PMA International Year of Astronomy Celebration

Local interest

What are McDonald Astronomers Doing this week?

http://mcdonaldobservatory.org/research/

HRC Exhibit Other Worlds: Rare Astronomical Works

http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/2009/astronomical/

Cool stuff

Next generation of giant telescopes:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/07/telescopes/mcnally-photography

10 telescopes that changed our view of the universe slide show

http://www.scientificamerican.com/slideshow.cfm?id=ten-telescopes-galileo

The World at Night Videos:

http://www.twanight.org/newtwan/photos.asp?ID=3001881&Sort=Region

http://www.twanight.org/newtwan/photos.asp?ID=3001822&Sort=Region

http://www.twanight.org/newtwan/photos.asp?ID=3002078&Sort=Region

Natl. Geographic  interactive timelind a history of telescopes:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/07/telescopes/telescopes-interactive

Early Telescopes visible in Brueghel paintings

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=17th-century-brueghel-paintings-tra-2009-10-05

Get Involved!

Great World Wide Star Count on October 9 - 23, 2009. Star Count will be featured as part of the Dark Skies Awareness

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/citizen_science/starcount/

Go Observe!  October object is Andromeda:

http://astronomy2009.nasa.gov/observe.htm

Galilean Nights activity Oct. 22-24

http://www.astronomy2009.org/globalprojects/cornerstones/galilean

Dark Skies Awareness

http://www.darkskiesawareness.org/

IYA sites

Galileo’s Telescope 400^th anniversary, Aug. 25, 2009 

http://www.google.com/#q=Galileo%27s+telescope&ct=galileo09&oi=ddle&fp=1&cad=b

IYA – 400 years of telescopes being used for outreach

http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/435/

IYA -  400 year anniversary of Johannes Kepler’s work ”Astronomia Nova” – the first two laws of planetary motion

http://kepler.nasa.gov/johannes/iya.html

Google Doodle, Aug. 25, 2009

IYA U.S.

http://astronomy2009.us/

 

---

Robert Lee Moore Hall (RLM) 4.200
512-495-4610
pma@lib.utexas.edu