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AWB - Trinidad and Tobago Astronomical Society - GAM2016 Conclusion

Vindra Khanai

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In observation of Global Astronomy Month 2016, #GAM2016, the Trinidad and Tobago Astronomical Society (TTAS) created a Online Facebook Event Page entitled "The Past and Present of Astronomy".

For each day in the month of April, a post was made in the public group event to re-illuminate some of the history of astronomy, highlighting some of the influential persons in astronomy.

For the online event page, 30 posts were made and all can be seen at https://www.facebook.com/events/520045464870457/.

Names and blurbs posted included:

Day 1 - Galileo Galilei
Day 2 - Albert Einstein
Day 3 - Ejnar Hertzsprung and Henry Russell
Day 4 - Edmond Halley
Day 5 - John Flamsteed
Day 6 - Johann Bayer
Day 7 - Stephen Hawking
Day 8 - Charles Messier
Day 9 - Edwin Powell Hubble
Day 10 - Johannes Kepler
Day 11 - Tycho Brahe
Day 12 - William Herschel
Day 13 - Isaac Newton
Day 14 - Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Day 15 - Maria Mitchell
Day 16 - Carl Sagan
Day 17 - Claudius Ptolemy
Day 18 - Fritz Zwicky
Day 19 - Frank Drake
Day 20 - Annie Jump Cannon
Day 21 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Day 22 - Clyde Tombaugh
Day 23 - Jan Oort
Day 24 - Arthur Eddington
Day 25 - Giovanni Cassini
Day 26 - Nicolaus Copernicus
Day 27 - Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson
Day 28 - George Gamow
Day 29 - Maura Imbert
Day 30 - Shirin Haque

Freely available online articles provided the base text for each of the posts, and all the source articles were referenced. The last two persons in the list have made invaluable contributions to our astronomy locally and regionally (in Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean) and continue to do so.

Daily posts were made by TTAS members: Yogi Bassie, Nirmala Singh, Geeta Boodansingh, Mei-Gui, and Vindra Khanai.

Much thanks for allowing us to participate in your GAM and looking forward to more in the future.

Best regards,

Vindra

On behalf of the Trinidad and Tobago Astronomical Society

https://www.facebook.com/groups/ttastrosociety/

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Nirmala Singh
12 May 2016
* waves*
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Vindra Khanai
12 May 2016
Any write-up on the Mercury transit yet ?
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Vindra Khanai
12 May 2016
Ah, I just saw it. Very nice !
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Nirmala Singh
14 May 2016
looks like we posted reports at nearly the same time.
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