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The Project:

The Cosmic Diary is not just about astronomy. It's more about what it is like to be an astronomer.

The Cosmic Diary aims to put a human face on astronomy: professional scientists will blog in text and images about their lives, families, friends, hobbies and interests, as well as their work, their latest research findings and the challenges that face them. The bloggers represent a vibrant cross-section of female and male working astronomers from around the world, coming from five different continents. Outside the observatories, labs and offices they are musicians, mothers, photographers, athletes, amateur astronomers. At work, they are managers, observers, graduate students, grant proposers, instrument builders and data analysts.

Throughout this project, all the bloggers will be asked to explain one particular aspect of their work to the public. In a true exercise of science communication, these scientists will use easy-to-understand language to translate the nuts and bolts of their scientific research into a popular science article. This will be their challenge.

Task Group:

Mariana Barrosa (Portugal, ESO ePOD)
Nuno Marques (Portugal, Web Developer)
Lee Pullen (UK, Freelance Science Communicator)
André Roquette (Portugal, ESO ePOD)

Jack Oughton (UK, Freelance Science Communicator)
Alice Enevoldsen (USA, Pacific Science Center)
Alberto Krone Martins (Brazil, Uni. S. Paulo / Uni. Bordeaux)
Kevin Govender (South Africa, S. A. A. O.)
Avivah Yamani (Indonesia, Rigel Kentaurus)
Henri Boffin (Belgium, ESO ePOD)

Eclipse Preparation

what is silence means to you? Sometime I need silence moment to refresh and calm my mind. And I really need it now. After a long busy week, now we decided to watch the annular solar eclipse in Lampung instead of Banten. Well.. we have cooperation with university there to hold studium general and parallel workshop session for students, teachers and public. On January 26th, we will observe eclipse and hold star party at night with public there.

Hmm.. so now I am working on fund raising proposals with hope and faith we will be provided with everything we need. My solar filters arrived 2 days ago, so we could start to make solar observing tools and preparing all other material for astronomy workshop there.

We only had 10 days left before we travel to Lampung.. so hope everything will be fine.

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  2. SINTYA
    February 9th, 2009 at 2:02 pm

    halo avivah , apa khabar ? so lama nyanda kabar.. minta nomor HP kamu dong vi , punyaku ilang? ingat zn ama aku ? teman smu di ambones..

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