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May 07
2020
SPACE CHENNAI - GAM 2020 - IMAGINING BLACKHOLES THROUGH ASTROCRAFT CONTEST REPORT
GLOBAL ASTRONOMY MONTH – IMAGINING BLACKHOLES THROUGH ASTROCRAFT CONTEST REPORT City: Chennai Date: 02/04/2020 Global Astronomy Month (GAM), organized in April every year by Astronomers Without Borders, is the world's largest global celebration of astronomy. For this year, SPACE has suggested several GAM events for conduction by SPACE associated schools. HIGHLIGHTS: The make the students super excite about black holes. This program motivated the participants to make use of this international opportunity provided by SPACE for exposing their imagination on Black holes. Participants were expose their imagination about black holes through Art and Crafts. Students can analyse their creativity and... Read More...
May 07
2020
SPACE CHENNAI - GAM 2020 - ASTROPOTERY REPORT
GLOBAL ASTRONOMY MONTH - ASTROPOTERY REPORT City: Chennai Date: 03/04/2020 Global Astronomy Month (GAM), organized in April every year by Astronomers Without Borders, is the world's largest global celebration of astronomy. For this year, SPACE has suggested several GAM events for conduction by SPACE associated schools. HIGHLIGHTS: Total number of participants 65. Great platform for Astro-Poets. This program motivated the participants to make use of this international opportunity provided by SPACE for writing their Astro-Poems. Participants were instructed to fill online google forms by providing their details and presenting their poems. DESCRIPTION: Around 65 Students from various schools participated in... Read More...
May 07
2020
SPACE CHENNAI - GAM 2020 - ASTRONOMERS IN MAKING REPORT
GLOBAL ASTRONOMY MONTH – ASTRONOMERS IN MAKING REPORT City: Chennai Date: 29/04/2020 Global Astronomy Month (GAM), organized in April every year by Astronomers Without Borders, is the world's largest global celebration of astronomy. For this year, SPACE has suggested several GAM events for conduction by SPACE associated schools. HIGHLIGHTS: SPACE Astronomy Club students share their experience with SPACE India. Young astronomers share their experience through the journey of astronomy club with everyone. This program motivated the participants to make use of this international opportunity provided by SPACE for exposing their passion towards astronomy and space science. DESCRIPTION: "Astronomers in Making"... Read More...
May 07
2020
SPACE CHENNAI - END OF THE WORLD - ASTEROID- FAKE NEWS ALERT REPORT
GLOBAL ASTRONOMY MONTH – ASTEROID- FAKE NEWS ALERT REPORT City: Chennai Date: 29/04/2020 Global Astronomy Month (GAM), organized in April every year by Astronomers Without Borders, is the world's largest global celebration of astronomy. For this year, SPACE has suggested several GAM events for conduction by SPACE associated schools. HIGHLIGHTS: Asteroid pass close to the earth. Breaking the false news that it was said that the asteroid will destroy earth. This program motivated the participants to make use of this international opportunity provided by SPACE for exposing false news among public. Public awareness program to break the false news that... Read More...
May 05
2020
First Globe at Night Participation
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Francis Emralino
Francis EmralinoWith the current global pandemic, everyone is to a large extent confined to their homes. But other citizen science-related work cannot be impeded by such crisis. The Globe at Night Campaign is one of them. We are still continuing its daytime counterpart which is easier given the ample amought of light available while recording data. The Globe at Night activity was more challenging due to the time as well as for the reason that it was my first time conducting it. Patience and keen attention to night sky details are important to record the information as accurate as possible. But... Read More...
May 01
2020
Autumn Nights in Goias #beauty without borders.
We continue to the most traditional meeting place of the Gunstar Team in Goias, the famous Morro do Alem for observation and recording of Venus and the Moon in a super meeting, but getting there beyond the beauty of this meeting we find a sunset worthy of extreme beauty. and colors announcing the stars of a perfect night, warm colors and vivid contrast of the cold air of the coming night was relentless taking the sadness out of every heart of those who took time to just watch. To celebrate the participation of the IGTAC Gunstar team we made a... Read More...
May 01
2020
Mobile Phone Astrophotography throughout April
These are collections of mobile astrophotography that I did throughout April: Picture 1: Waxing Crescent Moon and Venus Picture 2: Waxing Gibbous Moon Picture 3: Jupiter, Saturn and Mars Alignment Read More...
