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Jan 17
2013
In a Count of 30
That gray veil of dusty wind tickles my ears again. It whispers a nostalgic sovereignty of a dull atmosphere around everyone of us. Few steps then, I’m off to school. Technically, just on my way as I take my initial steps in this UV shelter. It is a long way as my eyes pay attention to this narrow way of covered pathway, it sure looks different but at least our local government finally had it accomplished. It is in no doubt an answer to those three young folks died due to skin cancer, the one aged 16, the others at... Read More...
Dec 20
2012
School astronomy clubs in Morocco
by 
Hatim madani
Hatim madaniGalileo Teacher Training Progam sessions were organised in the benefit of teachers from nearby schools interested in astronomy and who want to create clubs in their schools. Read More...
Nov 26
2012
The time
The time distribution of an era : - Four steps are becomes in one large era. Their names & time duration is given as follows. Satya era = 1728000solar years, tretaa era = 1296000solar years, dwaapara era = 864000solar years, kali era = 432000solar years, Sum of above four eras are becomes equal to one large era. One large era = 4320000solar years. Thousands of large eras are becomes equal to one Kalpa. According to ancient Indian astronomy, from beginning of Kali era to beginning of shake era had elapsed 3179 solar year & at present time of shake era... Read More...
Sep 23
2012
International Observe the Moon Night 2012
by 
Raoul Lannoy
Raoul LannoyOn september 22 2012, I went to Dinant (from Namur, following the Meuse beautiful valley) whe re the Cercle Astronomique Mosan (CAM) held its International Observe the Moon Night. The CAM has an observatory and they aimed their big refractor to the Moon and the image was shown on a TV screen for details. The Moon was never high in the sky, so there was lots of turbulence. A dozen of visitors came and enjoyed the scenery, our telescopes, a setup to show why peakes can form long shadows and a bucket with sand to show what happens when a... Read More...
Sep 17
2012
“Hasta la Vesta” at the Ghana Planetarium, Saturday 8th September 2012
We hosted a “Hasta la Vesta” event to celebrate the Dawn mission moving on from a successful year studying its first target, Vesta, and starting its journey to the second target, Ceres. We used a lot of resources from NASA's Hasta La Vesta website: http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/hasta_la_vesta_games_activities.asp We started with an introductory talk on the Solar System, to ensure everyone was clear what asteroids are, and the location of the main asteroid belt. Since our first visitors were families with young children, the parents teamed up with the children for our “Grape or Raisin” activity. Here participants compared the attributes of their... Read More...
Sep 14
2012
2012 Great World Wide Star Count, October 5 - 19!
by 
Richie Bauer
Richie BauerAnyone planning to join in on the Great World Wide Star Count coming? :) Read More...
Sep 13
2012
Asteroid 2012 QG42
by Richie Bauer
Richie BauerAsteroid QG42 (about the size of a 14 story building) was discovered a few weeks ago and it’s heading towards Earth today. It will miss our planet by 7.4 Lunar distances. Check out the SLOOTH live coverage of the fly-by event (free to the public): http://events.slooh.com/ Read More...
Sep 12
2012
Amateur Astronomer George Hall of Dallas, TX captures an Earth-sized explosion on Jupiter
by Richie Bauer
Richie BauerApparently George Hall is the only person in the world to have captured an explosion on Jupiter early Monday morning. Amazing! Here is the link to the article: http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2012/09/12/local-astronomer-captures-jupiter-fireball-on-video/ Read More...
Sep 11
2012
reality of space
i want to tell the world about space beacuse me n my team were researching on space sinse many years .. i have proof that we can only tell the reality of space please do spread my message to the nasa scientist Read More...
Sep 02
2012
AGAIN - ASTRONOMERS MEET WITHOUT BORDERS IN LINZ(AUSTRIA)
During this years AEC-festivial (Slogan: THE BIG PICTURE - Creating a new conception for the world) some very famous "Astronomy- People" visited Linz again personaly "in real life" and virtual. At the instance of Dietmar Hager ( http://www.stargazer-observatory.com/ ) the AEC invited Warren Keller ( http://www.billionsandbillions.com/ ) and Damian Peach ( http://www.damianpeach.com/ ) to Linz. These famous astrophotographers gave on Saturday lectures about their outstanding astrophotographic work. On Sunday we had a live-skype connection to La Silla to the world best exoplanet telescope: ESO telscope - HARPS (High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher).Dr. Juri Beletsky and another scientiest gave us... Read More...
