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Member Reports from Thilina Heenatigala
Apr 20
2010
North Meets South for GAM
GAM opened in Maine, USA with Southern Maine Astronomers from Portland, Maine on April 1st. The club was supposed to have the event at the Southworth Planetarium, but had to move to another location because of a conflict. We made the best of this by meeting at the house of member, George Whitney. The event was a conjunction of Venus and Mercury at sunset. During the meeting, the group connected with Marcelo Souza from Brazil. Since it was very short notice, only Marcelo from his group was able to meet with us there on Skype. All the members took turns... Read More...
Apr 15
2010
Don’t lose the chance when it comes
Fastest and most sudden sidewalk event of AAAK Location: In front of Hawler High School Date: Tuesday - April, 13. 2010 Time: 04:30 AM – 05:10 PM local time. By: Azhy Hasan / April, 14.2010 Photos by: Aso Abdulrazzaq Thank God! Finally the weather changed before sunset by 1.5 hours from patches of clouds and dust to clear sky, the PST Coronado telescope was there waiting for an action, we take it outside the AAAK's office and put it in an open square in front of Hawler High School. It was a golden chance to let too many of students... Read More...
Apr 15
2010
Navigation and Astronomy in Vienna AUSTRIA
About 70 people visited the interesting lecture of Matthias Wolf about "Navigation and Astronomy" - a real globally theme! 70 people more in Austria who got to know about GAM and Astronomers Without Borders ;-) The planned observing session after the talk didn't happen because the weather was very wet and rainy :-( In this lecture Wolf explained the essentials of astronomical navigation using three-dimensional computer graphics. What looked like a simple screensaver turned out being right angel triangles in a Thalescircle, converting and subscribing a dangerous coastal landscape needful to circumnavigate. The simple geometric landscape converts to the earth... Read More...
Apr 15
2010
Iraqi first SunDay Activity
Always there is plan-B! Location: Fakir Mirgasuri Private High School Date: Sunday - April,11. 2010 Time: 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM local time. By: Aso Razaq Salih Translated: Azhy Hasan Still there were clouds and muddy skies covered Erbil city and whole Iraq, but these things will not stop presentations. Mr.Sherzad Ali Muhammad, our active member has volunteered to present an exciting subject about universe and the position of the sun, and then he turned to the born and the fate of the sun according o the recorded events in our galaxies. This presentation takes nearby 1:30 minutes after plenty... Read More...
Apr 15
2010
GAM at Blackrock Castle Observatory in Ireland
GAM 2010 kicked off in Ireland on Friday April 2 at Blackrock Castle Observatory's monthly event First Fridays at the Castle. Global Astronomy Month was highlighted to all visitors. A total of 35 attended the Cork Science Café. Tony O Hanlon’s Lecture "2012 is it the End?" had an audience of 60 StarGazing in association with Denis Walsh and the Cork Astronomy Club – 40 plus attended in the Castle grounds. Mercury and Venus were the observed targets until 8.15pm then the 5 telescopes were turned to Orion, the Moon, Saturn and other targets. Cosmic Calendars workshops for families had... Read More...
Apr 15
2010
It's a Sun Day: another GAM2010 event in Nepal!
Nepal Astronomical Society (NASo) organized an event to mark SunDay , global program of GAM2010 here in Nepal on Sunday, April 11, 2010. The program was organized in H.B. Complex during 14:00-17:00 Hrs for the public to view the Sun through 8 Inch Dobsonian and some solar eclipse glasses. Unfortunately we could not show Sun spot to the participants during the event :-( There were more than 50 participants of different ages with remarkable presence of women and children. During the event, Rishi Shah, president of NASO explained to the public why NASO is conducting such outreach events in Nepal.... Read More...
Apr 12
2010
Telescope Workshop and Saturn Watch gets under way Timaru New Zealand.
GAM got under way in South Canterbury New Zealand on Saturday evening. We started off with about 15 telescopes coming out from the closet for our telescope workshop. The novice astronomers recieved help from many of our more expierenced members, setting up there mounts, finderscopes, and assisting with eyepiece selection. Several went away with membership forms as well, a very benefical two hours. At 7PM the star party started, with 8 scopes from our members, everything from 90mm Mak to 12 inch dobs. We had about ... 150 attend, seeing conditions were great, everybody had a good time, and many... Read More...
Apr 12
2010
SPACE started GAM celebrations in New Delhi, INDIA
SPACE strated GAM celebrations in New Delhi, India by having a gathering of students for the 26th anniversary of first indian in space on 5th of April at Russian Centre of Science and Culture. The programme had presentations and Videos of Rakesh Sharma's Flight to space in Soyuz T-11. Mr. D K Bedi, Principal of Apeejay School, Pitampura addressed thye students and told them about the importance of astronomy and space sciences. Mr Sergey, Deputy director, science and technology, RCSC also talked about the russian-india collaborations in space sciences. C B Devgun, president SPACE, gave a presentation on the space... Read More...
Apr 11
2010
More GAM 2010 in New Zealand
Levin Stargazers & Foxton Beach Astro Society joined the global celebrations! Sometimes the weather gods smile upon you, and last night was one of those evenings when they are not just smiling but grinning from ear to ear! What a fantastic night to kick off GAM for Levin Stargazers and Foxton Beach Astronomical Society, who combined forces to host our first GAM event, the "Telescope Hunt". Admittedly, not as exciting as the name may suggest, but the idea was for the public to "hunt out" their old telescopes and bring them along for some pointers on how to use them... Read More...
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