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| Sunday, 12-Apr-2009 08:20 |
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Eco Friendly @ Planetarium Negara
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Today, 12 April 2009, The youth association on wilayah persekutuan organized a huge event in the National Planetarium with the theme of Eco-friendly, creating awareness among younger generations about green resources and pollution happening around us. This event was also held in conjunction with the International Year of Astronomy 2009, IYA2009 launching that will take place the next day, 13 April 2009.
An estimated number of about 2,000 (might have been more) showed up to participate in the activities that was planned throughout the entire day. Among them were treasure hunts, chorus speaking competition and many more. Below are some pictures of the program that took place at the National Planetarium that day.
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| Saturday, 11-Apr-2009 08:42 |
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Yuri's Night Planetarium Negara
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Yuri's Night in Malaysia was celebrated in the National Planetarium, Kuala Lumpur on 11 April 2009. This celebration was held to commemorate the first human spaceflight by Yuri Gagarin that took place on the same day 48 years ago.
The day was filled with performances like plays, chorus speaking, traditional instrumental orchestra, traditional dances from Malaysia and also from Russia! It was a very exciting event with participation from many schools around Kuala Lumpur including Kuala Kubu Baru.
The event was held inside the Space Theater (Dome), started around 8pm and finished around 10pm that night. Here are some of the pictures of the program that night.
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| Monday, 6-Apr-2009 02:01 |
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100 Hours Astronomy Malaysia UiTM Perlis
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The 100 Hours of Astronomy in Malaysia was susccessfully carried out on 3-5 April 2009 by the Agency with the collaboration from UiTM Arau, Perlis and amateur astronomers from all around the country notably from FalakOnline; a club dedicated to local amateur astronomers.
Around 2,000 people showed up on the first day of observation session 3 April regardless of the cloudy skies. In total, we managed to attract around 3,000 to 3,500 people, mostly students of the campus, to be apart of this international cornerstone project of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009).
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| Wednesday, 18-Mar-2009 00:43 |
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Talk Mejar Dr Faiz Khaleed
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A very privileged group of students got the chance to meet with Malaysian Astronaut today and not only that, they even met the infamous Col Dr Zul behind the scene that facilitated both angkasawan.
Mejar Dr Faiz Khaleed took an hour to give out a short educational speech aided by Col Dr Zul.
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| Sunday, 15-Mar-2009 00:39 |
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Kem Alami
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On the 13 and 14 of March 2009, the National Planetarium re-hosted an event that was dormant for the past few years. It was a 2 day camp for primary schools geared for educating these youngsters on space science facts.
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| Thursday, 5-Mar-2009 07:26 |
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E-Week Beyond the Sky - MMU Cyberjaya
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Between 19 and 22 February 2009, the National Planetarium assisted the Multimedia University in Cyberjaya in organizing a week dedicated to astronomy and space science. Many exhibitors participated besides the National Planetarium such as Motorola, Stargazer and also the well-known astronomical team from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) lead by Dr Chong.
An estimated 800-1000 students from the campus itself and nearby schools took this chance to learn about astronomy and water bottle rockets from this exhibition. Below are some shots taken during the event.
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| Tuesday, 10-Feb-2009 03:19 |
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Penumbral Lunar Eclipse Feb 2009
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Last night, a lunar eclipse took place above the night sky of National Planetarium. We took this opportunity to gather the astronomy enthusiasts around the compound and spent the entire evening observing the different phases of the lunar eclipse.
Around 100+ people gathered with the Planetarium team and included some teams from prominent enthusiast groups such as FalakOnline and ProStar teams. A live web telecast also took place during the duration of this event to give viewers at home opportunity to see what can be seen by us at the National Planetarium.
All in all, it was a medium sized gathering and was participated by most of the enthusiasts from nearby places.
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| Tuesday, 3-Feb-2009 06:01 |
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NITROS - UIA GOMBAK
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The past weekend, on the 31st January and 1st February, the National Islamic Astronomy Sysposium (NITORS) was held in the International Islamic University of Malaysia in Gombak, Selangor. The National Planetarium was invited to this event as one of the exhibitors and also facilitate the night observation/stargazing session. We took this opportunity to display our photos of the latest partial eclipse that we manage to observe from Teluk Kemang and also the program that took place a few days before.
In this event also, we debut out touchscreen/kiosk for the first time to the vast public. We ran a continuous display of photos that we took during the eclipse, the stellarium software and also distributed a huge number of mobile phone starchart using the kiosk.
Many students took the chance to play with the touchscreen kiosk and navigate the night sky inside stellarium. However, most of them used the software to view the constellations that were in the sky the night they were born. The mobile phone starchart, sideralis, was the biggest hit of this event where it managed to gather a huge crowd throughout the days of the exhibition.
In this program also we had publics asking of the technologies of the computer(kiosk) that we used since it amazed many of them. Some also took the opportunity to ask us about the photography aspect of astronomy and these diversity gave us chance to approach the students there from a different approach. We hope to get funding to keep the outreach program at the forefront with the latest technologies to get the public interested in exploring astronomy and space science.
Fotopages is upgrading their system at the moment. Pictures will be coming up in the near future.
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| Tuesday, 27-Jan-2009 08:08 |
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Partial Eclipse @ Planetarium Negara
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A partial eclipse took place on 26 January 2009 in Malaysia and the National Planetarium organized a public observation of the rare event that took place that day. An estimated 2,000 people gathered around after numerous announcements made over the media for the past few weeks.
The album for this event is posted in this entry. It was a marvelous occasion until heavy clouds came in around the time right after the maximum point of the eclipse. Overall it was successful in getting the public aware of this phenomenon and another eclipse, lunar in february, hoping to get a response similar to this one.
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| Tuesday, 27-Jan-2009 04:34 |
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Partial Eclipse at Teluk Kemang, Port Dickson
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A team from the National Space Agency of Malaysia was sent out to organize a program to cover the Partial Eclipse that took place on the 26 January 2009. It was also joined by the Jabatan Mufti Negeri Sembilan to help facilitate the program as well. The objective of this program was to reach out to the public and share this rare phenomenon that was mostly unaware that it was going to happen
Here are some of the photos of the event and it will be updated again in the future after some processing has been done.
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