First InOMN-Event in Austria

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Oct 06

2019

by Johannes Stübler

I am happy to tell that we startet this year our first InOMN Event here in Linz at our little public observatory of our astronomy association - Kepler Sternwarte Linz. Following the appeal of Jessica Santascoy, our AWB-Community Engagement Manager, finally we registered this year an event to celebrate the moon together with many people around the globe. It was a great success despite we had mostly bad weather. Nevertheless we had some holes in the cloud cover and we could give some nice live-views from the moon to our visitors. Additionally to our main instrument for visual observations we used a littel videocam on our refractor to show the moon (and planets) to the people as much as possible at the same time. For the kids we had some rocket-starts and it was a big pleasure for all. I am sure we could inspire many new people for spaceflight and astronomy. We had about 200 visitors during this night.  Following some images of our event.

Warm greetings from Kepler-Town Linz