Far East Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/far-east/ Astronomy for a better world! Wed, 13 Nov 2019 07:40:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://astro4dev.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-03_OAD_symbol_colour_2-32x32.jpg Far East Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/far-east/ 32 32 Overview https://astro4dev.org/overview-37/ Wed, 13 Nov 2019 07:40:20 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=18985 By this project Irkutsk Regional Astronomical Organisation (IRAO) and Irkutsk Planetarium (IP) will make the school subject of astronomy more practical, find and inspire the amateur astronomers and give the people a chance to look at the night sky. All these serve the socio-economic development of the remote territories and give the talented school children [...]

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]]> update: Final report https://astro4dev.org/17578/ Mon, 30 Jul 2018 12:09:22 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=17578 The educational system of Myanmar is government-operated. There are 158 Universities in total under the management of Ministry of Education. There are three types of Universities, the Arts and Science Universities including our University (Mandalay University), University of Computer Science and Technological Universities. Role of Astronomy Education in Myanmar Universities has diminished for decades due [...]

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]]> Overview of Project https://astro4dev.org/overview-of-project-raermu/ Tue, 07 Feb 2017 08:07:38 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=15834 Proper education in Astronomy in schools and Universities is a significant factor in cultivating students to become scientific minded youths. Observations of stars and astronomical objects with appropriate telescopes would help students studying this subject more interesting. The proposed project aims to address the following challenges: (i) lack of human resources (ii) lack of syllabus [...]

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]]> Final Report https://astro4dev.org/final-report-23/ Wed, 25 Jan 2017 09:21:39 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=15700 Cosmic Light: Bring Galileo’s starry messenger to Vietnam With the help of OAD-IAU, we are targeting at becoming the main hub to coordinate amateur astronomy activities as well as to circulate information on astronomical events, and science development in the country. 1.Translation of the book Galileo’s “Starry Messenger”: We finished the first draft of the translation [...]

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]]> Update https://astro4dev.org/update-20/ Thu, 21 Jan 2016 12:15:52 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=14769 With the help of OAD-IAU, we are targeting at becoming the main hub to coordinate amateur astronomy activities as well as to circulate information on astronomical events, and science development in the country. Translation of the book Galileo’s “Starry Messenger”: We finished the first draft of the translation and publish it in one of the website of amateur [...]

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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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]]> Final Report https://astro4dev.org/update-14/ Wed, 06 Jan 2016 08:58:57 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=14506 The final report can be downloaded in pdf

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]]> Final Report https://astro4dev.org/final-report/ Thu, 10 Dec 2015 13:33:53 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=14242 Goal NIATW was addressed to advanced students and researchers, mainly from South-East Asian countries where such training opportunities and adequate facilities are not always readily available. The focus of this first NIATW was about time-variable phenomena in Astrophysics, with emphasis on short time scales from days to sub-seconds. Examples are: stellar pulsation, oscillations, occultations, transits, [...]

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]]> Overview of the project https://astro4dev.org/overview-of-the-project-63/ Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:37:50 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=13374 Project leader: Quang Nguyen Luong, quang.nguyen-luong@nao.ac.jp Project location: Vietnam Project description: The last two IAU grants has done something that is unprecedented: we manage to get the entire amateur astronomy communities together to work together and enjoy astronomy together. The two annual meetings have attracted almost 100 participants from more than 10 cities each times. [...]

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]]> Overview of the project https://astro4dev.org/overview-of-the-project-61/ Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:28:43 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=13362 Project leader: Bing Li, libing@bjp.org.cn Project location: China Project description: Our ancestors were closer to the night sky than we are. Celestial objects are mentioned in many Chinese ancient poems. But few people know them when they recite the poetry. The sky nearly never changes. We see the same sky as Li Bai, a Chinese famous [...]

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