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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)

The Lord of The Ring

yai I’m back to Bandung again…

Last Sunday I went to Lampung for an annular solar eclipse expedition. It was cool.That was the first time I led an expedition team to an area outside Java island. And the worst part was I am really bad with map… so the result… we were lost several time in our way to find the hotel.

We hold several event there such as general lecturer, eclipse observation and star party In Lampung, we had cooperation with Students Association of Physics Department in Lampung University (UNILA).

We started the day with general lecturer about Eclipse and how to observe solar eclipse. At 2.30 we complete all preparation to watch the eclipse. many people gather in football field to observe the sun.

Although the cloud cover disturb our observation several time, but all in all we could watched almost all contact of the eclipse. And the best part was … I watched the ring of fire in the afternoon sky. It was beautiful.

Here are several picture of our activities on January 26th during the annular solar eclipse. I took the annular solar eclipse picture with my digital camera so it wasn’t really good.

hiding behind the cloud

gathered to watch solar eclipse

watched the eclipse with sunglasses

the ring. Taken with my Canon PowerShot A570 IS.

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  1. Lee
    January 30th, 2009 at 12:00 am

    Nice photos Vivi!

  2. Avivah Yamani
    January 31st, 2009 at 12:59 am

    thanks Lee

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