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Jul 29
2010
Another Sidewalk Session....
What is the purpose of building astronomy awareness ? To whom we should build this awareness. We always said it's for everyone and we also hoped they could enjoy astronomy and the night sky. But do we really share astronomy to all people? I usually did my events with students in a public schools or private schools, or share astronomy with orphan or in a village. But almost 2 weeks ago (July14th), when I took my telescope outside and try to capture the night sky with my camera, I met a servant from house nearby. I observed in the street... Read More...
Jul 29
2010
Sidewalk Astronomy While Hanging Out? Why Not?
Blogging.. yai I'm blogging again. Well quiet busy for a moment to setup my weblog new lay out and working on its mobile website. You can check it here ;). Also I'm on deadline for our next edition of astronomy magazine. But still.. I have some time to spent with my friends to hang out at the mall nearby. Hmm.. crazy huh? Why I like to hang out? refreshing my mind of course but more than that, I love to take my camera around and try to capture celestial object that I could see at the place. Why? Because it... Read More...
Jul 27
2010
UNAWE - Romania celebrated "Match Under Starlight"
Report by Catalina Movileanu For the "Match Under Starlight" project, the “Angela Gheorghiu” School from Adjud, Vrancea, in collaboration with UNAWE Romania, organized on July 7th a football game to celebrate the July solar eclipse, world peace and the FIFA World Cup 2010. The event involved 23 children with ages between 5 and 9, currently attending the Summer School program in Adjud. The day started with a short introduction about all the countries participating in the project, continued with a debate for choosing the team names and a short handmade workshop where children had the chance to personalize their own... Read More...
Jul 23
2010
Improvized Sidewalk Astronomy in Antwerp, Belgium
by 
Raoul Lannoy
Raoul LannoyOn july 15th, as the sky was great (but of course, next day is a work day), I took the bike, went to the port carrying a Manfrotto tripod and the 90mm Apex Orion telescope, assembled the whole thing on a bridge (above hangars) along the river Scheld and sure enough, several groups of people came along and I proposed they had a look at the crescent Moon, Venus and Saturn....They seemed delighted! Read More...
Jul 22
2010
Opportunity Watch 1
One of the best instruments we ever have to enjoy the Universe are our own eyes. As the guys from "The World at Night" say: "If you can see it, then you can photograph it"! And you know what? It is true! How many time have you seen something in the skies worth to capture in a snapshot? Since some years ago I always carry a digital camera with me virtually all the time, so I reduce to a minimum the chance of losing the capture a nice event with it. Lastnight, while I was at home, I had the... Read More...
Jul 22
2010
THE 41st ANNIVERSARY OF APOLLO 11 LANDING ON THE MOON IN ERBIL
Every year, peoples around the world remember the historical date of July 20 1969, when mankind make another dream become true after landing on the closest celestial object, the Moon. For us in AAAK, this is not just scientific event, but it is a source of moving our emotions and always let us flies through the wonderful space between the words of conversation between the Apollo 11 crew and Huston. For this year we decide to inviting peoples to listening and watching that great tell of Man Landing on Moon documentary by presenting it on a big wide screen inside... Read More...
Jul 11
2010
WE SAID: "YES TO PEACE!"
A Match under Starlight in Iraqi Kurdistan Region Finally after long time of announcing and preparing for it, here we are, in the day of play the match on July 7 2010. Players arrived and before the match beginning we made a small opining ceremony, standing with respect beside the flags of the countries that agree to joining in that activity and listening to their national anthems, even if they couldn't made it for a reason or another, still they are AWB's most active people! It was not just a game, it was a massage of peace from our injured... Read More...
Jul 06
2010
A Story of a Sun Before Sunset
Today... when I went back home, the sky was cloudy but I could see the sun behind trees. So I try to catch it with my camera. While I set up my camera on a tripod, my neighbors came around and started to ask me what am I doing? I was quiet surprise since in the neighborhood I live in, people barely know each other or have close relation ship. Something I don't really like from living in a big city. But well.. this was a start. So we talked about sun and then solar system. They were surprised with... Read More...
