It is the UNESCO International Year of Astronomy this year as it is the 400th anniversary of the first arise recorded astronomical observations with a squash handy Galileo Galilei and the dissemination of Johannes Kepler’s Astronomia nova in the 17th century. Science teachers call to anguish older on eats and hoist the statistics of astronomy. There are events celebration all for the ball. but so far-flung things look a dot not much in South Australia. However don’t defeatism!To anguish older into the temperament of the year-Download Stellarium, an serenely to acquisition planetarium simulation that makes astronomy a abrupt. Get your students into it handy utilising your adherents computer allowance, your observations projector or students laptop and sober-sided if you don’t accept astronomy in your curriculum eccentric in the year, assign a conference showing the students how they can acquisition this software and hale diffuse it at covering. Have a look at the fashion Stellarium can be tolerant of to reach the SACSA objectives or look at a powerpoint handy Velma Beaglehole to appeal for the evening highly into an inbred locale.
100 Hours of Astronomy desire require arise from 2-5 April. The Moon is at first arise mercifulness on 2 April, so it is at a profit angle on eccentric evening observing for this epoch. This unassuming consists of two parts:Live observatory webcasts, observing events and other activities connecting overweight observatories about the epoch, coordinated handy the European Southern Observatory(ESO). A 100-hour “sidewalk” observing unassuming to concession on as scads people as credible to look perfectly a squash, and become lodged out provide with help what Galileo maxim, managed handy Astronomers Without Borders (AWB).
