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May 14
2016
Watching Mercury Transit - rare celestial event.
by 
AP RADHAKRISHNA
AP RADHAKRISHNAWe at St.Philomena College, Puttur, affiliated to Mangalore University, India, set up our 6 inch reflecting type astronomical telescope and projected the Sun on white board and observed the rare celestial event - Mercury Transit on 9th of May from 4.45 pm onwards. we could see the "SUN SPOT" on the image of the sun and then a black dot - the mercury and its transition - as time pass. Enthusiasts - teachers, students & general public - gathered on that hot sunny evening time to watch the celestial event. Great day. Transit of Mercury Read More...
May 13
2016
Mercury Transit 2016 at Planetarium Science Centre, Ghana
We held a Transit of Mercury viewing session using a Solarscope (simple projection device). We were lucky with clear skies all day, and despite our “low-tech” equipment, could make out a large irregularly-shaped sunspot, and the planet Mercury, clearly much darker and with a more definite circular shape compared to the sunspot. We had planned to use mirror projection as another way to view the transit (we had used this very successfully during the partial eclipse of November 2013) but on this occasion it was difficult to get a large enough and clear enough image. The light winds also made... Read More...
May 13
2016
Mercury Transit - Public Viewing in Laxenburg
On 9th May 2016 we organized an event in the beautiful Schlosspark Laxenburg near Vienna. All visitors from the Schlosspark were invited to join and take a closer look through our telescopes and observe this rare event. A lot of interested people took the chance and informed themselves and observed the Mercury transit with us. We also had a lot of info material and posters we could use to explain the Mercury transit. Fortunately we had a really beautiful weather and a clear sky. Even a local TV reporter team joined us for a report and an interview. We made... Read More...
May 13
2016
Mercury Transit - Public Viewing
Like many others in Austria we offered to visitors and walkers in our local town park a look to the Mercury transit on 9th May 2016. We had fine weather and we showed at our local Johannes-Kepler-Observatory the sun in white light and h-alpha light. Even at our outpost outside the city of Linz we had a little observing team showing this event to people of the neighborhood.Many people thought they can look to Mercury using sun eclipse glasses. They have been surprised that Mercury was so small and so they have been happy to see our smallest planet crossing... Read More...
May 13
2016
Mercury transit
by 
Raoul Lannoy
Raoul LannoyWe had a very nice weather, contrary to expectations, and we could see from Ramillies the entry of Mercury within the Sun's disk. We also had the visit of a journalist from Le Soir newspaper. We were about 25 persons, also bikers who passed by our site..And I got sun burned. We noticed how difficult it is to take a picture with a H-alpha filter. But we enjoyed it all. Read More...
May 13
2016
2016- Transit of Mercury
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ASAFILE
ASAFILEOn May 2016, teachers and students from a public university and shool teachers in León, Nicaragua received talk about the transit of Mercury. Weather helped us with clear skies so afterwards they enjoyed to observed the Transit by themselves. ASAFILE members worked with the authorities of the University to explained to assitants of the talk about the causes of the transit, how often the transit occurs during this century, the double sunrise in the planet and its main characteristics. Emilio Zuniga Photos by: Orlando Cahvez Esquivel Read More...
May 12
2016
Mercury Transit 2016
Hello everybody, Here in Belgium, we had a clear sky during the 3 first hours of transit, with a quality of the sky transparency of 9/10. Contacts 1 & 2 could be observed, and pictures were taken. Unfortunately, the sky then come quickly to be cloudy, and observations were definitively not possible. By tradition, the weather in Belgium is against any observation when something special is to observe, something like that Scottish-people well known ... So this time, it was a little different! I was in contact with my friend Michel Deconninck (Aquarellia) to prepare this event, and were very... Read More...
May 12
2016
AWB - Trinidad and Tobago Astronomical Society - GAM2016 Conclusion
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 o nline 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... Read More...
May 12
2016
Mercury Transit 2016
We ( Northeastern College Astronomical Society) had glorious weather for the morning session, here in Trinidad ( in west indies). First telescope was set up by 7am and the ingress was viewed. A science organisation ( NIHERST) joined us with their Coranado Solar Telescopes. Over the course of the morning more than 230 persons ( mainly students) viewed Mercury's progress across the sun. From one of the Personal Solar Telescopes we could easily see prominances erupt from the sun's surface. By Lunch clouds rolled in and they decided to stay. It was a fantastic event and very well appreciated by... Read More...
May 12
2016
Mercury Transit under clouds
We had a terrible bad weather here in Provence, this is really not common for the saison. At first we visit 4 class of the school of the village of Riez-la-Romaine. We can show them the phenomenon via the SIDC (Solar Influence Data Center) internet site, then we can show nice satellite views in real time. One hundred students were happy to receive answers to an astronomical number of questions. The main message from us was that this kind of transit is used with other stars, by the professionals, to find exoplanets. They like that! After the school we had... Read More...
May 12
2016
Mars Contest
Since i read about Mars Contest, i watch during clear nights, noticed marsmove east above Antares, Then West Read More...
May 12
2016
Mercury tranzits from Azerbaijan.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1026132444102440.1073741848.132303743485319&type=3 Read More...
May 12
2016
MERCURY TRANSIT ON MAY 16th 2016.