Aug 13
2012
Nights of the Shooting stars 2012
by Raoul Lannoy
Raoul LannoyHello, On thursday 9th, many clubs gathered at the country's Space Camp, the Eurospace Center, near France and Luxemburg. For most of the afternoon, my PST was used to show details on the surface of the Sun and lots of people had a look at our star. I dressed up in my astronaut blue suit (at least I can do that once a year) and was interviewed by RTL-TVI, the french speaking national commercial TV station. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYKbkx3zMmY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2_C686Pt8Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4dWdDFNnWg Later, we went inside to avertize about our astronomy clubs (we have tables and cables for our PC's) and after sunset,... Read More...
Aug 13
2012
A WEEKEND FULL OF FUN - int. guests: Jerry Bonnell & Babak Tafreshi 10.-12. August 2012
The Austrian Astronomy&Space-Club ORION , who is running an German written APOD-mirror since about 5 Years invited for a special event in an old castle in Lower Austria. Jerry Bonnell and Babak Tafreshi followed this invitation and they gave some great lectures. This was a very familar and sociable meeting to talk, to discuss, to relax and to observe. Luckily we had the possibility to observe some Perseids during the last night. We had enough holes in the clouds :-) Of course Babak took as usual some nice TWAN-images we hopefully can see next time. In the meantime following a... Read More...
Aug 13
2012
Perseid meteor Shower, Guerrara 12/08/2012
Night with the Stars : Perseid meteor Shower On Sunday, August 12, 2012, at 22:00 .Scientifique Club of Guerrara organized a trip to the outskirts of Guerrara for observation the astronomical phenomenon ' Perseid meteor Shower ' This is by the following program: - Make a presentation on the definition of meteors, during which questions about the topic of the participants. - A presentation about use of the camera and the basics of astro-photography - From 00:00 we select the appropriate location, and open horizon toward the constellation Perseus and turn off all sources of light and we started monitoring.... Read More...
Jul 30
2012
Some photo impressions from a little "AWB-Coordinator-Meeting" & something about borders
Caused by 2 things I decided to join this year EWASS (European Week of Astronomy and Space Sience, 1-6-July 2012)). The first was the short time e-mail invitation by Rosa Doran to AWB-members (from 14.05.2012) to join here GTTP Session at special EWASS-fee in combination with the special session devoted to European astronomy education and the second was the fact that I have dedected Thilinas name on the list of registered participants. So in the same night I had to decide and I booked online a train ticket and a cheap hotel in Rome and did my registration.... and it... Read More...
Jun 29
2012
A NATURALIST LOOKS AT COMETS
by 
Rex De Silva
Rex De SilvaA Naturalist looks at Comets (Reminiscences of a Sri Lankan Comet Chaser) Rex I. De Silva My interest in observational astronomy was first aroused when I bought a small terrestrial refractor in January 1968. With it and a copy of Norton's Star Atlas (1966 ed.) I commenced a personal survey of the night sky. More than two years passed before I saw my first comet. Perhaps in the long run this was a good thing as when a comet finally did appear I had a reasonably good working knowledge of the night sky and observing techniques. Comet Bennet arrived in... Read More...
Jun 28
2012
Venus Transit 2012 at Fasa University
We had a wonderful time during the important event of astronomical history “Venus Transit 2012” at Fasa University. Most of engineering students were very enthusiastic to know more about the Venus planet. Some audiences came because they knew next Venus Transit will happen in 2117. Soheil Salimi “the founder Astronomical Society of Fasa University” and “The Scientific & Educational Manager” at “The Scientific & Educational Department of ISAFU” (ISAFU or “Islamic Students Association of Fasa University” is an association that try to develop the science and outreach) introduced Mike Simmons( President of the Los Angeles Astronomical Society (LAAS), founding President... Read More...
