Project leader Bonnie Thurber, b-thurber@northwestern.edu Project location: Digital: Chile, China, Nepal, Russia, South Africa, and the United States Project description: Using only the sunlight striking the Earth and a wooden dowel, students can measure the circumference of the earth. Eratosthenes did it over 2,000 years ago. In Cosmos, Carl Sagan shared the process by which Eratosthenes […]
Category Archives: Central and South Asia
Project leader: Raka Dabhade, rakadabhade@gmail.com Project location: Pune India Project description: The TARA Observatory is a unique project which proposes to combine a highly configurable robotic telescope array with an innovative sensor array network. TARA is an Indian word for a Star and also an ancient ceremonial site in Ireland with astronomical roots, hence it […]
Project leader: Binil Aryal, binil.aryal@uibk.ac.at Project location: Nepal Project description: Because of the effective outcome of previous schools of astronomy, Government of Nepal has decided to provide regular support to the national school. The proposed school will be the third but very important step that will combine and extend both previous schools. In this school, participants […]
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