The Travelling Telescope Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/the-travelling-telescope/ Astronomy for a better world! Thu, 17 May 2018 06:38:00 +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 The Travelling Telescope Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/the-travelling-telescope/ 32 32 Video: Travelling Telescope https://astro4dev.org/video-travelling-telescope/ Thu, 17 May 2018 06:38:00 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=17358 Documentary by Al Jazeera on the Travelling Telescope project [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_N8OKkgP-k[/embedyt]

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]]> Update https://astro4dev.org/update-8/ Tue, 15 Dec 2015 09:23:11 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=14354 The Travelling Telescope is a project that focuses on promoting Astronomy in Africa. From January 2015 our team started an outreach astronomy project in rural coastal Kenya visiting schools and teaching students. We recruited university students from the University of Nairobi with degrees in Astronomy & Physics. After interviews to determine we had picked a team of enthusiasts we [...]

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]]> Overview of the project https://astro4dev.org/overview-of-the-project-51/ Wed, 11 Mar 2015 14:56:46 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=13320 Project leader: Susan Oduori, smurabana@gmail.com Project location: Kenya Project description: The goal of the Traveling telescope is to promote science learning to a wide range of Kenyan schools in various locations exchanging knowledge about the sky through direct observations of celestial bodies using state of the art telescopes. In addition to direct observing we also teach [...]

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