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Member Reports from Avivah Yamani

May 09
2011

langitselatan Global Star Party

For GAM2011 Global Star Party we hold a discussion and star party event in cultural park in Bandung. Unfortunately the weather in april wasn't good at all, so we can only watch the moon for a while and than we have a discussion session for the whole night. At the star party there were several communities in Bandung join the events that night, such as Astronomy Students Associates from ITB, Jakarta Astro Club, Astronomy Fun Club. Read More...

May 09
2011

Astro Class, SUN day and Astro Games with kindergarten students

Actually we started these activities before GAM started on March, but the second events held in April 9th so we make it as one of GAM events from our group. It was an activity with kindergarten students in our town. The first events we have solar system presentation, telescope introduction and sun observation. It was fun indeed because they have a bunch of questions even before I started my talk. Although the sky a little bit cloudy we still had fun to observe the sun with solar glasses. The 2nd events was meant for parents and students as well. We... Read More...

Apr 14
2011

exploring the solar system

This post actually to testing how to embed a video on a blog post but, I found an interesting old video taken more than a year ago when I teach kindrgarten students At that time I introduce solar system to them, and at the end of the session I show them a script from celestia. They were exciting and pretend to be in a spaceship, exploring the solar system and visit each planet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOs3aogCreg Read More...

Nov 15
2010

Exploring Solar System and Sun Day at Tunas Unggul

Last week, langitselatan went to Tunas Unggul kindergarten and elementary school to teach astronomy for the students. Because we had 2 different level of students from kindergarten and 2nd grade of elementary school, we decided to have 2 different class and session. So the kindergarten students starts with astronomy class and the elementary school students had sun observation and telescope session in school yard with me. And we had so much fun. The children were energetic and they keep asking about everything. They have high curiosity about space science. They ask about the sun and give comment why the sun... Read More...

Nov 15
2010

Pesta Blogger+, National Blogger Gathering in Indonesia

Pesta blogger (blogger party) is a big vent for blogger in Indonesia. This is a blogger gathering around the country since 2007. At the first Pesta Blogger, the information and communication minister announce October 27th as blogger day in Indonesia. This year, the blogger party opened by Education minister. In 2010, pesta blogger (PB) held an event not just for blogger but also for other social network users such as facebook, twitter, foursquare, koprol and etc. This year, they took a theme of “celebrate the diversity” and invite many communities to join the event. One of the communities which is... Read More...

Nov 15
2010

PSB Singapore School Star Party

Last month, on October 28th, we had a chance to have starparty and astronomy session with PSB Singapore School students for 7 grade level. It was our first time to have a starparty with international school in Indonesia. And it was fun indeed. PSB Singapore school was in their lesson trip from Jakarta to Bandung, and they had outbound activities, and also an astronomy activities at night. Although we started late on 9.30 but the students weren't tired at all. I think. They came to the villa after dinner and we swap our plan to have astronomy session in the... Read More...

Oct 03
2010

InOMN with langitselatan

September 18, 2010, although we were in 2 weeks holiday for Eid Mubarak, langitselatan decide to hold a gathering session for InOMN (International Observe of Moon Night) and this gathering was also meant as "silaturahmi" session. In Indonesia, during Eid Mubarak, we had "silaturhami" custom. This is a custom of family gathering in Indonesia during Eid Mubarak and also during Christmas. But because Christmas is only a short holiday, most people in Indonesia use Eid Mubarak holiday to have this custom. So, our group decide to have this gathering session as a family in astronomy too. It start with a... Read More...

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 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...