Let's observe the sky from home; online observation, a new way to enjoy and learn astronomy

Poster
Low-Tech Astronomy Education
3rd Shaw-IAU Workshop
Tuesday Oct. 12, 2021
UTC: 2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
, Friday Oct. 15, 2021
UTC: 6 a.m. - 7:30 a.m.

Mehr Observatory with cooperation of Iranian Teachers Astronomy Union (ITAU) and Network for Astronomy School Educations (NASE) has been doing some online observation recently for students, teachers and astronomers around the world. This is a useful activity for online courses and for those sky events which can be visible with a telescope. Imagine there is a conjunction between Jupiter and Saturn and the best time to observe it is not visible for your region. So you can observe it online from the other telescope in a visible region. That is what Mehr observatory has been doing since last year. It is completely possible to observe moon, sun and planets from our observatory. So, let's do more.

Biography:

Parham Eisvandi is an astronomy instructor and sky photographer. He has been working in Mehr observatory since 2015 and he is one of Iranian instructor of NASE. He is working on special online observations for 2 years.