Event Reports
Astrotreasures in Romania (18)
This is the second material about Sarmizegetusa Regia, the main spiritual centre of the Geto-Dacians (ancestors of the Romanians), created in the 1st millennium BC. It was also their last... Read More...
Telescopes to Tanzania Brings People Together!
Kai StaatsAWB Update - November 21, 2019 A side benefit from my travels on behalf of the ELCA Generosity Project is opportunity to connect with people signifiant in my life. Susan... Read More...
Mercury Transit - Astronomy Outreach in New York City with the Amateur Astronomers Association (AAA)
What a beautiful, clear day for the Transit of Mercury which fell on Veterans Day, November 11, 2019! The Amateur Astronomers Association of New York did A LOT of outreach.... Read More...
2018 Christmas Star Party
Ferlin PedroWe held a successful Christmas star party last year (2018). There was approximately 40 guests who showed up, though at differing time intervals. We had four telescopes that were assembled,... Read More...
Summer 2019 Competition
Ferlin PedroOur 2019 summer astronomy competition focused on essays arguing for why Guyana needs to preserve its dark skies. Below is the winning essayist who won herself a 70mm refractor telescope... Read More...
Mercury Transit Viewing in Harare, Zimbabwe
Despite not having any telescope, high school students and teachers in Harare, Zimbabwe had one of the best treats this year on the 11th of November. The students and teachers... Read More...
Word Sounding
The sounds of words can shake the skies or cut an ego down to size, when knowing sages have their say of fitting words to seize the day, conveying wisdom... Read More...
Big Children for the Transit of Mercury
Location: Headquarters of the Urania Astronomical Association, National Children's Palace, Bucharest, Romania. Organizer: “Urania” (founder-president Dragos Brasov, with the help of Mihai Rauta). Special guests: representatives of the Bucharest Astroclub... Read More...
Variations on the Transit of Mercury
In 2019-11-11 the founder-president and two council members of the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy-SARM organized, with interesting photographic results, three centers for the observation of the Transit of... Read More...
Mercury passing through the sun
TariroOn 11september l logged in to see the mercury passing through the sun and i took 5.5 hrs for it to pass through the sun and l learnt that this... Read More...
Transit of Mercury - Ghana report
Two members of the Ghana Planetarium team shared the Transit of Mercury with close to 400 students and staff of Osu Presby Girls School in Accra! After a short talk... Read More...
Transit of Mercury - Ghana report
Two members of the Ghana Planetarium team shared the Transit of Mercury with close to 400 students and staff of Osu Presby Girls School in Accra! After a short talk... Read More...
A Transit Report
Clarence G. UnderwoodHI All, The transit is over, but not forgotten. I hosted an observation session in Esparto California. I had a turn out of 15 adults and four youths. The temperature... Read More...
Transit of Mercury Outreach at Shepard Park, Cocoa Beach Florida
I picked Shepard Park in Cocoa Beach as a sidewalk astronomy outreach place to honor Alan Shepard, Mercury program astronaut and first American in space, as well as the opportunity... Read More...
Mercury Transit from Pensacola
We had clear skies for most of the event at the Pensacola State Planetarium. About 60 guests turned out. Our report on Facebook is at: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.10156972406084302&type=3 Read More...
Transit of Mercury observed in Campos dos Goytacazes- Brazil
Marcelo de Oliveira SouzaTransit of Mercury observed in Campos dos Goytacazes- Brazil The team of the Louis Cruls Astronomy Club observed the Transit of Mercury on November 11, 2019, in the city of... Read More...
No Transit of Mercury - event in Linz Austria, but ......
Unfortunately due to bad weather conditions and dense fog we had to cancel our planned public viewing event at our local Johannes Kepler observatory. So we could only offer some... Read More...
ELSEWHERE
Can we go elsewhere if we still need to struggle with gravity? It keeps us tightly in its embraces, so we found escape velocity It requires, however, a lot of... Read More...
Far and Near
Wonders of the world abound on our earthly stomping ground, in the seven seas profound, midst the heavens round us wound. Images from reaches vast by astronomers amassed show in... Read More...
The Transit of Mercury
With the kids we watched Mercury transit. during transit, we saw a small black dot traveling through the face of the sun. Read More...
