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Member Reports from Thilina Heenatigala
Aug 06
2010
Two Star Parties in Canada to celebrate SwB3
We actually ended up doing two “Seasons Without Borders” Star Parties to represent Canada; one on Sunday June 20th and the other on Tuesday June 22nd. The first took place at Humber Bay Park, a spit of land sticking out into Lake Ontario, overlooking the downtown core of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. About 35 people attended (from the “Single Horizons” club) and skies cleared just in time for some spectacular viewing. We run a desk top computer & 22” LCD screen to present our initial, basic “Astronomy 101” talk on the universe (beginning with the AWB's tremendous, Hi-Def Video), then turn... 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...
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...
Apr 28
2010
Hands on activities saved the day!
Astronomy Day and Global Star Party at Astronomical Society of Northern New England On April 24th Astronomical Society of Northern New England in Kennebunk, Maine celebrated Astronomy Day and held their Global Star Party. Members met at the Starfield Observatory at 1:00 PM to view the sun and to prepare for the night’s star party. Only a few members of the public came to look through the telescope. Unfortunately the event had not been well publicized. Photos in the full article. Grace, Brad, and Gene are getting the 10 inch Dob ready for solar viewing. Unfortunately there were no sunspots.... Read More...
Apr 28
2010
Two Days of GAM on a Maine Island
On April 11th,Joan Chamberlin, Kerry Kertes, and Ron Thompson from Southern Maine Astronomers and Brian Stephenson, a senior astronomy student from Cape Elizabeth High School, boarded a ferry for North Haven Island with all their astronomy gear and activities in tow. Joan and Ron are waiting for the ferry. Kerry, Ron, and Brian are ready for GAM. Where’s the ferry? After an hour and ten minutes on the ferry, North Haven village is in sight. Their hostess, Lisa Shields, greets them and takes them to the school, where they set up the solar telescopes, the big silver-domed portable planetarium, and... Read More...
Apr 28
2010
Global Star Party at Fernelmont,Belgium
Saturday april 24th, at Fernelmont , Belgium (about 30 km from Namur), we were 3 astronomy clubs to show the heavens to the public: Astronamur (Namur), Astrovega (Gembloux) and CAO (Ottignies) . The weather was perfect! We saw the Moon and Venus appeared right after sunset ; we saw M45 too, Mars with M44, and especially Saturn! And a big WOW for M13 ! It was a great sphere among club members with quite expensive devices right next to each other at the parking lot which had turned off lights for the event! I brought my Dobson Orion SkyQuest 12... Read More...
Apr 28
2010
Last event of GAM in Ranya district, Iraq
AGAIN…WE DON'T SAY GOOD BYE April, 24.2010 It is passed away so fast, as IYA2009, but definitely it left behind wonderful memories to talk and tell about for a long time. GAM was the mini (International year of Astronomy 2010 or IYA2010). AAAK make two teams to make the last event of GAM. 3 weeks ago we got an invitation from Ranya district Directorate of Education to visiting them and made activity in there. We was very pleased and we set the plan to be on Global Star Party on April, 24.2010. Second team prepared to a big star party... Read More...
Apr 28
2010
Continuing the MEP in Erbil, Iraq
April, 21.2010 Students of Fakir Mergasuri private high school requested Amateur Astronomers Association of Kurdistan (AAAK) to extending the exhibition - "Mobile Exhibition Project" (MEP) - for another day to let more students and guests watching the real beauty of the universe. Two of AAAK's members and other students volunteered to arrange the event on that day from 09:00 till 01:00 pm local time, and there was a great respond from all students from deferent classes. Nearby 500 students and guests outside of the high school joined the MEP on another successful day. Report by: Azhy Hasan Photos by: Aso... Read More...
Apr 28
2010
GAM in Indonesia
Jogja Astro Club (JAC) from Indonesia participated in the Global Astronomy Month last night, April, 22 2010. From the dark site in Parangkusumo Beach of Yogyakarta, 12 members of this amateur community tried to observe the Lyrids Meteor Shower on the night peak. Actualy this is not good site because light pollution was pretty bad. Not only that, the weather also not friendly, clouds covered most of the sky. However, we only could seen a few of meteors. Exactly 12 meteor before the sky was full covered by thick clouds so that no stars was seen. . It was decided... Read More...
Apr 28
2010
Sidewalk Marathon in Erding
Yesterday (Sunday 25 April), At 14:00, a joined exhibition with the local fine art club on the topic "the Tower of Babel" officially started our Star party. 2 hours later, EurAstro's President Jean-Luc Dighaye kicked of an incredible Astronomy Marathon in Erding, Germany. At around 16:00, his Coronado started duty in the middle of the "Schranneplatz", intiating a queue of people waiting in the line which disappeared only 8 hours later as the exhausted organizers collapsed under the demand! The twilight inevitably showed the EurAstro' device be replaced by standard telescopes, first to look at the moon, and later Saturn... Read More...
