10 years anniversary of Global Astronomy Month - long distant car trip

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Apr 06

2019

by Johannes Stübler

To celebrate 10 years of GAM I am doing again a long distant trip with my car, similar to my first GAM-trip 2010 to Turkey, Syria and Jordan. My road trip during GAM2019 led me already from Austria to Iran. It's my personal attempt to point the way, to light a beacon of hope, to cherish unshakable on the idea of a world without borders, to keep alive the idea and message of “One People, One Sky“. Not only saying, but doing this message, crossing borders, breaking down frontiers, old ones and new ones. It's again a journey back to the cradles of science and astronomy and a kind of curtsey to the historic achivements coming from the middle east and which have inseminated the rest of the science world.

Following some first picts of my trip:

The "AWB-car" at Maragheh observatory.

On my trips I always try to meet people, connected to the stars and astronomy, in person.

So on the way to Iran I met Tunc Tecel the dedicated Turkish TWAN-photographer, and we spent a wonderful night under the starry sky of his home mountains.

Next I will go to Shiraz, meeting some people at Biruni-Observatory, where I will give a little talk about 10 years of GAM, 100 Years of IAU and my work.

Best regards
Joe