Galilean Nights - October 2009

By naveenln; Published 02 Sep 2009

Please register for outreach program to be conducted at your apartment, college, school, company or area in and around Bangalore. send email with details to info@bas.org.in

Event Co-ordinator : Naveen Nanjundappa

Message from IYA2009 Team regarding the outreach program.

Following the unprecedented success of IYA2009's 100 Hours of Astronomy, another series of events is being planned for 22-24 October 2009. This new IYA2009 Cornerstone Project is called Galilean Nights and will see amateur and professional astronomers around the globe taking to the streets and pointing their telescopes to the wonders that Galileo observed 400 years ago.

The focus of the project is sidewalk observations of the gas giant Jupiter and its moons, as well as allowing members of the public to observe the Sun, our own Moon and many more celestial marvels.