This second installment of the 2009 Star Party will also host visiting professional astronomers and astronomy students taking part in the International School for Young Astronomers 2009 (ISYA) being held at the University of the West Indies.
The following information (given for Port-of-Spain, Trinidad) will be useful to members of the Muslim community who wish to look for the new moon crescent that marks the end of the month of Ramadaan. Information is given below for the position of the moon in degrees– a useful guideline is that a closed fist at arm’s length spans approximately 10 degrees against the sky. Information is also given for the ‘best time’ to view the moon. This is because at sunset there is still too much light in the sky to view a thin crescent, and some time is needed for the sky to darken a little.
I know it's a bit late but we just added a bunch of new photos from some of CARINA'a activities this year, in celebration of IYA 2009. Please check the Photo Gallery and be sure to stayed tuned for more updates to come.
“To command the professors of astronomy to confute their own observations is to enjoin an impossibility, for it is to command them to not see what they do see, and not to understand what they do understand, and to find what they do not discover.”
