I arrived in South Africa on the 15 of March 2014, delightfully met by an old, young-by-age and full-of-life acquaintance from Ethiopia, Dr Solomon Belay! A colleague from Zambia, Mr Prospery Simpemba, and another from Namibia, Dr. Michael Backes, were also there, getting ready to attend Scifest Africa, the biggest science festival in Africa, where […]
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Brief experience evaluation: Athanasios Taramopoulos, Project leader of the OAD funded project “Astronomical Measurements in Ancient Greece” To the IAU Office of Astronomy for Development: Firstly, I would like to congratulate you on the initiative to spread Astronomy to ordinary people, school and university students. It is a really amazing science and draws everybody’s attention and excitement. […]
My Two Weeks (April 24 – May 6, 2014) Visit to University of Cape Town and South African Observatory (SAAO) by Dr. Romanus Eze, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. I first visited Bloemfontein, where I presented a paper titled “Suzaku Observations of Fe_Kalpha line in some Hard X-ray Emitting Symbiotic Stars […]
Today we speak about the Raspberry Pi. In the Computing world the Raspberry Pi has been the talk of the town for a while – actually for the last year or so. What is it? The Raspberry Pi is definitely not a piece of cake but a small credit card size fully functional computer which […]
Everybody likes space. The aura of mystery around the universe tickles one’s interest like nothing else. Or at least, that is what you would expect. In practice, people are often only initially fascinated by the idea of astronomy, and lose interest once something has to be learned. Ironically, while the interest in astronomy is decreasing, […]
