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Dec 12
2011
Bring Back the Moon!
A wonderful sight you don't want to miss! The lunar eclipse last December 10 is a beauty. According to myths the moon was eaten by a snake, thus people shall chant "Bring back the moon!" But astronomers do know the answer why this incredible phenomenon takes place. Read More...
Dec 12
2011
Eyes on the Sky: Dec 12 thru Dec 19
by 
David Fuller
David FullerI've been making night sky videos to get more beginners to astronomy familiar with the night sky for about a year now. I present this in a way that most anyone, anywhere - including those living in light polluted cities and suburbs - can find objects to see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsqrNpln8AM My goal with these is to educate others about the night sky, while simultaneously educating about light pollution reduction. That's the biggest issues I see on the horizon for amateur astronomers, and although there have been a few success stories, the proliferation of night-time outdoor lighting continues, mostly unabated. With these... Read More...
Dec 07
2011
Telescopes To Tanzania -- The Rest of the Story
by Chuck Ruehle
Chuck RuehleB irika !!! That’s the Swahili word used by teachers, students, and community members to name the teapot asterism in Sagittarius. With dark skies (magnitude 7 on the Great World Wide Star Count chart) it was great fun finding deep sky objects during a month-long teaching experience in northern Tanzania. In October I returned to Africa for a second year of teaching astronomy, optics and light. I shared my love of astronomy and left almost 250 pounds of equipment and resources with five secondary and two elementary schools on Mt. Meru (4,566 meters). Each of the seven schools received either... Read More...
Dec 05
2011
Telescopes to Tanzania
by Chuck Ruehle
Chuck RuehleInitial report from Chuck Ruehle and Telescopes to Tanzania project: November 9, 2011 The 2011 Telescopes to Tanzania trip was from October 4 to October 27 th . Upon arrival on the 5 th of October , Tareto Nassari and Pastor Fredrick Pallangyo greeted me at the airport and took me to the Guest House in Usa River. I spent the night there and collected up the resources that Mama was keeping for me. Last June, the Our Saviors, Oconomowoc and Fox point delegations carried about 125 pounds of equipment in for me. The Vernon delegation (arriving on October 6... Read More...
Dec 05
2011
Total Lunar Eclipse of 10th December 2011
A total lunar eclipse will take place on December 10, 2011. It will be the second of two total lunar eclipses in 2011, the first having occurred on June 15. Visibility : It will be visible from all of Asia and Australia, seen as rising over eastern Europe, and setting o ver northwest North America. In the Philippines, the lunar eclipse is seen visible just after sunset. We are Waiting for the next Total Lunar Eclipse of 10th December. Our organization- SWAN (Sky Watchers Association of North Bengal) will show the event LIVE through its own Webcast Channel www.livestream.com/swansiliguri and... Read More...
Dec 02
2011
New article written and published
My latest column is about Jupiter. (But it's in french). Find me on many websites, including www.montcosmos.com under the "publications" tab. Read More...
Nov 15
2011
Autobiography:
heidari-14 April 1989- is a iran-born researcher who developed the theory of computational geometry in GIS.in 2002-2008 he was a Amateur Astronomer,also he was elite student in Mathematics. He was admitted to the engineering department of the University of Tehran in 2008,arguably the best technical school in his home country.During the time,he was ranked one and behind this dues also accomplished several research on CG.Near the beginning of his education, heidari thought that old fields and methods of engineering was no longer enough to reconcile Intelligence with his ability.This led to the development of his ideas and researchs. He realized,... Read More...
Oct 26
2011
BwB - Jupiter is introduced to Japanese.
I made a website intrducing BwB - Jupier to Japanese. http://sites.google.com/site/bwbjup2011/ Read More...
Oct 26
2011
BwB - Jupiter is introduces to Japanese
I made a Website introducing BwB - Jupiter (29 Oct. 2011) to Japanese. http://sites.google.com/site/bwbjup2011/ Read More...
Oct 25
2011
Nacht van de Nacht / Night of the Night
On Saturday October 29, 2011 we celebrate reverting to Winter Time by organising the " Nacht van de Nacht ." The nationwide website can be found at: http://nachtvandenacht.nl In Arnhem we join forces with local environmental groups and organise a big event in Sonsbeek Park , close to the central train station. There will be all kinds of night related activities, among them a bunch of telescopes from the volunteers of Sterrenwacht Presik heaven . Do not let clouds deter you: there are various interesting presentations in the Sonsbeek Park Visitors Centre. The event lasts from 7 pm till 11... Read More...
