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Oct 28
2015
Sleepy conjunction
by 
Octavian
OctavianAfter daylight saving time organisms need to reset, so unintendedly I caught this morning the conjunction of Venus, Mars and Jupiter. I will try to catch a proper session , with tripod and filters, tomorrow morning, earlier than today. Obviously Venus isn't a double planet nor has any satellites, so there was a movement when pressing camera button. Read More...
Oct 27
2015
Zero Shadow Day Event 2015
by 
Milan Patel
Milan PatelThe event named Zero Shadow Day was organized at Vadodara on 3rd June, 2015. The definition of noon in some text books is given as when the sun is overhead. Which actually is not the case of every day observation? The long shadows of objects at sunrise start becoming smaller and smaller as the day progress until the shadow is smallest. At this point the shadow is exactly aligned north - South. For those between the latitudes 23.5 deg. south (the tropic of Capricorn) and 23.5 deg. north (the tropic of Cancer) can experience the sun right overhead at Zenith... Read More...
Oct 27
2015
Celestial Dance Part-3
by Milan Patel
Milan PatelOnce again the conjunction is happened between three planets named Venus, Mars and Jupiter in end of the October. I have captured this event in my camera in early morning of 26th of October at 5:30 AM. Mars had very low magnitude so I caught only Venus and Jupiter. Once again the experience is fantastic. It is really pleasure to see such type of celestial dance of these cosmic bodies in to the space. Read More...
Oct 27
2015
Celestial Dance Part-1
by Milan Patel
Milan PatelThe beautiful conjunction occurred in the month of June, 2015 between two planets named Jupiter and Venus. These two planets are normally very popular for the event named Celestial dance. I have captured that moment in late evening after 8 O'clock. Read More...
Oct 27
2015
Celestial Dance Part-2
by Milan Patel
Milan PatelIn the month of October, there was a great conjunction occurred between the Moon- a natural satellite of Earth and four planets of our solar system named Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter. I have also captured a photo of that conjunction in early morning. In this photo, we can clearly see the conjunction between the planet Venus and Moon. Amazing Experience! Read More...
Oct 26
2015
White House Astronomy Night
by 
Vivian White
Vivian WhiteI was honored to be one of a handful of amateur and professional astronomers invited to bring our telescopes to the second White House Astronomy Night on the front lawn last Monday, October 19th (the first was held in 2009). Exhibitors were given 3 hours in the afternoon to set up, leaving us plenty of extra time for wandering the beautiful gardens and seeing the other displays. The crew responsible for growing salad on the International Space Station arranged their garden box under red lights, SpaceX and Occulus showed off cutting edge technology both visceral and virtual, and a huge... Read More...
Oct 06
2015
Star Walk Installation
In 2014, project nightflight opened the first permanent star walk installation worldwide in Austria, Europe. The Grossmugl Star Walk is a self-guided tour encouraging astronomical observations with the unaided eye. Nine displays along the trail explain general astronomical topics in an easy-to-read way. On a 90 minutes' walk, visitors learn how to spot star colors, artificial satellites, the Milky Way and other objects in the night sky. The 1.5-km-long tour is free of charge, open all year round day and night and available without booking or reservation. The "Sternenweg Großmugl" was designed by project nightflight and built in close collaboration... Read More...
Oct 03
2015
FASE Astronomical Workshop and Sky Observation program – Southern Province
FASE provincial astronomical workshop program was initiated from southern province on 23rd of September 2015 at Kirama Dhammananda School, Hambanthota. The mission of this program is to boost the number of professional and scholars engaged on astronomy and related fields via inspiration of young generation in unprivileged environment, for the advancement of science and technology to benefit mankind. The main lecture was given by Yugandara Eeriyagama and workshop on optical astronomy was conducted by Janith Weerasinghe and Tharindu Rajasooriya. More than three hundred students were participated to this event as well as teachers and parents. Participants Ravishan Liyanage Janith Weerasinghe... Read More...