Jun 29
2010
Let's start blogging and share your stories
Now we are in a new AWB websites with new style too. It has social network stuff for all of us. Well almost like facebook but this one also has a blog section. In facebook we had a notes. So.. how to blog? for the content I think most of the people knows what he/she wants to write. but what I love about blog is, you can express your feeling / activities and stories to other. And you can do it through words / pictures or videos. And blogging is always fun isn't it? In this post, I would like... Read More...
Jun 28
2010
Moon in Saturday Afternoon
new blog again... seems like I have several blog now. hope I could stay active to share all of my activities. sometimes it isn't easy for me to have time to write. but again.. new blog.. new spirit. well this first post is about something I did several week ago. I went out with my friend to spent our weekend at the mall. And at that time.. for the first time after several weeks of rain and cloudy days, we had clear sky. so I took some pictures of the moon. just enjoy. Read More...
Jun 24
2010
Seasons Without Borders 3 in Parsonsfield, Maine, USA
By Joan Chamberlin of Greater Portland Astronomical Society. On June 21 st I set up my telescope in front of my house right on the street and invited all my neighbors to come celebrate the summer solstice by looking at the moon, Venus, and Saturn in my telescope. Because it gets dark so late, I spent some time explaining how my telescope works, showing them how much sky they would be looking at, and letting them look through a card that shows field of view. Then I showed them the telrad and explained how I find things in it. I... Read More...
Jun 23
2010
WORLD MUSIC DAY AND SWB3!
After a very hot week with temperatures reached to 47C degree! Finally the weather conditions became excellent. Wonderful day it was! When we went to Minara Park in the middle of Erbil city for our SWB3 activity, music was every where inside the park! That's because French Cultural Center celebrated with World Music Day which it is on June 22 in every year. There were too many foreign guests from Germany, Japan, USA, Iran and France and from governorates of southern of Iraq. AAAK's begin with its activity at 07:40 PM local by using 4.5 inch TASCO-Galaxsee and 2 inch... Read More...
Jun 23
2010
Seasons Without Borders 3 in Parsonsfield, Maine, USA
On June 21st I set up my telescope in front of my house right on the street and invited all my neighbors to come celebrate the summer solstice by looking at the moon, Venus, and Saturn in my telescope. Because it gets dark so late, I spent some time explaining how my telescope works, showing them how much sky they would be looking at, and letting them look through a card that shows field of view. Then I showed them the telrad and explained how I find things in it. I let one of the children use the telrad to... Read More...
Jun 21
2010
SWB 3 Downunder online meeting details
by 
Paul Moss
Paul MossJust checked in to Adobe Connect to see it still operating, I will be there late tonight NZ time, perhaps 12:00 UT, (lunchtime in UK) and again around 22:00 UT please feel free to log in and connect with us. Please use your name and country as your login so we have an idea on your time zone at a glance. thanks Paul Moss New Zealand Sharing Space http://connectpro19062456.acrobat.com/gam/ Read More...
Jun 20
2010
Global Astronomy Month 2010 in Nepal
Astro Quiz Contest 2010, April 1-30,2010 Nepal Astronomical Society(NASO) in collaboration with National TV asked four questions related to the astronomy with three options from National television during the GAM2010. People voted by sending sms as GAM_A/B/C to 4321. We announced winners every Saturday. The questions were: Where does Chhatedhunga lie in Nepal? What is the distance between the Sun and the Earth? When was International Year of Astronomy Celebrated? Where is the National Observatory of Nepal? The participants were from the different parts of Nepal. The winners were Ashim Aaudel, 13 years, Dharan; Indira Chaudari, Dhangadi; Debaki Bhattarai, Kathmandu... Read More...
Jun 19
2010
SARM’s Activities for GAM in Romania
Before, during and after GAM 2010, the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy (SARM) presented, in a number of Romanian areas (Targoviste, Gorj County, Iasi, Sighet, Cluj County, Bucharest etc.), a rich diversity of public and observational events—including Earth Hour, Solar Week, Saturn Watch, Lunar Week, Star Peace, Lyrid Watch, Earth Day, and Astronomy Day, plus sidewalk star parties and public-education efforts in the fight against light pollution. Other April presentations by SARM included the GAM astropoetry reading and exhibition at the Admiral Vasile Urseanu Municipal Observatory in Bucharest, and SARM’s national contest and international exhibition of astrophotography in Targoviste.... Read More...
