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by Christie McMonigal Global Astronomy Month is over for yet another year and what a party it was! This was the 10th year of GAM and we had some very special events to celebrate. We kicked off the celebrations with a video by our founder Mike Simmons about his personal reflections on 10 years of Global Astronomy Month. You can watch it here : We also presented two more exciting videos through our Facebook page; OpenSpace: Making Astronomy Accessible for All and Exploring the Stars of the Southern Hemisphere . These are both fantastic resources and we loved how many...
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Many New Yorkers and visitors to New York probably assume stargazing isn't exactly ideal or even possible, given the massively light-polluted skies over Manhattan. All the more reason to go out to a heavily populated spot, such as the High Line Park on Manhattan's West Side, set up some scopes with the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York, and engage the passers-by in some good old-fashioned astronomy outreach. What is outreach? Anytime you share some aspect of astronomy or observing the sky with friends, families, students, or the general public, you are doing astronomy outreach (1). How can you do...
Create Tactile Star Charts for everyone with this activity. You will end up not only with constellation models a blind person can understand, but also with a beautiful hand-made piece of craft. The procedure is simple: Plot the constellations, each on a scale to fit an 8½ X 11 inch frame. Look up the magnitudes and write them in. Draw in the outlines. These are the masks. Create charts, using the masks to place the stars with cross-hair accuracy. You will find many finished masks here . You can download the mask by clicking the PDF button to the right...
2019 marks 50 years since humanity first set foot on the moon. Watched the world over, this not-so-simple act, captured the imagination of countless millions for the decades to follow. But the stars have always held our hearts since the earliest of days. Indeed, their observation had vital importance to the daily running of many ancient and modern societies. None more ancient than the astronomical of the First Nations of Australia, The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, who over the last 65 000 years have utilised their growing knowledge of the stars and celestial mechanics to mark seasons, predict weather...
"The moment we put our eye to the telescope for the first time something magical happens very deep inside of us and life will never be the same again. " - Chuck Ruehle Astronomy, in my humble opinion, is the building block of human beings, literally. We know we are made of stardust, or at least some of us know this. We know our planet is part of the leftovers of the formation of our star, the Sun, or at least some of us know. We know our natural satellite, the Moon, was crucial for the emergence and evolution of...