Sep 30
2015
Eclipse from South-East France
Once is not custom, but in South-East France we had a quite bad weather during the first time of this event, so a lot of the astro fellows decline the session, maybe too early. Anyway we had a triple program and achieve it: - making some timelapse of the full event, - crater timings sought were requested so make timings when the edge of the umbra crosses lunar markings, - and making watercolours of the general atmosphere in a nice landscape. For the first part, Antoine Altura was connected remotely with Michel Sarrau of the Brax observatory (near Agen, so... Read More...
Sep 30
2015
Lunar Eclipse from Campos-Rio de Janeiro /Brazil
by 
Any Gomes
Any GomesThe event organized by the Louis Cruls Astronomy Club, which I am a member, for the residents observe the eclipse, in the public square in the city center of Campos dos Goytacazes. It was a magical moment. Were so many people, of all ages and social class, and seven telescopes! The Louis Cruls Astronomy Club exists since 1996. More information, access: calc.zip.net or https://www.facebook.com/pages/Louis-Cruls-Astronomy-Club/223980723497 All the pictures by Any AG. Read More...
Sep 30
2015
Gunstar team Rare Super Moon Eclipse
Gunstar Team's first and largest amateur astronomy club Goias and first AstroAdventure ecological club From Brazil affiliated to Astronomers Without Borders des 2013, held two events in Eclipse Day the first was the greeting of the Super Moon on the hill addition, observation moonrise, the second was in conjunction with urumbeta band Space Cutural Event Sounds Alley III where Galera was to Delirio with the views of the eclipse with the naked eye and through the telescope beyond the visions weather the wonderful sound of the band caused at all with your Post Rock style pink floyd Space. In short... Read More...
Sep 29
2015
September 2015's Lunar eclipse from Nicaragua.
Let's start by saying that we were lucky enough to see the initial part for this event. Weather has been behaving badly for astronomical adventures these months in the entire Central America region. So we were uncertain about the possibilty of watching the eclipse. But patience and perseverance paid back to us, at least for a while. In Nicaragua, amateur astronomers organized local events in their neighborhoods and towns instead of making a one-only event. Amateurs from Leon, Managua, Masaya and Granada were following the wheater development and posting their experiences on Facebook and Twitter. Franklin Antonio Mejia organized a... Read More...
Sep 29
2015
Different kind of Lunar-eclipse-observing (an attempt to make an indirectly Lunar Eclipse observing)
Due to cloudy weather, there was no chance to make an observation of this year's Super-Moon-eclipse. At first the local weatherforecast in the north of our hometown Linz/AUSTRIA wasn't so bad ....... ........ but when we arrived at our observing location we had following scenery: So what could we do ? Hope dies last and we decided to stay to wait for some holes in the clouds ..... they didn't come :-( In the meantime we used a DSLR, using a 8mm lens and took some pictures showing the cloudy sky during the whole time. So we decided to make... Read More...
Sep 29
2015
Lunar eclipse from Ramillies, Belgium
by 
Raoul Lannoy
Raoul LannoyHere in Belgium, the weather was also very clear (but damp )and foggy early in the morning. We appeared on our frenchspeaking commercial national TV station RTL-TVI: http://www.rtl.be/videos/video/550405.aspx?CategoryID=4759 The field of Ramillies (it was a battlefield between the Duke of Marlborough and Louis XIV in mei 1706) is our favorite observation area: when it was full moon, the entire area was lit up by its glare but once the Moon got hidden by Earth's shadow, we could even see the Milky Way and numerous stars around the Moon ! This was the longest Moon eclipse I experienced and also at... Read More...
Sep 09
2015
Artists Help a Young Astro Lover
From September 4 - October 6, artists have come together to help a 4-year old boy named Aedan Pio who was diagnosed with chordoma - a rare type of cancer. The Philippine Lung Center and the Oxygen Art and Gallery Design is hosting an art exhibit for a cause entitled Dots in Space , to aid in raising funds for the necessary proton beam therapy ($250,000). This young boy loves to do water colors of the solar system, and dreams of becoming an astronaut. His paintings will be sold along with the paintings of the invited artists. The proceeds of... Read More...