We had a wonderful sunny day. Picture was taken on the University Observatory of Vienna, Austria. Read More...
May 11
2016
Transit of Mercury 05.09.16
Transit of Mercury 05.09.16 it through our channel Youtube Foundation, we were able to transmit live transit to many places in Argentina where weather conditions did not permit could watch the event. Read More...
May 11
2016
Astronomy photos taken from August 2015 - May 2016
A collection of Astronomy images taken from August 2015 - May 2016. This video is an ongoing project, with more images to be added as they are captures. Six images in this video were taken in light polluted skies and will be replaced with images from dark skies. For best experience watch this video in 1080p mode on a large screen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwtPd-FtWeY Read More...
May 10
2016
Mercury transit across the solar disk observations in Omsk
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Leus Elena
Leus ElenaMay 9 Omsk planetarium for astronomy enthusiasts and residents organized observations of Mercury's transit across the solar disk. On the observation platform worked 7 telescopes. Two of the projected image of the Sun and Mercury on the background screens. Four were equipped with special filters. The most popular Coronado telescope, in which besides the main "active characters" you could see the stunning beauty of the prominences Read More...
May 10
2016
Tránsito de Mercurio - Mayo 9, 2016
En la mañana del 9 de mayo del 2016, se presentía un ánimo de observación generalizada hacia el Sol algo timido debido a las constantes nubes que se presentaba en el entorno. Ya se presentaba avisos del tránsito de Mercurio en todos los medios noticiosos y prensa, evento que ocure 13 veces cada 100 años. Astrónomos y Astrofotógrafos Aficionados en todo el hemisferio se preparaban desde temprano sus equipos para poder observar y capturar ese evento único. En San Juan Puerto Rico, yo estaba haciendo lo propio, preparando mi camara Nikon Coolpix P500, el tripode y el filtro solar Seymor... Read More...
May 09
2016
Transit of Mercury - Sidewalk Astronomy - May 9
After a severe thunderstorm, clouds dispersed over Ramnicu Valcea, Romania and allowed us to observe the transit of Mercury across the Sun's disk. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.900662056708856.1073741870.709709255804138&type=3 Read More...
May 06
2016
Malaysia GAM2016 : Youngster Interest with Space Exploration Increase with Tech Approach.
I believe our young generation's interest towards space exploration will increase with technology enhanced approaches in teaching STEAM. In celebrating Global Astronomy Month April 2016, Universe Awareness Malaysia had organized an event named “Let's Explore Our Sky”. In order to attract youngsters' interest, organizer uses Frog VLE (Frog Virtual Learning Environment) as a platform of learning and presentation.Click here : bit.ly/GAMmalaysia .Primary students aged from nine to thirteen years old from various school surrounding Sentul area were invited to the event. The atmosphere was electric and the air was thick with curiosity – with questions about the solar system, galaxy... Read More...
May 05
2016
NGC4038 / NGC4039 - The Antennae Galaxies
NGC4038 / NGC4039 - The Antennae Galaxies. Galactic collision sharing stellar material seen in the constellation Corvus. Both galaxies are in 45 million light years of Milky Way This photo was caught in april 26, 2015 in Caguas, Puerto Rico in average conditions. Technical details: 15 frames x 600 sec Meade LX90, Antares reducer f/6.3, Orion Sirius EQ-G Mount, Orion Autoguider, Celestron Nightscape 8300 CCD Color. I include this Video - Blog where i explain some information about this galaxies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXX8l-dG-KA Read More...
May 04
2016
Mercury Trnsit
My Name is Mugatwala Ronish. I am HSC student. In India People Have Lack Knowledge About Astronomical Events, on 9th May,2016 Biggest Astronomical Event is Mercury Trnsit So We Can Setup a Programme to Watch & Explain This Event. Read More...
May 04
2016
SPACE101 : Cooperation Between Roaya And Libyan Center For Remote Sensing & Astronomy
One of the effortless supporters in the most famous astronomical event in Libya #SPACE101 was the Libyan Center for Remote sensing and astronomy. This center has contributed with a wide range of selected academic and amature books about astronomy. Roaya member, Mohamed Eljoudi, supervised the fruitful book fair. #GAM2016 #SPACE101 Translated by: Nedal N. Alhassan Read More...
Apr 30
2016
AWB-Serbia - CONCERT FOR THE END OF GAM 2016 - SERBIA
Theme of the Concert: "Where no man has gone before". It can be seen here: https://www.facebook.com/Astronomi-bez-granica-217714985242474/ Musician Sasha Gracanin com posed specially for AWB. www.facebook.com/sashashadowman/ ASCAP registered. Read More...
Apr 30
2016
AWB-Serbia - GAM 2016. - GAM THEME ON APRIL 28th: Astropoetry
The task was ti write some astropoetry. We had 16 participants. The most beautiful attachments are sent by: Sasa Milosavljevic, Aleksandar Racin. The best works can be seen below. Read More...
Apr 30
2016
AWB-Serbia - GAM 2016. - GAM THEME ON APRIL 24th: Sun day
The task was to to photograph or draw Sun. We had 24 participants. The most beautiful attachments are sent by: Mirko Stankovic, Ruzica Mitic, Katarina Blazic, Ivica Baskin, Vlatko Jovanovski. The best works can be seen below. Read More...
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