WGSN explained by Eric Mamajek
For the scientific meeting in November 2023, the founder of the Working Group summarized the ideas, goals and developments.
For the scientific meeting in November 2023, the founder of the Working Group summarized the ideas, goals and developments.
South American Ethnoastronomy What are the methods, results, data that are collected?
The Working Group Star Names (WGSN) and the Stellarium team met in Jena from 1 to 3 November 2023 to think about ways of managing cultural data together. Astronomy is a science that works across faculties: Astrophysics has admittedly been one of the pioneering sciences for large databases and other repositories since the 1970s and…
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Talk by Dr. B. S. Shylaja
2022 Arthur and Hilda Winch Annual Lecture given by Duane Hamacher, PhD
Public Talk by Professor Duane Hamacher
On July 15, 2020, in a session of the Virtual Astronomy Club, Ian Ridpath spoke about the history of the constellations. A fascinating tale of how the figures, stories and names have been handed down through different societies to the familiar 88 that are officially recognised today.
Dr. Danielle Adams
The Indian astronomer Ketkar had predicted Pluto (and another planet) much more precise than the American and European people who ran the survey programs. However, the discovery in America in 1930 was completely independent from this because his work was unknown in America.
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