Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008aas...212.3203l&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #212, #32.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 40, p.230
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
While there have been many astronomy outreach activities and telescope observations at city sidewalks and parks, this IYA-2009 program targets a completely different audience - music lovers who are attending free summer music concerts held in community parks. The target audience is music lovers who may never have visited a science museum, planetarium, or star party. This program will permit the entire community (adults, teenagers, children, and seniors) to participate in telescope observations to enhance the public appreciation of astronomy. This program will also reach under-represented groups (economically disadvantaged, women, and minorities). The population base for the initial target audience (Nassau and Suffolk Counties, New York) is 2,700, 000 which is larger than combined population of Boston, Dallas, and San Francisco.
Combining music concerts with astronomy assures an audience of people who have made a commitment to be outside at night for several hours. The attendance at these concerts ranges from 500 to 10,000 people per concert. If successful, this program will result in tens of thousands of people to looking through a telescope. Using an electronic projection system with a large screen will permit simultaneous viewing by audience members waiting to look through the telescope and will also be used to provide supplementary educational material. Visible constellations will also be identified along with their astronomical legends. My partner is the Amateur Observers' Society of New York. They have run a summer telescope in the park program for the past 20 years and are a participant in NASA's Night Sky network. I previously brought a telescope to a summer concert in Oyster Bay, NY and 90% of the 700 people attending the concert came to look at the Jupiter and its moons. Because concerts are held in parks throughout the US, I welcome new partners for this exciting IYA-2009 activity.
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