Jun 19
2010
Star Party at Moneague Training Camp Jamaica
In preparation for The distribution of GALILEOSCOPES to schools in Jamaica, The Astronomical Association of Jamaica decided that instead of having a “Star Party” for each school to establish “Astro Clubs”, it was decided to group the schools in the area and provide a safe site for the event for the first of these arrangements were made with LT. Colonel G. Rowe of the Jamaica Defence Force for the Parade Ground at the Moneague Training Camp. Members of the Group for the trip were Cleveland Gustard, Shakira Wade, Marvalyn Campbell , Chris Lee and Errol Rickman. Wayne Chin and His... Read More...
Jun 19
2010
GAM 2010 in Constantine Algeria
Sirius Astronomy Association celebrated GAM2010 in Constantine, Algeria with a solar observing program. See photos from the event. Read More...
Jun 19
2010
Global Star Party celebration in Brazil
10º Astronomia na Praça - 10 Square Astronomy Photos from a GAM star party in Brazil's capitol city of Brasilia. When: 24.04.2010 18.00 - 22.00 Where: Praça dos Três Poderes -Brasília -DF - Brasília Website: http://www.casb.com.br Read More...
Jun 19
2010
GEOSTAR Party 2010
Asociación de Niños Indagadores del cosmos, Bogota Colombia organized third GEOSTAR Party 2010 After 100 hours astronomy, came to this special month our third ANIC GEOSTAR PARTY 2010, in union with GLOBAL ASTRONOMY MONTH, organized by astronomers without borders, with the central slogan One People, One Sky, and in Colombia with the child's month, 30 days full of many adventures, which involved many small and large with a single objective: "to open the window to the soul of the universe". This is a compilation of the activities that took place in our third festival of the stars and the earth;... Read More...
Jun 19
2010
Clear skies at last
On April 30th 2010 was my rescheduled date for the Global Star Party. It started out cloudy when people started arriving so we discussed AWB and general Astronomy. Then one at a time Venus came into view along with the rest of the night sky. We viewed Venus then Mars and M44 the Beehive Cluster, at that time the ISS flew over head and many questions were asked. We finally went on to Saturn, I started off with a low power lens so it could stay into view longer and let everyone look. Then I changed the 20mm lens out... Read More...
Jun 17
2010
The Reunion Island
by Raoul Lannoy
Raoul LannoyHi, Last month, I was for 12 days at the Reunion Island in The Indian Ocean, 21 degrees below the equator and 800 km east of Madagascar....My first trip in the Southern Hemisphere , with 5 other friends, among which 3 other members of the Astroclub Vega ! It was the southern heaven that was the main purpose of the trip ! Read More...
Jun 09
2010
Activities of Ghana Astronomy and Observation Association (GAOA)
by 
Sarah Abotsi-Masters
Sarah Abotsi-MastersPlease see below an account of the activities organised by GAOA for Global Astronomy Month 2010, at the Ghana Planetarium. (Sorry, no photos!) “Moon Watch” - Saturday 24 th April 2010, 5pm at the Ghana Planetarium This was the third and final event for “Global Astronomy Month” held at the Ghana Planetarium. The few astronomy enthusiasts who braved the evening rainstorm were treated to a wide range of different activities. The theme of the event was “Moon Watch” so the evening started with a short video about the moon. Sarah gave the usual Night Sky presentation next using the Stellarium... Read More...
Jun 01
2010
AWB-Car meets ASTER (Erciyes University Astronomy Club)
On 24.5.2010 we arrived at Kayseri and visited the Erciyes University. Dr. Ferhart Fikri Özeren welcomed us very warming and open-hearted. After a first visit of the institute and the radiotelescope (12m-dish) we made a round trip to the oldest place of Anatolia the ancient city called Kârum Kaneš (Assyrian tradecenter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCltepe about 2000BC) On the next day we met students and members of ASTER(Erciyes University Astronomy Club) and I gave a little lecture to them similary to that I did in Syria. - As a sideline:Unfortunately I got no contact in Jordan - JAS(Jordan Astronomy Society) and other people in this region did never respond to my e-mails:-(... Read More...
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