Jun 27
2012
Venus Transit 2012 at Fasa University
The Photos of Venus Transit at Fasa University . Read More...
Jun 27
2012
Venus Transit 2012 at Fasa University
Venus Transit 2012 at Fasa University We had a wonderful time during the important event of astronomical history “Venus Transit 2012” at Fasa University. Most of engineering students were very enthusiastic to know more about the Venus planet. Some audiences came because they knew next Venus Transit will happen in 2117. Soheil Salimi “the founder Astronomical Society of Fasa University” and “The Scientific & Educational Manager” at “The Scientific & Educational Department of ISAFU” (ISAFU or “Islamic Students Association of Fasa University” is an association that try to develop the science and outreach) introduced Mike Simmons( President of the Los... Read More...
Jun 15
2012
GAM 2012 EVENT STAR PARTY AT BCCIS CAIRO EGYPT
Date : 25th of April Time : Start : 8 pm - 11pm Event location : Britisch Columbian Canedian International School in Cairo Egypt Approx number of people attended : (children, parents and teachers) : 75 Description : Explanation of the basics of Astronomy, viewing of Moon, Saturn and stars Organizer of this Event : Space Observers Egypt ( Nader Kobaissy) Read More...
Jun 12
2012
Transit of Venus - some impressions from AUSTRIA
Following a short review of my (global & local) impressions and some picts of our local short Venus-transit-event organized by members of our local astronomy association (LAG) ..... Here in Austria it was a very short event but we had luck to see something of this rare event (about 1 hour). Unfortunately due to clouds we could not see the 3rd and 4th contact. Sunrise Linz 05:04 MESZ Egress Interior - 06:37 MESZ Egress Exterior - 06:55 MESZ To see the whole transit I used various sources by internet, of course the great AWB-webcast from Mt. Wilson too. (I have... Read More...
Jun 06
2012
Venus Transit ANIC Children in Colombia
“THE SUN HAS A POINT” Said a child excited to see for the first and last time this charming and mysterious astronomical phenomenon, the passage of a planet from the Sun, is a very interesting event that we saw and photographed with great splendor, clouds Bogota gave permission for observation. He gave a short introduction where I explain the importance of the phenomenon to human civilization because measurements are determined as: the first realistic estimates of the size of the sun, and the distance between it and Earth. Venus's orbit is tilted 3.4 ° from the orbit of the Earth,... Read More...
May 29
2012
Astronomy Day 2012 - Star party
Date: 28th April, 2012 Time: 20:00 to 23:00 IST (GMT+5:30). Location: Lakhota Lake, Jamnagar (Gujarat-India) Event description: This event was for observing the Saturn, Moon and constellations. 3" reflector telescope was used to show the rings of Saturn and the craters of Moon. Approx people attended the event: 170+. Other: It was public event. The pressnote was published in local newspaper to invite the people. No fees. clean weather. Organizer: Mr Dhiren K. Meshvaniya (Lakhota Nature Club). Telescope provided by: Mr Chhaganbhai B. Modhwadiya. Read More...
May 26
2012
GAM 2012 Report: Journey around the Moon
Date: April 5, 2012 Time: 12.00-14.00 Event location: Dacia Middle School, Oradea, Romania Number of students: 30 students, 7-th grade Event description: 1. Lunar Landscape 2. Volcanic features on the Moon Organizer: Valentina Matei. Read More...
May 26
2012
GAM 2012 Report: Exploring the Moon
Date: April 4-5, 2012 Time: 10.00-12.00 Event Location: Dacia Middle School Oradea, Romania Number of people attended: 30 students, 4 grade Event description: 1.Apollo program 2. GRAIL mission. Organizers: Matei Valentina and Bucse Georgeta. Read More...
May 26
2012
Journey to the Moon
Date: April 2-3, 2012 Time: 08:00-14:00 Event Location: A. Lazar High-School in Oradea, Romania Event description: Multimedia presentations for 25 students, 9 to 12 grades, about: 1. The Moon; 2. Internal structure and geology of the Moon; 3. Mercury and Gemini programs; 4. Apollo program; 5. GRAIL mission. Organizer: Valentina Matei. Read More...
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