Aug 11
2015
Sounds of the Night
With Sounds of the Night we present a new category of astro images: nightscapes accompanied by natural sounds of the night, recorded during the imaging session. The sound of ocean waves, crickets chirping, nocturnal birds and many other nighttime sounds bring the pictures alive. If you watch the audio pictures, you will most likely notice a much stronger effect than traditional astrophotos cause. This happens because the audio pictures reach two channels of human perception. The visual channel is backed up by sounds, which easily triggers memories from first-hand experiences. Imagination then completes the illusion and the picture becomes the... Read More...
Aug 10
2015
Comparison of the angular sizes of the Moon, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn
Telescope: Celestron Nexstar 4GT Date: June 22-23 Planets added to the original frame with the Moon, no scaling, no other image processing done. Read More...
Aug 07
2015
Perseidas 2015
El próximo 12 de Agosto a partir de las 22 horas, "AstroGEDA" organiza una actividad especial para la observación de esta tradicional lluvia de estrellas denominada "Perseidas". Si quieres observarlas con nosotros solo tienes que visitar nuestra web para saber donde vamos a realizar la actividad. The next August 12 from 22 am, "AstroGEDA" organized a special event to observe this traditional shower of stars called "Perseids." If you want to observe us just you have to visit our website to know where we will conduct the activity. www.astrogeda.es Read More...
Jul 21
2015
Charlie Duke in Brussels july 18th 2015
by Raoul Lannoy
Raoul LannoyLast saturday, I was in Brussels at Palace 2 (Heyzel) for the opening of a Space expo (Gateway to Space) and a bit early at the entry and who comes at the entry? It took me a second to recognize them: Charlie and Dotty Duke! (I hoped it would turn out that way...Nobody else but the 3 of us for about 10 seconds). I quickly managed a question: no video exists from inside the LM on the surface of the Moon for all Apollo flights.....Ok, I had to let him in the museum and wait for the gates to open... Read More...
Jul 20
2015
Astronomy education students in Iran - Karaj
by 
Mina Alvandi
Mina AlvandiAstronomy training report, creativity with physics and aero-space: This team work was held as the result of attempts made by female high school of Shahid Fallahi and Science and Cosmology of Haft Asman in Alborz, Karaj, Iran and the report is as follows: Preliminary astronomy trainings: In this period which lasted for 10 days, students were first familiarized with basic concepts like stars, planets, galaxy, comet and theories about the creation of the universe were discussed. Then the sun, our only star in solar system was studied. Concepts like light and warmth of the sun, physics of the sun, nuclear... Read More...
Jul 17
2015
Astronomical Society of Pasargad Sky (ASPS) - GAM2015
Once again we celebrated the world's largest global celebration of astronomy in Saadat-shahr through Global Astronomy Month 2015. Several education & observation programs were conducted by Astronomical Society of Pasargad Sky (ASPS) for Iranian and Afghan refugee students, families and other citizens, young and old, men and women, in schools, popular streets, parks, and even in world heritage site of Pasargad. We shared the stunning night sky above, and people enjoyed watching beautiful stars, moon, and planets during GAM2015. We beleive that astronomy is the strongest thing which can gather all of us around the world together as a big... Read More...
Jul 17
2015
The Gallivants Tale
The Gallivants Tale We are the cosmos's wanderers, Amidst the pitched-black universe, Traipsing elsewhere to transverse, To yonder world without borders. Astounded by an abrupt flash, A pale blue dot appeared out of air, Which likewise known to be the lair- Of an assemblage taken a bash. Thy beauty deceit thy eyes, For such bounty shatter thy world, Constant conflagration kindled, To the core where innermost lies. Is this the honey and milk of life? Streaming from atrocities? We, Earthlings, got to cherish this pale blue dot, The last and only hope of humanity. Read More...
Jul 12
2015
Venus-Jupiter conjunction on July 11
Parting away to be reunited again! Seems this month's story of two bright planets caught "on the road" (the photo from Greece remembered me their legend). Still without tripod, D3100/ 18-55 standard. Read More...
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