AWB-GAM 2012 SunDay in Iran-around Saadat-Shahr & Sizdah Bedar

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Apr 08

2012

by Soheil Salimi

Sizdah Be-dar (also frequently stylized as "13 Bedar")is the name of a ceremony in Persian Culture.Sizdah is the Persian term for thirteen. Leaving the house on the Thirteenth Day of Farvardin (the first month of Iranian calendar), and joyfully spending the day outdoors have been a national tradition since ancient times in Iran. Most of the times Sizdah Bedar coincides with the first day of April, which is known as SunDay in GAM2012 programs .
The Team of Astronomical Society of Pasargad Sky (ASPS) and its Manager Asghar Kabiri who accomplished 2006 Amateur Outreach Award went to popular places outdoors in Saadat-shahr .

Saadat-shahr, located close to Pasargad World Heritage, is known as Astronomy Town in Iran because of a great passion to astronomy and skygazing among locals. Astronomy is involved with everyday life and culture here, after years of broad activity by the town's astronomy association which also resulted in Astronomical Society of Pacific 2006 Amateur Outreach Award for the main popularizer. Many wedding ceremonies end with star party and telescopic observation in Saadat-shahr; they occasionally switch off the whole town for their public observations; some taxis, doctors, and bakeries are free during the astronomy week; they have weekly sky report after the Friday's prayers in the main mosque; and they have named some of their streets after astronomers of the history. (Babak Tafreshi/Dreamview.net)
Mr Kabiri answered to children’s questions about our star,Sun.Children eagerly wanted to repeat their observations and were be happy when they got educational posters.
We spread educational posters during the day among families. Our SunDay activities continued with observing our closest neighbor in space after dark.  

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                                                              AWB-GAM 2012-SunDay
                                                    Astronomical Society of Pasargad Sky