Event Reports

May 14
2016

Watching Mercury Transit - rare celestial event.

by AP RADHAKRISHNA

We at St.Philomena College, Puttur, affiliated to Mangalore University, India, set up our 6 inch reflecting type astronomical telescope and projected the Sun on white board and observed the rare... Read More...

May 13
2016

Mercury Transit - Public Viewing in Laxenburg

On 9th May 2016 we organized an event in the beautiful Schlosspark Laxenburg near Vienna. All visitors from the Schlosspark were invited to join and take a closer look through... Read More...

May 13
2016

Mercury Transit - Public Viewing

Like many others in Austria we offered to visitors and walkers in our local town park a look to the Mercury transit on 9th May 2016. We had fine weather... Read More...

May 13
2016

Mercury transit

We had a very nice weather, contrary to expectations, and we could see from Ramillies the entry of Mercury within the Sun's disk. We also had the visit of a... Read More...

May 12
2016

Mercury Transit 2016

Hello everybody, Here in Belgium, we had a clear sky during the 3 first hours of transit, with a quality of the sky transparency of 9/10. Contacts 1 & 2... Read More...

May 12
2016

AWB - Trinidad and Tobago Astronomical Society - GAM2016 Conclusion

In observation of Global Astronomy Month 2016, #GAM2016 , the Trinidad and Tobago Astronomical Society (TTAS) created a Online Facebook Event Page entitled "The Past and Present of Astronomy". For... Read More...

May 12
2016

Mercury Transit 2016

We ( Northeastern College Astronomical Society) had glorious weather for the morning session, here in Trinidad ( in west indies). First telescope was set up by 7am and the ingress... Read More...

May 11
2016

Transit of Mercury 05.09.16

Transit of Mercury 05.09.16 it through our channel Youtube Foundation, we were able to transmit live transit to many places in Argentina where weather conditions did not permit could watch... Read More...

May 06
2016

Malaysia GAM2016 : Youngster Interest with Space Exploration Increase with Tech Approach.

I believe our young generation's interest towards space exploration will increase with technology enhanced approaches in teaching STEAM. In celebrating Global Astronomy Month April 2016, Universe Awareness Malaysia had organized... Read More...

May 04
2016

Mercury Trnsit

My Name is Mugatwala Ronish. I am HSC student. In India People Have Lack Knowledge About Astronomical Events, on 9th May,2016 Biggest Astronomical Event is Mercury Trnsit So We Can... Read More...

Apr 30
2016

AWB-Serbia - CONCERT FOR THE END OF GAM 2016 - SERBIA

Theme of the Concert: "Where no man has gone before". It can be seen here: https://www.facebook.com/Astronomi-bez-granica-217714985242474/ Musician Sasha Gracanin com posed specially for AWB. www.facebook.com/sashashadowman/ ASCAP registered. Read More...

Apr 30
2016

AWB-Serbia - GAM 2016. - GAM THEME ON APRIL 28th: Astropoetry

The task was ti write some astropoetry. We had 16 participants. The most beautiful attachments are sent by: Sasa Milosavljevic, Aleksandar Racin. The best works can be seen below. Read More...

Apr 30
2016

AWB-Serbia - GAM 2016. - GAM THEME ON APRIL 24th: Sun day

The task was to to photograph or draw Sun. We had 24 participants. The most beautiful attachments are sent by: Mirko Stankovic, Ruzica Mitic, Katarina Blazic, Ivica Baskin, Vlatko Jovanovski.... Read More...

Apr 30
2016

AWB-Serbia - GAM 2016. - GAM THEME ON APRIL 20th: Night sky photography

The task was to make photos of night sky with some motive from the Earth. We had 29 participants. The most beautiful attachments are sent by: Jovan, Vukicevic, Sasa Milosavljevic,... Read More...

Apr 30
2016

AWB-Serbia - GAM 2016. - GAM THEME ON APRIL 16th: Global Star Party

The task was to make the model of star, planet, rocket, etc... We had 14 participants. The most beautiful attachments are sent by: Jovica Blazic, Katarina Blazic, Aleksandar Racin. The... Read More...

Apr 30
2016

AWB-Serbia - GAM 2016. - GAM THEME ON APRIL 10th: Ares vs Antares

The task was to photograph or draw one of the -mars & Antares. We had 47 participants. The most beautiful attachments are sent by: Mirko Stankovic, Katarina Blazic, Jovan Dedic,... Read More...

Apr 30
2016

AWB-Serbia - GAM 2016. - GAM THEME ON APRIL 4th: Messier Marathon

The task was to photograph or draw one of the Mesier objects. We had 136 participants. The most beautiful attachments are sent by: Jana Maric (M1), Milo Babic (M51), Stefan... Read More...

Apr 30
2016

Sun and Spring Forest

On Saturday, April 16, we conducted together with the Association „Die Spur“, the event "Sun and Spring Forest" for children in the age from 6 - 10 years in Vienna.... Read More...

Apr 29
2016

AstroSoc India's Outreach Program in Celebration of GAM-2016

As part of GAM clebrations, AstroSoc India decided to have outreach programms at remote villages to raise awareness of Astronomy and importance of dark skies among Govt. school students. These... Read More...

Apr 29
2016

New photo-story from Astronomía sin Fronteras

Marcia Deocares was enjoying a great evening in Trevelin, a small town by the Andes in central Patagonia (Argentina). Young gauchos were showing their skills at horse riding (left) before... Read More...