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

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Apr 26

2019

by Johannes Stübler

I got an invitation to "Thaqib Astronomy Association" and had the pleasure to meet this very active astronomy group in Rasht. Rasht is the center of Guilan province in the north of Iran, the southern of Caspian sea.

The Association's building is situated in Mellat Park. It's a well equipped astronomycenter for teaching astronomy.

Mrs. Javid is the founder and the head of this Association.  In cooperation with Mrs. Jahandar she is doing public outreach events, for the people of  Rusht and the whole province, they give astronomy courses for children and for teachers and do many more. For example the Association established several sundials in the city in cooperation with Dr. Bagheri from Theran, a famous historian of mathematics & astronomy. Thereby they are supported by many active members of their Astronomy Association.

They organized there an event on April 25th, where I had the pleasure to give my talk about "10 years of Global Astronomy Month, 100 years of IAU and 400 years of 3rd Kepler Law". Besides representatives from local government, which support Mrs. Javid's work, Dr. Bagheri from Tehran was one of the guests.

AWB's message, "One People, One Sky" delighted all people here. "Thaqib Astronomy Association" is willing to support the goals and ideas of AWB in the future. Together with the astronomy association in Busher they will join the next GAM and they will collaborate in supporting AWB's ideas.

Of course, again I had the pleasure to hand out one of my special Austrian commemorative stamps made of real meteor-dust.

After my lecture we made, of course a group picture. Dr. Bagheri is the man on the left side.

Again we had the pleasure to be guest of a local family - Iranian people are so hospitable - really unbelieveable. Mr. & Mrs. Javid have been our hosts during our stay in Rusht - many thanks !

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
http://www.astronomerswithoutborders.org
TWAN-Austria event coordinator
http://www.twanight.org
National Organizer Sidewalk Astronomers
http://www.sidewalkastronomers.us
Member of LAG - Astronomical Society of Linz
http://www.sternwarte.at
Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society
http://www.ras.org.uk/
Charter member of A4E - Astronomy for Education
http://www.virtuelleschule.at/a4e
Associate of the IAU Division Commission C2
http://iau.org/administration/membership/associate/15957/
Consulter - Project "Keplarium"
http://johannes_stuebler.public1.linz.at/keplarium/keplarium_en.html
About me:
http://johannes_stuebler.public1.linz.at/autor.html
Owner of Austrian Polarstern-Prize 2017
http://www.astronomerswithoutborders.org/member-reports/3844-yuris-night-2017-vienna.html
400-year-anniversary 3rd Kepler-Law
http://johannes_stuebler.public1.linz.at/kepler_anniversary.html
Minor Planet JoeStubler:
https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=276568