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May 10-11, 2007. Hands-On-Universe
Holds Teachers’ Workshop in Kenya. Excerpt:
For high school students in the Republic of Kenya in
Eastern Africa, star-gazing was enhanced by Hands-On-Universe
(HOU), .... On May 10th and 11th, HOU held an Internet
teleconference workshop for nearly a dozen teachers
at Kenya High School, a national residency school for
girls. This is the first HOU workshop to be held on
the continent of Africa. ...“There are certain
images and concepts that transcend backgrounds and
capture everyone's imaginations. Turning a telescope
to the sky opens that view to everyone and spurs them
to learn more. The HOU program provides an excellent
opportunity to continue and spread this activity and
interest,” said George Smoot, an astrophysicist
at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), who
shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for his own cosmological
discoveries. Full
article at Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics. |
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Annual
Hands-On Universe Conference
June 25-28, 2007 at Yerkes Observatory
& Aurora University
Agenda
and Presentations
from the 2006 Annual HOU Conference
2007
Global HOU (GHOU) Conference in Tokyo,
Japan.
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Photo shows Judith Goldhaber with HOU
founder, Carl Pennypacker, and Stephen Hawking after
a reception in his honor that featured the Oakland Symphony
chorus performing some songs from "Falling Through
a Hole in the Air (by Judith Goldhaber with HOU founder,
Carl Pennypacker). Stephen is writing "That was
really good!!!" on his eyebrow-activated writing/speaking
computer.
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You are welcome to visit the EU-HOU web
site and download the Windows Media movie
of the Lunar - Saturn occultation of March 2, 2007.
See also Saturn occultation of 22 May 2007 at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3nk6wvnrCA
--Lech Mankiewicz
International Asteroid
Search Campaign, February-March 2007.
See 24 March 2007 news article "Teens'
far-out find" about asteroid discovery by Lycia Vang
with two of her Cordova High classmates [Sacramento Bee].
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Comet McNaught
21 Jan 2007: Kaoru Kimura, HOU TRA from Tokyo reports now we
can see comet McNaught in the southern hemisphere after sunset.
The i-Can
project team has a web cam (constellation camera called i-CAN)
in
Chile. Everyone can access our website and watch setting comet
McNaught. I did image capture and made web page at http://www.k5.dion.ne.jp/~kaoru07/
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teacher Jeff Adkins and students in the Antioch ESPACE
Academy at Deer Valley High School (DVHS) have observed
Active Galactic Nuclei on the Spitzer Infrared Space
Telescope as well as with ground based scopes. Project
results are online at http://www.espaceacademy.com (click
on the Spitzer Space Telescope picture).
DVHA students also did well at their county science fair. See
details on the HOU
Teacher News page and the ESPACE
press release page. Many thanks to all of the programs from
NOAO, the Spitzer Science Center, HOU, and elsewhere that allowed
our students to succeed.
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M16 - First light image using the 32" F/4 scope
of Astronomical Research Institute (ARI). The exposure
time is 4" to keep from blooming the bright stars
in the field with the STL 1001E. We expect to put in
a 1.5x photographic Barlow field flattener tomorrow to
operate at F/6. F/8 is p[ossible using a 2x photographic
Barlow. Limiting magnitude should be 21.5 (in 5min).
Currently 20.6 (in 30 sec). By Bob Holmes. See ARI
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