Have Fun with Astronomy!
The celebration for the year of Astronomy has already began with the New Year setting in and heralding a boost for all things astronomy. There is a great piece of article from my own favourite astro magazine, Sky and Telescope, which reflects on how the Year of Astronomy can be a significant period to help people get interested and learn the wonders of space and the Universe.
The best part of this activity was pointed out here and I totally agree! It also give much profound acknowledgement to the purpose and beauty of our sense of sight that gazes into 'eternity'. Our pair of eyes besides being the 'windows to our souls' can also be the very ones that can help us "learn about the most amazing things in existence."
The fun part about the IYA program, when it officially begins on 15th January 2009, is that it offers participants in an IYA event to take home an easy-to-assemble and easy-to-use telescope for free! That is the ideal plan, so it still leaves to see how this will be done. Nonetheless, that a free telescope, which matches the similar one which Galileo first used to see the surface of the Moon, is given, sure sounds pretty cool by my standards! A child getting that for the first time ought to open his/her eyes to the great amazement that is 'out there'!
Meanwhile, a wonderful activity with specially prepared observation worksheets from this Japanese participating IYA site has already done the work in making any night observations with those free scopes or one's own home telescope a cinche to undertake! Fun, too!
Which reminds me to break my lethargy, brave the cold and start using the Bresser scope!...
The best part of this activity was pointed out here and I totally agree! It also give much profound acknowledgement to the purpose and beauty of our sense of sight that gazes into 'eternity'. Our pair of eyes besides being the 'windows to our souls' can also be the very ones that can help us "learn about the most amazing things in existence."
The fun part about the IYA program, when it officially begins on 15th January 2009, is that it offers participants in an IYA event to take home an easy-to-assemble and easy-to-use telescope for free! That is the ideal plan, so it still leaves to see how this will be done. Nonetheless, that a free telescope, which matches the similar one which Galileo first used to see the surface of the Moon, is given, sure sounds pretty cool by my standards! A child getting that for the first time ought to open his/her eyes to the great amazement that is 'out there'!
Meanwhile, a wonderful activity with specially prepared observation worksheets from this Japanese participating IYA site has already done the work in making any night observations with those free scopes or one's own home telescope a cinche to undertake! Fun, too!
Which reminds me to break my lethargy, brave the cold and start using the Bresser scope!...
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