Oct 21
2011
1. digital TWAN-exhibition in Linz / AUSTRIA
To all people living in Austria, or visiting Austria I strongly recommend a stop at Ars Electronica Center (AEC- http://www.aec.at ). On 6th of October 2011 the first digital TWAN (The World At Night) - exhibition has opened. http://www.twanight.org/newTWAN/news.asp?newsID=6067 The exhibition at the Ars Electronica Center is the first purely digital presentation of this project, a display of breathtaking photographs and videos of beautiful and historically interesting places all over the world. Shot against the night sky with stars and planets as their backdrop, these images show the world from a truly extraordinary perspective. More pictures of the opening and... Read More...
Oct 12
2011
1. digital TWAN-exhibition opening in Linz/AUSTRIA
1. digital TWAN-exhibition opened on 6.10. 2011in Linz/AUSTRIA for more pictures & infos please use following link: http://www.sternwarte.at/LAG-AWB/TWAN_OPENING.html Best regards Joe Read More...
Oct 05
2011
Top TV Show 'Cosmos' on the Big Screen - October 12th
'Cosmos' on the Big Screen This may be the closest you'll ever get to being on the Planet Mars. See “Blues for a Red Planet”, an episode of the wildly-popular 1980 TV science series ‘Cosmos' hosted by Carl Sagan and presented by JPL Mars Rover Team Lead, Scott Maxwell. Scott will follow the epic episode with some slides and clips of Mars as seen from the Rovers that he commands here on earth. On stage will be the Mars Exploration Rover which will maneuver over and around volunteers from the audience. The kids are going to love it. The Rover... Read More...
Oct 03
2011
The August 2011 Meteors as observed by the Amateur Radio Astronomers of the Michelbach observatory
By Fritz Lensch, OE3 FLB. This article was also published in “Der Sternbote” 8/2011 As the Perseids were not well observable visually this year – due to the full moon – we decided to count the meteors using our radio telescope. The principle is based on Radar, but with spatially separated emitters and receivers (so called forward scattering). Detecting radio reflections of meteors requires a powerful emitter located approximately 300 to 1000 km away sending with high power in the direction of the meteors. We used the station GRAVES ( http://www.satellitenwelt.de/spaceradar.htm#GRAVES ), which is a French space surveillance system used... Read More...
Sep 29
2011
A Giant Spot
Wow, a new active region emerged at the limb of the Sun, and it exploded with fierce emotion, sending its charged particles toward our Home. And the people around the poles celebrated when a glorious celestial fireworks showed above them, and tons of films and RAM where used, rolled and saved, while the Auroras danced, arched and played for them. It was a giant sunspot, 1302 it was named and it was as large and big as four Earths; with its energetic dark eye looking at us, menacing, powerful, and barely tamed. As it crossed the disc of the Sun... Read More...
Sep 23
2011
Global Astronomy Month
by Grace Wyatt
Members of the Harford County Astronomical Society, Bel Air, MD, had planned to set up telescopes and binoculars for a public viewing session. Since it was completely clouded out, we had indoor presentations and a tour of our observatory located at Harford Community College, Bel Air, MD. Even though the weather precluded a viewing session, we still had 21 visitors for the night and 12 club members. We gave out Sun Fact Sheets, Moon maps with moon fact sheets, NASA stickers, Kepler Bookmarks, Stereo Cards, EPOXI cards, Year of Solar System fact sheets, Citizen Scientist sheets and star charts. We... Read More...
Sep 23
2011
Global Astronomy Month
by Grace Wyatt
On April 17, 2011, from 11 AM to 4 PM members of Harford County Astronomical Society, Bel Air, MD had a display set up at a local Earth Day event. Our focus for the day was Light Pollution and way to combat the issue. We gave out Good Neighbor Lighting materials to adults and gave children light pollution coloring sheets as well as space stickers to remind them to turn off lights so we can see the night sky. We also gave out Hubble lithos, Year of the Solar System information, comet bookmarks, EPOXI mission postcards, MESSENGER Mission stickers, NASA... Read More...
Sep 21
2011
Cocooned
Cocooned Awakening in the dawn of light Silence fades away Warmth greets a new day Cocooned we walk out to a cliff by the sea Gulls soar to lofty heights All that we are has taught reverence For the truth, the virtue of flight We aspire to gain the lofty heights Then, not all at once We change The lofty heights are no more Science is not in heaven It is all around us. Tb0511 Read More...
