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| Light Pollution | Awareness on the problems created by light pollution | | Bob Crelin
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| Itinerant Art Exhibition | Itinerant art exhibition with distribution of outreach materials. Astronomical images exhibited in different venues all around the world. | |
Dr. Guillermo Tenorio Tagle
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| Sidewalk Astronomy | Give as many people as possible the chance to look through a telescope | | Dr. Rick Fienberg
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| Activities for small telescopes | To prepare activities to use the small telescopes | | Dr. Rick Fienberg
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| IYA 2009 Info Packets | Publish observing guides, education materials, resources | | Dr. Rick Fienberg
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| TV/Planetarium Shows | There are at least 2 IYA2009 TV programs under development. A coalition of planetariums has joined to develop planetarium shows and incorporate materials from the TV program. | | Dr. Rick Fienberg
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| GLOBE at Night | To draw attention to the light pollution without having to get into politically charged issues of safety and security. | | Doug Isbell
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| Jupiter Opposition | Jupiter and its Galilean satellites come to opposition, Neptune and Jupiter will be visually close to each other | 14-15 Aug. 2009 | Dr. Rick Fienberg
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| Astronomy X Prize | Prize to a researcher? Amateur? Teacher? | | Dr. Rick Fienberg
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| Track Galileo's Observations | On January 10 1610 Galileo pointed his telescope at the sky and made interesting discoveries. | 10 Jan, 2010 | | |
| Voyage Scale Model Solar System | Installation of solar system models. | | Jeff Goldstein
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| International Astronomy Day | A day when people can observe bright astronomical objects in the sky | Late Sep/ Oct 2009?
| Dr. Rick Fienberg? | |
| IAU - children delegates | Send children to the GA or to the National Meetings | | | |
| Time Capsule | Make a time capsule to be opened in 400 years | | Helen Sim
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| Re-enact the history of the universe | Use people to re-enact the history of the universe | | Helen Sim
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| The Immersive Classroom | To inspire youngsters by bringing hemispheric views of the universe and the Earth (etc. etc.) into the classrooms. Equipment: a PC, a hemispheric projector, Uniview s/w, Digital Universe database, hemispheric unfoldable screen. For use in Geography, physics, biology, chemistry etc. Traveling exhibit? A unit in every classroom? | | Lars Lindberg Christensen
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Staffan Klashed
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David McConville
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| Universe Awareness | UNAWE is an international initative for economically disadvantaged young children aged four to ten. UNAWE will expose children in developing countries and in underprivileged communities in Europe to the inspirational aspects of astronomy. | | Dr. Carolina Ödman
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| How Many Stars | Observation reports for the determination of present night sky visibility conditions | | Dr. Thomas Posch
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| Kepler Activities | Activities related to Kepler and his discoveries, as 2009 marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of "Astronomia Nova". | | Dr. Terence Mahoney
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Dr. David Koch
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Cereal Box Spectroscopes
| To teach spectroscopy by the use of cheap spectroscopes made of cereal boxes and a CD
| | Mark Tiele Westra
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Does Venus go around the Sun?
| By using small telescopes, always under the same magnification of around 60X, follow the phases and apparent sizes of Venus from January to July, 2009. Each time, estimate the angular separation between Venus and the Sun. Then make a sketch showing the positions of Venus with respect to the Sun and the Earth every two weeks. Compare your results with Galileo's. Was Copernicus right? | From Jan to Jul 2009
| Francisco Diego
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| Calculate the speed of light by observing the moons of Jupiter | To reproduce the observations by Olaus Roemer who, using a small telescope, could calculate the speed of light by timing the motions of the moons of Jupiter discovered by Galileo nearly 70 years earlier. | From mid Mar 2009 to mid Jan 2010 | Francisco Diego
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| Origin and Evolution of Life in the Universe: a link between IYA2009 and Darwin2009 | IYA2009 and Darwin2009 will celebrate two of the greatest achievements of humankind to unravel the secrets of Nature. Following this, it is suggested to organise events joining astronomy and biology together with topics like extra solar planets and the origin and evolution of life in the Universe. There are also interesting links to philosophy and religion that could result in engaging activities such as: exhibitions, lectures, debates, cafe-scientifiques, articles, TV programmes, etc. | 2009 | Francisco Diego
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| Astronomy as a Cultural Heritage | Presentations and traveling exhibition | 2009 | Prof. Dr. Sonja Draxler
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