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April 2, 2009

Preparing for 100 Hours of Astronomy part 2

So I made it through most of today without boring the kids doing the live disaster session today, hooray! some of them knew what a global […]
April 2, 2009

Preparing for 100 Hours of Astronomy!

I’ve been rather quite posting lately, and I’ve fallen into the scenario that many astronomers face, grant writing! Its taken up so much of my time […]
April 2, 2009

Preparing for 100 Hours of Astronomy!

I’ve been rather quite posting lately, and I’ve fallen into the scenario that many astronomers face, grant writing! Its taken up so much of my time […]
February 25, 2009

Preparing for National Science and Engineering Week

Phew! Its early evening and I am breathing a sigh of relief, it might be one of the only free evenings I have in a long […]
February 2, 2009

Brrr… no clear skies tonight, its snowing!

Well, here we are edging towards spring and what does the weather decide to go and do??? SNOW!!! Its freezing here at the moment and being […]
January 29, 2009

Getting ready for Yuri's Night 2009

This year, like every year, Yuri’s night takes place on April 12th and is a celebration of humanity’s achievements in space. Each April 12, people from […]
January 22, 2009

Cultural Heritage of Astronomical Obervatories, IAU Symposium 260

The next talk at the session on astronomical heritage is by Professor Gudrun Wolfschmidt, Germany, Cultural Heritage of Astronomical Observatories. This subject is relates to my […]
January 22, 2009

Live Blog from the IAU 260 Symposium, S4 Preserving the astronomical heritages

Here I am again, live from the IAU symposium, just after lunch with the sessions starting at 2pm. There are a number of parallel sessions running […]
January 22, 2009

Live Blog from the IAU 260 Symposium, S12 Astronomy, the Media and Society, Part 4

After the Coffee break I caught 2 of the talks, the participants followed the inspirational journey made by Gernot Meiser from Germany to observe a solar […]