The Role Of Indigenous Staff To Provide Sustainability Of An Amateur Observatory

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May 2011

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #218, #215.09; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011

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At the 215th AAS Meeting we presented a paper titled "How Does Astronomy Constitute A Learning Community?". The study showed that astronomy activities, which were conducted in an interdisciplinary project called "From a windowless home to a skyscraper: Let's build a home", constituted a learning community. An amateur observatory was built in IYA2009 and one of the future goals of the project is to connect this amateur observatory with both amateur and professional astronomy communities as a research center. To achieve this goal, an indigenous teacher took the responsibility of providing continuity of astronomy activities voluntarily. Furthermore, he was submitted a 5-inch refractor telescope and a special training program was arranged for him. The training included the introduction of the sky at night and fundamentals of night-sky observations, the use of sky map and Stellarium, setting up and using the telescope. The visiting staff's commitment to the project, the enthusiasm of students and the local community to participate in night-sky observations, our goal to extend the use of the observatory by all students in the town were effective on his decision to be a part of this project as the leader of the indigenous staff. This goal was also supported by education authorities of the town. The visiting staff is in contact with him and follows his development closely. He sets up the telescope on his own and observes the sky keeping a logbook. He implemented an outreach activity once and is planning new ones. With the foundation of the astronomy club at the project school and after the panel discussion particularly organized to negotiate on the aims and future of the project, new members joined to work as the indigenous staff. As a result "staff involvement and integration” existed as an element of community-based sustainability in this project.

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