May 01
2020
YouTube Education Channel to Raise Awareness About Stargazing and Our Night Sky to the Public
In conjunction to the Global Astronomy Month, I have personally started a YouTube channel t(Syahirah Stargazer) my knowledge about stargazing and raise awareness about the night sky to the public. So far I've made 10 main videos under the "Stargazer Vlogs" category and casual videos under the title "Startalk". Based on Stargazer Vlogs, I shared on how to stargaze and basic knowledge about the celestial events such as the Full Moon Perigee, Meteor Shower and planet watching. Meanwhile in Startalk videos I discussed about my personal top 10 objects to observe in the night sky as to give ideas to... Read More...
Apr 30
2020
A night when we Captured Uranus
by 
William Afonso
William AfonsoIn better times before Covaid19 brought the world to a Standstill, a Dream came true on a Cool Night in the City of Mangalore, Karnataka State on the Western Coast of India. It was Feb 17 2020 when after a Patient search we Managed to Capture a Glimpse of the Closest Planet to the Sun not Visible via to Naked Eye - Uranus. The pale Blue planet was seen at about 40 Degrees West over the Horizon. The capture was done with a 6 inch Orion telescope and a Vivo Camera. Alongside me were two Wonderful Employees Ujjwal Chaturvedi and... Read More...
Apr 29
2020
Report in Brazilian TV
by 
Marcelo de Oliveira Souza
Marcelo de Oliveira SouzaHi!!! Brazilian TV transmitted a report about the activities developed by our group, Louis Cruls Astronomy Cub, in this period of social isolation. This report inlude AWB project Beauty without Borders. Read More...
Apr 28
2020
IOAS Astrophilia
Astrophilia offers the global opportunity for people of all backgrounds and experience levels; Outreach professionals, educators, amateur and professional astronomers, and astronomy enthusiasts to participate in online astronomy activities who want to use astronomy to cope with the long times they spend indoors and connect online with their communities. Of a person transmitting his night sky view through a telescope at his window; capturing a celestial object; virtual meetings; doing fun activities at home; playing games like solving puzzles; measure knowledge by participating in online questionnaires; online astronomy challenges and express creative ideas about astronomy by quoting a poem, writing... Read More...
Apr 27
2020
Conjunction of the Moon and Venus (April, 2020)
by Milan Patel
Milan PatelI participated in the global event called 'Beauty without borders - Global balcony photography of the Moon & Venus' and captured some of the moments of this celestial dance show of two planetary objects in the night sky. Read More...
Apr 27
2020
Globe at Night (April, 2020)
by Milan Patel
Milan PatelI have participated and do contribution for measuring the light pollution in my local area which will be very useful for measuring the light pollution level and compare with overall the globe. Read More...
Apr 27
2020
Online Program about Beauty without Borders
by Marcelo de Oliveira Souza
Marcelo de Oliveira SouzaSpecial edition of the programa Um Passeio pelo Céu about the event Beauty without Borders Read More...
Apr 26
2020
Astro Adventures of Registration to the Southern cruise.
After several weeks of rain and overcast weather in Goias stabilizes with the season announcing the arrival of winter and the drought provided us with a beautiful starry night. We left for 50km from our headquarters to the city of Aragoiania, an area of low light pollution where the team proceeded with observations and Astrophotographs. Read More...
Apr 22
2020
Live program about Astronomy
by Marcelo de Oliveira Souza
Marcelo de Oliveira SouzaHi!!! The team of the Louis Cruls Astronomy Club have three times a week a live program about Astronomy and Astronautics in Facebook and YouTube. In April we are celebrating in the program the Global Month of Astronomy. AWB's National Contacts and the founder of AWB Mike Simmons already participate in the program. All the programs can be seen in our Facebook: http://facebook.com/louiscruls Read More...
Apr 20
2020
Hamadryas Arete Planetarium OnLine Session
A live session of the planetarium with the project Hamadryas Arete of IGTAC Gunstar team talking about the sky and cultural astronomy with an emphasis on asterisms and constellations, the official contactions of the IAU and on the cultural point of view of peoples and several other constellations among them those of Brazilian Indians. A live of images and sounds with a lot of didactic content in one of the projects that can revolutionize low-cost astronomy with domestic projectors from Sega enterprice in japan. Oficial Live shot: https://www.facebook.com/GunstarTeam/videos/573784343241112/ Mystic Montains. At the IGTAC Institute, we are providing free advice to... Read More...