Sep 01
2011
Astronomical activity in Krusevac, Serbia for August 2011
by 
Zoran Tomić
Zoran TomićIn the future I will write on this blog monthly reports on activities implemented in Serbia (my hometown Krusevac) in order to promote astronomy and science. In August we organized observation of meteor Perseid shower on Bagdala hill in the city. This is the darkest part within the city where it can be seen the night sky, and that light pollution does not affect the experience too much. The observations were on 12th and 13th August. There were about 18 observers and we have seen for both nights over 20 meteors in total. From the equipment we used refractor telescope... Read More...
Aug 04
2011
10th Annual astronomical camp “Letenka” in Serbia - report
by Zoran Tomić
Zoran TomićThis year's International Astronomical Camp “Letenka”, which is already a traditional annual event in the Southeastern Europe, was held from 21 st to 24 th of July. This was the 10 th time the camp was held and as one of the organizers, Aleksandar Zorkić, editor-in-chief of “Astronomski Magazin”, an astronomy magazine and web-site, said that next year's camp is also going to be jubilee 10 th . Everyone had great expectations from this camp, especially concerning the program. Let me say, here at the beginning, that the camp was excellently organized and that this year's organization was much better... Read More...
Aug 01
2011
August in the Sky and Observers.
Dear Friends! In August, this circulating in the Sky Blog Observers and the following issue: The Sky in the month - August 2011. link: http://skyandobservers.blogspot.com/2011/08/o-ceu-do-mes-agosto-2011.html Synopsis: Saturn is still in good visibility on the celestial sphere, even with its decline has occurred on first quarter of the night. The Opposition of Neptune in 2011. link: http://skyandobservers.blogspot.com/2011/07/oposicao-de-netuno-em-2011.htm l Synopsis: We are close to their opposition will occur on May 22. The Asteroids (4) Vesta, (48) Doris, and 27 (Euterpe) Links: http://skyandobservers.blogspot.com/2011/08/o-asteroide-48-doris-em-2011.html , http://skyandobservers.blogspot.com/2011/08/o-asteroide-27-euterpe-em-2011.html , http://skyandobservers.blogspot.com/2011/08/o-asteroide-4-vesta-em-2011.html . Synopsis: Although (4) Vesta is receiving the visit of the Dawn spacecraft, their observations are... Read More...
Jul 25
2011
GAM-Tour 2011 & TWAN-AUSTRIA-TOUR
HI friends, following some links to share: Reports GAM 2011: http://www.sternwarte.at/LAG-AWB/GAM2011_activities.html Report TWAN Austria Tour http://www.sternwarte.at/LAG-AWB/Tour.html Regards Joe Read More...
Jul 16
2011
GAM 2011 Report
by 
harbaoui
harbaouiEverybody knows about the drastic changes that took place in Tunisia during the last months of this year and especially at the political and security level. However, with the strong will of amateur astronomers, members of Astronomy and Space Club Sidi Bourouis worked hard on organizing a scientific activity that is worth being part of activities related to “International Astronomy Month”. April 2, 2011 Amateur astronomers organized a conference that dealt with problems of light pollution, nocturne vision, and the accompanying nocturne animals such as insects, bats, and owls. The conference introduced by Mr. Girard Sirven, member of National Association... Read More...
Jul 05
2011
Total lunar eclipse on June 15, 2011
Moon-party in Arnhem, the Netherlands On the 15th of June 2011 we observed a total lunar eclipse from the Arnhrem city park "Hoogte 80". Volunteers of Sterrenwacht Presik heaven put up six telescopes and gave explanations to the audience and interviews to several journalists. More than sixty people turned up to see a beautiful dark red Moon rise over the skyline of Arnhem. We were lucky with the weather: many places in the Netherlands were cloudy, but we could see the full event from 10 pm till midnight without interruption! The photo above was taken a few minutes after totality... Read More...
Jul 01
2011
This months in the Sky and Observers.
Dear friends! This month, I can not stop publishing the blog and Sky Observers, the interesting themes: The Sky in July 2011. link: http://skyandobservers.blogspot.com/2011/06/o-ceu-do-mes-julho-2011.html Preview: This month is still visible in the sky night the planet Saturn, displaying his majestic ring and his entourage of moons, although other planets can be viewed in the early morning hours. The sunlight Occultation of Mars in 2011. link: http://skyandobservers.blogspot.com/2011/06/ocultacao-diurna-de-marte-em-2011.html Preview: Even if it is observable only a small part of South America (Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Ecuador and Peru), so even under intense sunlight, is ideal observers in these regions seek the... Read More...
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