Dear Fellow Communicators,
The month of April brings many exciting events! We have opened registration for the Teacher Training session on Kepler’s Laws and Modern Astronomy, organised by the ESO Supernova Planetarium & Visitor Centre, in collaboration with the Haus der Astronomie, Heidelberg. If you are a German-speaking teacher from our ESO Member States, we invite you to apply! You can read more about the teacher training session here.
During these next two weeks, two of our Photo Ambassadors, Babak Tafreshi and Petr Horálek, together with our Video Coordinator, Herbert Zodet, planetarium video producer, Theofanis N. Matsopoulos, and astrophotographer, Yuri Beletsky, are participating in the #ESOFulldome expedition to our sites in Chile. Their goal is to acquire footage to be used for the upcoming ESO Supernova Planetarium shows.
At the end of this month there will be first light for a new laser unit on ESO’s Very Large Telescope. We are preparing a media telecon for the event. You can read more here.
At the beginning of May the transit of Mercury will take place. Our colleagues at ESA are going to make a live webcast of the phenomenon from the Paranal Observatory in Chile. At the same time, the eight winners of #MeetESO will be visiting Paranal and ALMA. More about this campaign here.
CAPjournal issue 19 is out, with a special edition dedicated to the communication and outreach campaign for Rosetta. This is really one of the most interesting issues of CAPjournal so far and can be downloaded for free. Don’t forget that if you are a print subscriber, you will need to confirm your subscription by following the instructions that you can find in the announcement, as well as inside the journal (keep the envelope in which you receive CAPjournal).
Finally, don’t forget to submit your astrophotographs to the Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition before 14 April 2016, and to the Photo Nightscape Awards. If you are a teacher you can also encourage your students to take part in Catch a Star!.
Let’s reach new heights in astronomy together!
Lars Lindberg Christensen (lars@eso.org)
Head, ESO education and Public Outreach Department (ePOD)
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5 April 2016: ESO Photo Ambassador Petr Horálek is in Chile at the moment, as a member of ESO’s Fulldome Expedition, amassing photographic images to use in 360-degree planetarium shows. The material ...
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1 April 2016: The ESO Supernova Planetarium & Visitor Centre, in collaboration with the Haus der Astronomie, Heidelberg, is organising a one day workshop on Kepler’s Laws for secondary school teachers, on ...
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31 March 2016: The latest edition of ESO's quarterly journal, The Messenger, is now available online. Find out the latest news from ESO on topics ranging from new instruments to the latest ...
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29 March 2016: A survey of peer-reviewed scientific papers published in 2015 and using data from ESO’s telescopes and instruments has shown that ESO remains the world’s most productive ground-based observatory ...
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24 March 2016: The 19th issue of the Communicating Astronomy with the Public journal is out now!
This special issue includes an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the outreach activities surrounding ESA’s dramatic ...
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21 March 2016: On 26 April 2016 an event will be held at the Paranal Observatory in Chile to mark the first light of a new laser unit on ESO’s Very Large ...
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16 March 2016: On 15 February ESO announced its first social media gathering, launching a call to keen social media users from ESON countries interested in visiting its observatory sites in Chile. In ...
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15 March 2016: The winners of the 2015 art&science@ESO Residency Award are Quadrature, a group of artists from Berlin, Germany. The group consists of Jan Bernstein, Sebastian Neitsch and Juliane Götz. Together ...
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10 March 2016: The latest issue of the free magazine Science in School is now available online and in printed form. This European journal for science teachers offers inspiring articles, fun games and ...
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