Apr 20
2020
La Palma Astrophotography 2018/2019
My Cosmic Photo Adventures La Palma During the last two years I have worked on an astro-landscape-photo documentary about La Palma with it's natural dark sky and impressive volcanic landscapes. It started with a naive »once in a lifetime« story that leaded up to my first Milky Way photography. However my story didn't end there but started to become a formative odyssey for me and my camera. In August 2018 I returned to the Canary Islands. Besides visits to Fuerteventura and Lanzarote I went to La Palma for many weeks - lived and worked near the capital Santa Cruz and... Read More...
Apr 18
2020
Transmissão ao vivo no Instagram sobre astronomia e tecnologia.
O clube de astronomia e ciência M45 participou de um bate-papo na quinta-feria dia 16 de abril de 2020 mediado por nossos dois membros e professores da rede estadual de ensino, Naldo Moreira e Nasciso Guedes sobre astronomia e tecnologia com alunos e professores através da página Instagram da 14° coordenadoria regional de desenvolvimento educacional (cred) do estado do Ceará, foi um evento incrível, onde conseguimos atingir um público maior de entusiastas e iniciantes em astronomia, além de discutir como a tecnologia é incorporada no campo da astronomia. Read More...
Apr 18
2020
Roadside Astronomy-Super Moon
by 
Yimin Gao
Yimin GaoXuanyuan astronomical society held a roadside astronomy event in yinchuan, ningxia hui autonomous region, China on April 7, 2020. For this event, we prepared two 80/900 refracting telescopes for the public to see the supermoon. About 20 people attended the event and were well received. Through this activity not only the public, we also have a lot to gain. We will make persistent efforts to contribute to the popularization of astronomy. Read More...
Apr 18
2020
Sidewalk Astronomy observes Venus
In China, the Corona Virus Disease 2019 has been effectively controlled (as of 24:00 on April 14th, in the mainland of China, a total of 77816 cases were discharged from the hospital, a total of 3342 deaths were reported, and a total of 82295 cases were reported. ）. In the city where I live, 14 patients with Corona Virus Disease 2019 have been cured and discharged, and no new confirmed cases have been found after March 5. On the evening of April 15, clear weather appeared and roadside astronomical activities were carried out in the residential area. Use a small... Read More...
Apr 17
2020
Imagining Black Holes Through Art
by Heena Bhatia
Heena BhatiaHello! Myself Heena Bhatia, Senior Educator at SPACE India. SPACE India is celebrating Global Astronomy Month with full enthusiasm. As part of the celebrations, I conducted Imagining Black Holes Through Art activity for the students of Sri Venkateshwar International School, Dwarka which is associated with Universe In The School Program of SPACE India. Students showed their creativity and presented black hole through art based on their imagination. It was indeed a fun activity and students enjoyed a lot! Read More...
Apr 16
2020
Virtual meeting in Brazil during "Corona-GAM2020"
I was invited, to participate in a virtual meeting in Brazil, by Marcelo Souza (AWB-NC of Brazil and founder of Louis Cruls Astronomy Club). Surprisingly I hat todo the "main programm" ;-) I thought we have just a little discussion meeting but, my friend Marcelo decided,shortly before running this event, it would be great if I will give nearly a one hour presentation .... so I had to improvise .... actually I had nothing prepared for this ;-) so I talked about our local activities in Corona-times and therefore I presented our astronomy associations website "Kepler Sternwarte Linz" (Johannes Kepler... Read More...
Apr 16
2020
Sharing observations during the COVID19 period
Because of the lack of careful physical contacts for this strange period, some of my friends ask me to share information about astronomy via the web. So I set up a special page in my web site for this very purpose. Here's the special link : Astronomy in Coronavirus time presentations If the presentations is set-up in the french language, YouTube allows you to request subtitles in your language. To ask that you just have to activate the "parameter" option. Sorry for the sometime "so-so" translation but hopefully you can follows my ideas. Clear and virus free sky Take care... Read More...
Apr 14
2020
Global Astronomy Month 2020 Celebrations
by Heena Bhatia
Heena BhatiaAs part of Global Astronomy Month celebrations, I in association with SPACE India organised and conducted various events and activities in which the students of different age groups participated with zeal and full enthusiasm. These inclue Astro Art Contest, Astro Poetry Contest, Selfie with Shukra Grah, Capture the Supermoon, Rendezvous with the sky, Astro model making and many more fun filled astronomy activities and observations. Not only students but their parents also contributed in GAM celebrations! Read More...
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