2014 Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/2014/ Astronomy for a better world! Mon, 20 Mar 2017 08:11:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://astro4dev.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-03_OAD_symbol_colour_2-32x32.jpg 2014 Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/2014/ 32 32 Astroproject Documentary https://astro4dev.org/astroproject-documentary/ Mon, 20 Mar 2017 08:11:43 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=16107 “From Dust to Stars” is the first film in the series of the ongoing project Astroproject. This infotainment film with a runtime of 30 mins takes you on an enriching journey of how stars are formed. It introduces to the audience the basic concepts of Astronomy by answering questions like, why do some stars shine brighter than the others?what [...]

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]]> Final report – WAISSYA 2015 https://astro4dev.org/final-report-waissya-2015/ Fri, 25 Mar 2016 09:41:13 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=17180 The West African International Summer School for Young Astronomers (WAISSYA) 2015 is the second organized school after the one held in October 2013. The school was organized and taught by a collaboration of astronomers from the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics / University of British Columbia, the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the [...]

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]]> Report and article https://astro4dev.org/report-and-article/ Sun, 28 Feb 2016 10:26:29 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=15288 Following are articles on the summer school from the Canadian Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics IAU Newsletter, 2014 (page 11-14) Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics

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]]> Final Report https://astro4dev.org/final-report-9/ Wed, 20 Jan 2016 08:24:01 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=14757 The project has developed “A Practical Science Communication Guide”, downloadable in pdf

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]]> Update https://astro4dev.org/update-18/ Thu, 14 Jan 2016 15:59:53 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=14684 The mid-term report can be downloaded in pdf

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]]> update: Final report https://astro4dev.org/update-final-report-3/ Fri, 25 Dec 2015 10:30:17 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=18153 This educational project was coordinated by the Innovation Centre Mill of Knowledge (CNMW) and New Space Foundation. The aim of the project was to popularize knowledge about astronomy among children and youth from Toruń and Kuyavian-Pomeranian voivodship. In the period from June to July 2014, experienced educators visited 20 branches in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. A total of [...]

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]]> Final Report https://astro4dev.org/update-12/ Fri, 18 Dec 2015 08:05:54 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=14394 Zooniverse projects are mostly built to deadlines by, and for, people who use browsers on high speed connections in Western Europe and North America. This has created a bias over the years that has lead to an mostly Englishspeaking volunteerbase and a skew away from lowbandwidth compatibility and nonstandard accessibility. Put simply: the Zooniverse has not historically paid attention to accessibility or to international [...]

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]]> Spreading science education, one telescope at a time https://astro4dev.org/spreading-science-education-one-telescope-at-a-time/ Mon, 15 Jun 2015 11:57:43 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=18334 The following article is from the website of University of California Santa Cruz, where one of the project coordinators is completing his graduate studies in astrophysics. By Peggy Townsend If not for a down-on-his luck Mongolian astronomer with a penchant for drinking, 44 schools in that rugged country might not have telescopes with which to peer [...]

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]]> Final report https://astro4dev.org/final-report-38/ Fri, 12 Jun 2015 16:03:07 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=18618 The AstroTwinCoLO 2014 Meeting was the second event celebrated as part of the Astronomy Twinning Program between the University of Antioquia (Colombia) and Leiden Observatory (Leiden). The meeting was held in Medellin (Colombia) between August 19-29, 2014. The goal was to continue with a 5-year long collaboration effort between the two institutions that started in [...]

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]]> Final Report https://astro4dev.org/final-report-5/ Sun, 14 Dec 2014 15:53:43 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=14678 The final report can be downloaded in pdf

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