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