The Citizen Night-Sky From Valparaíso
TalkNaked-eye astronomy
3rd Shaw-IAU Workshop
Wednesday Oct. 13, 2021
UTC: 9:35 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. America/New_York: 5:35 a.m.- 5:45 a.m.
Thursday Oct. 14, 2021
UTC: 7:05 p.m. - 7:15 p.m. America/New_York: 3:05 p.m.- 3:15 p.m.
Sebastián Ramírez Alegría (CITEVA, Universidad de Antofagasta)
During the summer of 2016, in a small bar in Valparaíso (Chile), there was talk series dedicated to the night-sky observation. The activities were open to anyone interested and focused on recognizing several objects in the sky using only our eyes. The participants started recognizing their knowledge, realize the challenges (both temporal and spatial) associated with observing the sky in the city, and finished observing different celestial objects in the summer night. In this talk, I will present this brief project, its activities, problems, and main learnings -for participants, myself, and future projects.
About Sebastián Ramírez Alegría
Sebastián Ramírez Alegría is part of the Centro de Astronomía (CITEVA) at Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile. Previously he worked as Postdoctoral researcher in Universidad de Valparaíso and Universidad Cat?lica del Norte (both, in Chile). His research is mainly dedicated to the near-infrared observation and characterization of young and high-mass stellar population in open clusters, following the topic of his Ph.D. thesis in the Instituto Astrofísico de Canarias (Spain).
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