Event Reports
For Global Astronomy Month 2020 (132): Inertia (5)
COSMIC INSIGNIA Astro-photo-poem (cosmopoem) by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe May 20, 2020, Bucharest My first large walk through the Youth Park after the relaxation of the pandemic restrictions. Some older cosmic... Read More...
Solar Observation
Our nearest star,the Sun is a huge globe of hot gas.This charged gas moves and generates powerful magnetic field.The sun's magnetic field goes through a cycle of approximately 11 years... Read More...
Changes
The world is changing. Covid isolates mankind. Yet, the stars endure. Image credit: George Hodan: Stars In The Night Sky A star filled night sky background texture Nikon D5100 1/60s,... Read More...
For Global Astronomy Month 2020 (131): Inertia (4)
Mercury preparing its greatest evening elongation, The Evening Star preparing to become the Morning Star, A sublime conjunction placed between Us and the Sun, so not very far. Today, still... Read More...
For Global Astronomy Month 2020 (130): Inertia (3)
KNIGHTS OF TIME Astro-photo-poem (cosmopoem) by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe May 23-30, 2020, Bucharest. Sometimes I forget that time passes, but the clouds, mysterious intermediaries between earth and sky, bring me... Read More...
For Global Astronomy Month 2020 (129): Inertia (2)
After the start of the “relaxation”, Valentin Grigore restarted his photo-expeditions out of town… Read More...
Using YouTube to maintain outreach activities during Covid-19
Dave ButteryI Normally I would be busy with me Mobile Planetarium, but since March I have had no work at all. To maintain my business presence in the workplace and to... Read More...
Annular Solar eclipse of June 21,2020
A solar eclipse occurs when the moon moves between the Sun and the Earth.There are three types of solar eclipses namely total,annular,partial.In an annular solar eclipse the moon covers the... Read More...
For Global Astronomy Month 2020 (128): Inertia (1)
In 1993-1997, an enthusiastic amateur astronomer, Danut Ionescu, realized a weekly astronomical radio broadcast, “Contact Astronomic - Radio Contact”. Then he emigrated from Romania to the southern hemisphere and established... Read More...
African Astronomical Society Eclipse Resources
Kai StaatsThe African Astronomical Society is coordinating a pan-African public campaign for the 21 June solar eclipse in collaboration with outreach experts across the continent. It has made several resources available... Read More...
Occultation of Venus by the Moon
4YINFO - today's Occultation of Venus by the Moon - attached my friend's picture (Herbert Raab - Kepler Observatory Linz - author of "Astrometrica" - http://www.astrometrica.at ) who used successfully... Read More...
ASTRONOMERS WITHOUT BORDERS DISTRIBUTING RECYCLED ECLIPSE VIEWING GLASSES IN ETHIOPIA FOR JUNE 21 SOLAR ECLIPSE
Zoe CheePRESS RELEASE ASTRONOMERS WITHOUT BORDERS DISTRIBUTING RECYCLED ECLIPSE VIEWING GLASSES IN ETHIOPIA FOR JUNE 21 SOLAR ECLIPSE Calabasas, CA, June 18, 2020: Astronomers Without Borders (AWB) is sending recycled eclipse-viewing... Read More...
The Universe
The universe of time and space is leading us on merry chase as schemes are parleyed to and fro in astro-physic quid pro quo of scientific relay race. We dwell... Read More...
THE EARTH 2.0
Somewhere among stars there's for sure a place we've been searching for so long since centuries We would like to call it our home or at least the sibling planet;... Read More...
AWB SERBIA - ASTRONOMY QUIZ ON JUNE 15th 2020
Every 15th of the month, except in April, AWB is organizing a small quiz featuring 10 questions on a selected astronomical subject. On June 15th, 2020, the 5th year with... Read More...
For Global Astronomy Month 2020 (127): Echo (21) - Back to Reality (3)
Refreshed by the travel through the GAM time tunnel (I wonder if this collection of poetical-historical-astronomical essays is a plausible demonstration that, more or less, every astronomer is a poet),... Read More...
For Global Astronomy Month 2020 (126): Echo (20) - Back to Reality (2)
Back to reality? Isn't this all a dream? Are we really here? Thank God we have the stars to guide our way or we would all be lost, together, traveling... Read More...
For Global Astronomy Month 2020 (125): Echo (19) - Back to Reality (1)
“The world really needs more ways for mankind to view the night sky. Perhaps they could put down their cell phones and do more stargazing. Wouldn't that be nice?” -Andee... Read More...
For Global Astronomy Month 2020 (124): Echo (18) - GAM Time Tunnel (17)
Giordano Bruno and Adrian Bruno Sonka, Two passionate astronomers in different times. But if Giordano was burned at the stake, Adrian should always remain awake. -Andrei Dorian Gheorghe- Adrian Bruno... Read More...
Lasting Light
When stars come out in dark of night they simply reappear in sight. How would they flee the light of day or to what reaches fly away? Appearances deceive indeed... Read More...
