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IYA in France Progress Report and Possible International Cooperation

This progress report highlights the preliminary organization of the International Year of Astronomy (IYA) 2009 in France, including planned activities and potential international cooperation. The report discusses the involvement of various organizations and institutions, such as amateur astronomers, planetariums, museums, and educational institutions. It also outlines the already planned activities, including planetarium presentations, conferences, exhibitions, and national projects. The report further explores the potential for international cooperation, emphasizing the outreach of astronomical activities and proposing coordinated observations and the use of a worldwide network of observatories.

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IYA in France Progress Report and Possible International Cooperation

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  1. IYA in France Progress report and Possible international cooperation A.Chantal Levasseur-Regourd, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie & Aéronomie Françoise Combes, Observatoire de Paris, LERMA Jean-Eudes Arlot, Observatoire de Paris, IMCCE 1. Preliminary organization of the IYA 2009 in France 2. Activities already planned 3. International cooperation

  2. 1. Preliminary organization http://www.astronomy2009.fr/ Année Internationale or Mondiale de l'Astronomie? AIA09 or AMA09? L’Univers, votre découverte !

  3. 1. Preliminary organization CNFA and SF2A (≈ 1000 members) • Small steering committee, with contact persons to catalyze numerous actions and projects for ‘animation’ in astronomy • e.g. • Amateur astronomers (eclipse 99 experience) • • Planetariums • • Museums in relation with Astronomy • e.g. La Villette, Paris; Cité de l’Espace, Toulouse • • Education: elementary, secondary schools… • • Conferences (large and limited public) • • Media: radio, TV… • Contact persons in ≈ 100 institutes and universities in all regions of France including outside Europe (annual science week experience) • Links to all activities planned for the IYA

  4. 2. Activities already planned • Planetarium presentation (ALMA & planetary systems) with ESO • Wide series of conferences for a large public in all regions (at least one key conference per week) • Wide series of exhibitions in all regions • Call for national projects, towards amateur astronomers groups, science clubs, teachers… volunteering to develop such actions for a large public (once funds are available) e.g.• building of interactive terminals in museums or schools • wide access to telescopes (optical/radio, direct/remote) • school astronomy kits • AMA09 poster • Other projects, still to be confirmed

  5. 3. International cooperation • We are looking for ideas and activities that could be shared • (e.g. previously mentioned Planetarium presentation) • We would be eager have some resources available in French language put in common by the possibly concerned SPoCs • We would also like to propose • to emphasize the outreach of some astronomical activities • to propose easy-to-make coordinated observations, • - to make use of our worldwide network of observatories

  6. 3. International cooperation • Emphasize the outreach of astronomical activities, such as • • Time • Calendars and almanacs • Nautical almanacs for navigation • Ephemeris (sunset, …) • Astronomical phenomena (meteors, eclipses, …) • Space weather • Adaptive optics • Interplanetary navigation • …

  7. 3. International cooperation • Propose coordinated observations in 2009, such as • • Observations of the eclipses of the Jovian moons • Use of these eclipses for determining geographic longitudes, • to show the usefulness of astronomical observations • Worldwide observations centralized through Internet, • with a database available to every one and on-line calculations

  8. 3. International cooperation Use of a national, European and worldwide network of observatories with mid-size telescopes, opened to a large public for scientific observations and conferences

  9. Thank you

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