Yuri's Night 2017 - Vienna

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Apr 14

2017

by Johannes Stübler

On 12th of April 2017, as every year since 2009, the local Viennese-Association-"Der ORION" celebrated Yuri's Night. Together with the "Austrian Space Forum" (OEWF) and partners from space science & industry. The accompanying programm included top-class lectures and a visit from an femal Italian ISS astronaut - Samantha Cristoforetti - and the yearly awards show "Polarsternpreis" (Polarstarprize) given to people who enthuse people for space, space travel, space science & astronomy.

Following some photographic impressions of this great evening in the NHM (Natur Historisches Museum):

Andreas Weise (raumfahrer.net) telling about a forgetten Russian Cosmonaut

Mag. Christa Bernert from the Austrian government department presenting a video from fti-remixed, a platform for technolgy, research and innovation for young people

Dr. Gudrun Wanner from "Max Planck- Albert Einstein Institute" in Hannover, gave a fascinating talk about gravitational waves.

Mag. Monika Fischer (OEWF) interviewed ISS-astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti

Samantha delivered 3 "TiuTerra-crystals", which have been in the space station for 6 month, back to OEWF. This TiuTerra-crystals are a special project from OEWF in collaboration with Swarovski.

As you can see - I had this year's pleasure and honor to get the "Polarsternpreis 2017" handed out by DI Dr. Norbert Frischauf (managing committee OEWF)

And the following picture shows 2 AWB-NCs at Yuri's Night.  I had the pleasure to meet DI Dr. Liliana Gracanin, AWB-National Coordinator from Serbia, who is working at the Vienna Institute of Astronomy. She took part in this evening event and it was a great surprise and pleasure for us to meet here :-)

Best regards

Joe

Johannes Stübler

 J O H A N N E S   S T U E B L E R
Ambassador and National Coordinator AUSTRIA
of Astronomers Without Borders - AWB
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TWAN-Austria event coordinator
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National Organizer Sidewalk Astronomers
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Member of LAG - Astronomical Society of Linz
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Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Charter member of A4E - Astronomy for Education
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Associate of the IAU Division Commission C2
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Consulter - Project "Keplarium"
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