Apr 28
2010
Excellent weather over Germany
The Erding Sidewalk Astronomers are taking part in a multi-event, comprising a music festival, an art exhibition about the Tower of Babel (telescopes being part of it), a solar observation - on the pictures, Christophe Claude shows a solar prominence to a young lady and she definitely likes it! - and a sidewalk observing session till late night. POR is ready to reach for the Moon, says SPoC. Read More...
Apr 23
2010
Bad weather didn't stop Harmony Dark Sky Festival
We have had a busy April going to Harmony Florida The Dark Sky Festival 2010 we had a great Star Party with 3 main Astronomy clubs involved Brevard Astronomical Society (BAS), Melbourne Astronomical Society(MAS), and Central Florida Astronomical Society(CFAS). With the weather looking so bad, very cloudy we still managed to get over 6,000 persons to the event. All we could do for the people was show them the different types of telescopes we had and how they were used, we passed out Astronomy Magazine handouts, on the 25 brightest stars in the night sky. We also passed out Welcome... Read More...
Apr 23
2010
Astronomers Without Borders at NEAF
NEAF is the Northeast Astronomy Forum, an annual two day event featuring 130 on-site vendors, astronomy workshops, daily solar viewing, space and astronomy events for kids, and well-known speakers in the field of astronomy. It is held in Suffern, New York, which is about 30 minutes away from New York City. Basically NEAF is a giant toy store for astronomers!! People come from all over New England and even from the south to see the latest astronomy toys and purchase things they’ve been hoping for all year. This year NEAF took place April 17- 18th and had 5, 343 visitors.... Read More...
Apr 23
2010
GAM Lunar Week celebrated in Portland
On April 20th Greater Portland Astronomical Society (USA), joined by a member of Southern Maine Astronomers (USA), held a GAM LUNA EVENT on the campus of University of Southern Maine in Portland, Maine (USA). The event was for any members of the public or students of USM that happened to pass by and for members of a class at Southworth Planetarium, which is on that campus too. The class had over 30 people, who all joined our star party. This shows our telescope set up and waiting for the star party to begin on the USM campus. Several students came... Read More...
Apr 22
2010
Iraq brings Universe closer to you
1st successful test for a "Mobile Exhibition Project" (MEP) Amateur Astronomers Association of Kurdistan (AAAK) launched a "Mobile Exhibition Project" (MEP), it is main target will be give a chance to students to looking and learn much more about astronomy and universe through most wonderful selected Astro photos about - History of astronomy, modern astronomy equipments, galaxies, nebulas, the solar system and planets, most wonderful AAAK activities shots, AAAK honorary members around the world, AAAK's activities with Astronomers Without Borders and Sidewalk Astronomers. Beside knowledge, this project will encourage students specially to involve in astronomy. This event was specially made... Read More...
Apr 22
2010
The Solar System between your hands!
Saturn for All and Lunar Week Star Party in Erbil We were waiting for a long time for a clear sky and the time is come. On April, 20.2010 star party makers of AAAK are gathered together to make another star party, but this time through (GAM's Lunar Week). The party begins at 06:15 pm local time (15:15 UT) before sun setting behind layer of Cirrus clouds which they were generous enough to let the people looking at the Moon through it. Venus was there shining very brightly and it was the first target to observing. As always, the lunar... Read More...
Apr 22
2010
North meets South virtually to share the joy of Peace
For 30 Days of Star Peace on April 17th members of Southern Maine Astronomers and Astronomical Society of Northern New England from Maine , and AWB member Mike Uberty from New York connected via Skype with Marcelo Souza and members of the Louis Cruls Astronomy Club in Brazil . The Maine clubs had wanted to show the Brazilian friends what the Northeast Telescope Forum (NEAF) was like, but were not able to make a connection from there, so they connected at their hotel room to Marcelo and his members at the observatory at his university. Marcelo and his friends showed... Read More...
Apr 22
2010
GAM Saturn Watch in Maine USA
On April 14th, four members of the Greater Portland Astronomical Society in Maine held a public Saturn Watch GAM Event at the Riverside Golf Course. Of course light pollution was pretty bad, but we still managed to show visitors views of Venus, Mars, Saturn, and the Orion Nebula before clouds came in. We also showed some of the constellations. About 12 people joined us for this event. During this event we explained how stars are being formed in the Orion Nebula and why it doesn't look like the beautiful images they see in magazines and the internet. The following pictures... Read More...
Apr 20
2010
GAM Outreach Events in Southern Maine, USA
As a member of Astronomical Society of Northern New England, I did outreach events at Shapleigh Elementary School during 3 separate days. On April 2 she worked with a third grade on showing them some of the beautiful things they can see in the night sky, explaining what constellations are, and telling them the myth about Cassiopeia, Perseus, Andromeda. In the afternoon of that day she did two presentations about supernovae and the life cycle of stars for two fifth grades. On April 5 Joan explained lunar and solar eclipses to two second grades and a third grade. They made... Read More...
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