Astrocultural tourism in Romania -another way of doing astronomy education

Poster
Naked-eye astronomy
3rd Shaw-IAU Workshop
Wednesday Oct. 13, 2021
UTC: 9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. America/New_York: 5 a.m.- 6:30 a.m.
, Thursday Oct. 14, 2021
UTC: 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. America/New_York: 2:30 p.m.- 4 p.m.

Victor Anestin– considered to be the father of Romanian amateur astronomy: “Numbers and long equations are not the bait with which the admirers of heaven can be caught”. In the last few years, we have witnessed a series of private inquiries unveiling a special kind of astronomical heritage in Romania. We group the main objects of interest for the Romanian astrocultural tourist into the following list: 1) Astronomical ornaments to be found on old village houses. 2) Astronomical timekeeping devices. sundials, 3) Cosmological representations inside churches. The list may go on… but what is most important is the fact that astrocutural tourism can be
a good starting point for astronomical education in the case of youngsters, adults and the elderly alike.

Biography:

Advisor in Control Department, Ministry of Education, with attributions for coordinating mathematical discipline at national level (2018-2019, 2019-2020), member of the Romanian National Astronomy Committee, mathematics teacher and member of the national coordination team for the Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympics, the resource person for the partnership between the Ministry of Education and the Romanian Space Agency

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