Event Reports
Distance Learning Update in June
Kai StaatsAWB Update - June 6, 2020 “I am very happy to send many greetings and appreciation from my head teacher and staff members for the great support funds from... Read More...
Distance Learning in May
Kai StaatsAWB Update - Five weeks ago, on April 19, the MMAO Ambassadors held our regular weekly Skype call. And in that call we initiated a distance learning program, starting with... Read More...
Distance Learning with MMAO
Kai StaatsAWB Update - In April the MMAO Astronomy Teacher Ambassadors moved to distance learning. Read about their challenges and how they have engaged their students in the following posts: April... Read More...
The Biggest, Brightest Super Moon of 2020!
Kai StaatsAWB Update - April 7, 2020 Tonight we can enjoy the biggest, brightest super-moon of 2020! An introduction the event is provided at EarthSky Full moons at apogee, or farthest... Read More...
For Global Astronomy Month 2020 (123): Echo (17) - GAM Time Tunnel (16)
My time tunnel showed me that the most active astronomical complex (of those based on an optical planetarium and a small observatory) during GAM 2020 in Romania was in Bacau.... Read More...
For Global Astronomy Month 2020 (122): Echo (16) - GAM Time Tunnel (15)
Another halt in my GAM time tunnel was a recent initiative in Romania (regularized in 2017 by Sandu Val Cosmin)) on the Facebook platform, the Group of Amateur and Professional... Read More...
Making Water Rockets at Iboru, Tanzania
Kai StaatsAWB Update - In March Eliatosha Maleko, Astronomy Ambassador to MMAO and instructor at the Ilboru Primary School worked with his students to design, construct, and launch water rockets. Read... Read More...
Viewing the Moon for the Very First Time
Kai StaatsAWB Update - February 10, 2020 Astronomy Ambassador Zacharia Mujungu, instructor at Ailanga writes, “This past Saturday we enjoyed the first clear sky after an unusually long, long period of... Read More...
Physics educator Dan Heim attends MMAO Ambassadors call
Kai StaatsAWB Update - February 7, 2020 For more than 30 years retired high school physics instructor, amateur astronomer, and professional writer Dan Heim provided students with the joy of learning... Read More...
For Global Astronomy Month 2020 (121): Echo (15) - GAM Time Tunnel (14)
I jump rope over the trajectories of the heavenly bodies, invisible curved lines, the paths of universal harmony. Let your good luck be the compass of infinity, soul dreaming of... Read More...
For Global Astronomy Month 2020 (120): Echo (14) - GAM Time Tunnel (13)
“astronomy.ro” is a national on-line forum for astronomical debates, news and astrophotography, created in 2004 as a more visible alternative to the SARM e-list (founded in 2000 by the famous... Read More...
For Global Astronomy Month 2020 (119): Echo (13) - GAM Time Tunnel (12)
“Hey, you don't look normal. Did you fall in love With a star?” “I just fell from a comet To the Moon. So… something similar!” -Andrei Dorian Gheorghe- The Romanian... Read More...
Live Talk on Stellar Evolution
Bangladesh Astronomy Research Center (BARC) is going to organize an event on “Live Talk on Stellar Evolution.” This event is jointly organized by “Bangladesh Astronomy Research Center (BARC) and Tunisian... Read More...
For Global Astronomy Month 2020 (118): Echo (12) - GAM Time Tunnel (11)
A real lover of solar eclipses Is always ready for reaction, Even when not the Moon crosses the Sun, But the International Space Station. -Andrei Dorian Gheorghe- The Bucharestian engineer... Read More...
Asteroid Day 2020 Kick Star in Goyaz
Starting the work of the international day of Asteroid, the Gunstar team taking advantage of the partial eclipse of the moon, we organized a meeting at the traditional meeting point... Read More...
For Global Astronomy Month 2020 (117): Echo (11) - GAM Time Tunnel (10)
“Ode to the Star Lalande 21185 (inspired from Romanian folklore) By Mircea Pteancu When a neighbor lady sticks her head out the window, I see a beautiful, orange and luminous... Read More...
Celestial Swan
Swans are natural works of art in form and feature full of grace, famous for mating from the heart in lifelong marriage bond embrace. In legend the swan typifies serenity,... Read More...
For Global Astronomy Month 2020 (116): Echo (10) - GAM Time Tunnel (9)
It seems rather strange: Any piece of astro-information Makes me feel tender anxiety And enthusiastic vibration. -Andrei Dorian Gheorghe- Sorin Hotea is a teacher of mathematics in Sighetul Marmatiei (North... Read More...
For Global Astronomy Month 2020 (115): Echo (9) - GAM Time Tunnel (8)
“A planetarium is always a centre of astronomical infection.” -Dimitrie Olenici (senior astronomer at Suceava's Planetarium and Observatory)- My GAM time tunnel called me also to a tour of the... Read More...
