111th Posting - and the IYA leaves its mark on Even 14 months after his death: still immerses the IYA 2009 every few days in any message, where it usually refers to projects that were initiated as part of Astronomy year. • The EU supports
UNAWE , a program that existed before the IYA was one of its cornerstones But more Press Releases to EUNAWE
here, here
,
here and here
. Scopes • Galileo - a-IYA Cornerstone - and UNAWE
make headlines in Venezuela and
in the Philippines the Galileo scopes have arrived. • The Cosmic Diary, another IYA-Cornerstone is
now for the SETI Institute moved and would now like to expand . • The Galileo Teacher Training Program - a cornerstone - is active in Latin America
.
• The Proceedings of the IYA-session "Accelerating the rate of Astronomical Discovery" of the IAU GA 2009 are freely available
: exciting papers on the nature of astronomical discovery (with wonderful anecdotes, such as the pulsar contribution). The Proceedings of the 2009's are
Women in Astronomy conference since . • In a day-care center in Halle, an experimental project conducted
further, thanks to a donation bank, and - inspired by memories of IYA's - is also a telescope ago. • A children's book with ethnic Astro Stories
is in Nova Scotia, Canada, published , a IYA Legacy. • Two mountains in New Zealand - in the Kepler Mountains! -
were named after astronomer - an initiative from the IYA, which has now led to success. • 'Friday Nights, Celestial Lights' in Texas since the IYA at the Univ. of TX at San Antonio
offered every month. • And a long interview with Pedro
Russo, the former IYA Coordinator, and a greeting from him
UNAWE as the new manager.
Astronomy & public worldwide: the
1. Episode of the revamped online sternstunde with others this blogger, the 10th
CAP Journal and the first
Newsletter the Astronomy Outreach Foundation (which seems to be borne mainly by the U.S. trade Astro but is non-profit). • Thoughts on Twitter
in astronomy (somewhat confusing). •
In India, children can win a trip to Space Camp in the United States. • Astro-teacher training in the U.S.
with NASA's help. • In Boston, the Planetarium has been upgraded
(
more ), in Stuttgart, working in the
, plus
planetarium history general. • In Canberra create a
National Astronomy Museum for Australia. • There are impressions of the great BBC TV Astro 3-piece in January's
here, here
,
here, here
and
here (from here
). • What is astrobiology, you can now read in a comic
(well, 'graphic novel'). • The DPG promotes
with the Einstein-Slam a physics version of the ever popular Science Slams. • And a duet with violinist
radioactive particles from space.
Citizen Science with new successes: The Planet Hunters
have in the Kepler-light curves
exoplanet candidates discovered escaped the Kepler software;
also on the great Kepler PK the PH were mentioned (about minutes 43 to 46). • The Milky Way
Project imagines with
a poster and a best-of
of cosmic bubbles. • Article
of Tom Krajci , the place for telescopes is available, and various
Pro / Am ideas. • A price for an amateur
that helps professionals. • General
praise for amateur astronomers , In this paper
and
Blog . •
AAVSO 100 years - even the kind of citizen-science
. • An amateur
as a co-discoverer exoplanets - here is the paper
. • A 10-year-old
a supernova what eg
here, here
,
discovered here ,
here and here
caused a stir. • Citizen Science
at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago . • The Virtual Observatory
for all
.
light pollution as a problem is not convincing everyone : Sometimes it comes to counter-movements like
now in Arizona (with heavy reader discussion)! In California, they do have
's is darker. • The Channel Island of Sark
is the first "Dark Sky Iceland" the world, and everybody has a home here: Article
here, here
,
here, here
,
here and here
- in the UK is
Dark Sky tourism on the rise. • In a survey
Bonner citizens to saving ideas for decorative lighting
also been mobilized. • A study on
Night Light & cancer (also
summarized here), in the opinion of medical experts but not particularly convincing. • Fewer lamps
on a highway in Maryland.
Otherwise is now the Year of Chemistry - but has
who's noticed? In an Austrian this article has the merit of IYA as before. • And a
study on science communication in Germany " ends with optimism.
