April is Global Astronomy Month (GAM)!
Come and join us to celebrate at the Ghana Planetarium every Saturday in April!
Saturday April 7th – Global Astronomy Month kick-off! Learn about the night sky with telescope viewing!
Saturday April 14th – "Yuri's Night", a celebration of space travel and rockets!
Saturday April 21st – Saturn Watch – Learn and Look at the "Lord of the Rings"!
Saturday April 28th - Global Star Party – if you have a pair of binoculars or telescope, bring it along and join with us to view and celebrate Stars, Planets and Moons!
We would love to welcome as many people as possible to the events at the Planetarium this month, but if you can't get to us, why not organize your own event? Or just get together with friends and family to enjoy the night sky. The links below may give you some ideas...
For more information on GAM, see:
http://www.astronomerswithoutborders.org/global-astronomy-month-2012.html (http://www.astronomerswithoutborders.org/global-astronomy-month-2012.html)
If you can't make it to any of the Planetarium events but have an Internet connection at home, then you can participate in remote observing online. For more details, see:
http://www.astronomerswithoutborders.org/gam2012/all-programs/945-remote-observing.html (http://www.astronomerswithoutborders.org/gam2012/all-programs/945-remote-observing.html)
or
http://virtualtelescope.bellatrixobservatory.org/gam2012vt.html (http://virtualtelescope.bellatrixobservatory.org/gam2012vt.html)
Children and adults, if you are inspired by what you see in the night sky, why not write a poem about it and enter the global astropoetry competition:
http://www.astronomerswithoutborders.org/gam2012/all-programs/944-gam2012-astropoetry-contest.html (http://www.astronomerswithoutborders.org/gam2012/all-programs/944-gam2012-astropoetry-contest.html)
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