I have good news with me for you guys, Star Party 2009; “Rendezvous of Celestial Surveillance” concluded successfully during the morning of 26th Sept 2009. Apparently this is the 1st post I am gonna make after my visit to Kandy for Star Party. Now I unfold the story from the evening of 24th Sept 2009, [...]

The time has now reached for the biggest IYA2009 event of Sri Lanka..Star Party 2009. The event is just 24+ hours ahead. Every thing seems to be fine and on the track, even the weather in Kandy, where SP 09 is going to be held. Now I’m at Colombo and will be leaving for Kandy [...]

The time is fast reaching the 25th Sept 2009, when the largest IYA 2009 project of Sri Lanka is scheduled to be held. I have also mentioned the news in my last 2 posts. This is to update you guys about the new website that is launched with Star PArty 2009 at http://www.starparty2009.com/ In addition [...]

Every participating team should contain a maximum of 5 participants and only two teams can represent a school. All participants should be currently attending school whereas the students who had already written for the A/L exam are not eligible to take part under any circumstance whatsoever. All the participants should be in school uniforms for [...]

Star Party 2009… A grand celebration, phenomenal sidereal endeavor, 12-hour premium experience of all time…. Since the early footprints of civilization, astronomy proved to be the blueprint of all the sciences. The prime etiquette of stargazing was the passion that our ancestry shared. Driven by the curiosity and evolving mind, our forefathers were path-finding through [...]

Citing http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_moon_landings_have_there_been There have been 6 landings – and 12 people – on the moon; all were US Apollo missions. The First Moon Landing (July 20, 1969) American astronaut Neil Armstrong (commander of the Apollo 11 mission), accompanied by Buzz Aldrin, landed the lunar module Eagle on the surface of the moon at 4:17:42 p.m. [...]

In this IYA 2009 I’m bringing you guys an awesome news, a news about luminosity, brightness, colors,,,lol, It’s none other than the SKYWAY 09. The privileged host is Poland and to be precise the city will be Toruń. Toruń will house SKYWAY 09 joining hands with scientists and artists from around the globe. In fact [...]

The most important year of all time- The International Year of Astronomy 2009 has already finished 7 months of it’s single orbit. During the course of this 7 months a lot of things have taken place. There have been important endeavors being organized by both local & international bodies. On might say that the climax [...]

The longest solar eclipse of the century or by technical terms, the 37th of 71 of Saros Series 136 took place on the 22nd of July 2009. (I don’t post much details of this eclipse as they are already available from wikipedia and NASA eclipse site.) We, with our great equatorial location were able to [...]

« La filosofia è scritta in questo grandissimo libro che continuamente ci sta aperto innanzi a gli occhi (io dico l’universo), ma non si può intendere se prima non s’impara a intender la lingua, e conoscer i caratteri, ne’ quali è scritto. Egli è scritto in lingua matematica, e i caratteri son triangoli, cerchi, ed [...]