Project location: Mongolia Project leader: Tuguldur Sukhbold, sukhbold@ucolick.org In Mongolia, astronomy is not part of the standard high school curriculum and only a few schools even address it as part of the physics class. In the whole country only a few schools have telescopes, but almost all of them are too old and unusable. Therefore, in order to promote the teaching […]
Author Archives: Ram Venugopal
Project title: Astronomy for the extremely ill or traumatically injured children and their families, USA Project leader: Dr. Donald Lubowich The purpose of this project is to provide telescope observations and astronomy demonstrations for children, their siblings and adult family members staying at the Ronald McDonald Houses (RMH) of Chicagoland (RMH-Chicago) in conjunction the children’s […]
Below are images taken from the astronomy event at the Ronald McDonald House in Chicago. It was clear at 4 pm but clouded up at 7:30. We used hands-on optics cardboard tube telescopes, used STARburst candy to simulate planetary formation, and had a family do a scale model of the solar system. [nggallery id=65]
Today South Africans will wake up with heavy hearts as we mourn the passing of Madiba. We will fly flags at half mast and we will have moments of silence before official gatherings. We will weep openly outside his home and we will fight back tears in our places of work. We will remember where […]
Project title: Chinese Ancient Poetry Astrophotography, China Project leader: Ms. Bing Li Our ancestors were closer to the night sky than we are. Celestial objects such as the Sun, the Moon, the Milky Way, star constellations and comets are mentioned in many Chinese ancient poems and stories. The sky nearly never changes. We see the […]