مشكور د.فراس و هي النشاطات مكتوبة باللغة الانكليزية:100 Hours of Astronomy Events2-5 April 2009The 100 Hours of Astronomy IYA2009 Cornerstone Project is a four-day event designed to bring astronomy to the public around the world. Whether it’s a few hours on one day or a 100-hour marathon event, how groups choose to participate is up to them. Plans should fit the resources and enthusiasm that’s available. All activities and events during 100HA will bring astronomy to a new audience.
While groups worldwide will be planning their own events, 100 Hours of Astronomy has its own global events that organizations worldwide will take part in.
100 Hours of Astronomy Global Events:
- Opening Event: A VIP event at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia will feature one of Galileo's telescopes. The Director of the Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence, which holds the two remaining Galileo telescopes, will speak on the importance of Galileo's telescopes and the discoveries he made with them.
- Live Science Centres Webcast: Select science centres will participate in a live webcast featuring discussions on current topics in astronomy on 2 April. Live observations will be made by visitors to select science centres using telescopes operated remotely over the Internet. Science centres worldwide will feature enhanced outreach programmes, many with the participation of amateur astronomy groups holding public observing sessions.
- Live 24-hour Research Observatory Webcast: Astronomers at professional research observatories around the world will take viewers inside their telescope domes and control rooms during a live 24-hour webcast on 3 April.
- 24-hour Global Star Party: For 24 hours on 4 April, telescopes (including solar telescopes) will be made available for public viewing by astronomy clubs and observing groups free of charge. The goal is to allow as many people as possible to have a chance to look through a telescope.
- Sun Day: 5 April, sunrise local time and organised by the Solar Physics Task Group. We all owe our existence to our closest stellar neighbour, the Sun. Without it, all life on earth would perish. The last day of 100 Hours of Astronomy (Sunday) has been set aside to highlight and celebrate the Sun.
- 100HA Junior: This is a collaboration between 100 Hours of Astronomy and Universe Awareness (also an IYA global cornerstone project) to connect amateur and professional astronomers with young children around the world during (and perhaps after) 100 Hours of Astronomy.
Thousands of Local Events are being planned by science facilities and astronomy enthusiasts around the world, including telescope observing sessions, lectures, exhibitions, special shows and more.