Shaw-IAU Workshops by the OAE

Opening domes and offering the sky through telescopes has always been one of the moments of greatest encounter between researchers, students, educators, family members and for everyone who wants to know a little bit about the universe. Because of the pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2, we teamed up with amateur astronomers from various locations in Brazil, which is vast in latitude and longitude, to show the sky through their telescopes. Since June 2020 until now they have formed 19 remote observation lives of the sky, where we show the moon, planets, star clusters, nebulae, galaxies and comets.Both amateur and professional astronomers are involved in the project and some of them are teachers as well.Lives last about four hours and have hundreds to thousands of people watching and interacting

Biography:

Josina Nascimento has a bachelor’s degree in physics from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, a master’s and a PhD in the field of Systems and Computing engineering from COPPE - UFRJ. She coordinates the astronomy communication and popularization projects: "O céu em sua casa:observação remota" (The sky at your home: remote observation), "AstroEducadores" (AstroEducators, an online teaching course for educators) and "Olhai pro Céu RJ" (Look up to the Sky RJ), and is a part of the Organizing Committee of the Brazilian Astronomy and Astronautics Olympiad (OBA). She managed the online selection phase of Brazilian teams for the international astronomy Olympiads (2013 - 2019). She manages the division of Communication and Popularization of Science (DICOP) of the Brazilian research institution Observatório Nacional, where she has served for over 40 years, and is a member of the of the IAU National Outreach Coordinator (NOC Brasil) Committee, tied to the IAU Office for Astronomy Outreach.

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