This weekend: Indonesia and the Philippines StarPeace event 
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Astronomers accompanied by people from Indonesia and the Philippines in south east of Asia will make a peace bridge on South China sea in December 4 and 5.

Although less than one month has remained to the end of IYA2009, but these days StarPeace colleagues prepare themselves for an amazing StarPece event in south east of Asia.
Dr. Armando Lee, StarPeace ambassador in the Philippines, will manage this event in his country. He has plan to do two days of free public viewing session with simultaneous webcasting via www.justin.tv/medlee for the purpose of coordinating and sharing their event with Indonesia as they do simultaneous StarPeace activity on those nights. Interesting point in the Philippines activity is that they are going to do starpeace in the form of 2 venues in their country.
In other side of South China Sea and Sulu Sea and on similar time, Avivah Yamani, Indonesian StarPeace ambassador in cooperation with her colleagues and friends in Langiteselatan society, will hold similar StarPeace common star party for more than 100 Students, teachers and etc. Also they will prepare webcasting like Armando team.
We put more details about their event in below and it is possible to contact them, if you are interesting to participate or know more about their StarPeace activity at the end of IYA2009.


StarPeace in the Philippines

Astrocamp Observatory SMBY park SM MOA Pasay City & Gen Emilio Aguinaldo National High School Bacoor Cavite

When: Dec 4 and 5, 2009
Live webcast at: www.justin.tv/medlee
www.justin.tv/langitselatan
Webcast time: 7pm to 11pm local time for the Pasay City: 12am to 3am local time for the Cavite event. Only one channel for the two sites, therefore they can only be covered at those times.

Venue No. 1: Astrocamp Observatory grounds at the San Miguel by the Bay Park of SM Mall of Asia, Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
Equipment for free public viewing in front of Astrocamp Observatory: 66SD refractor, SkyScout personal planetarium hooked to a Public Address System, 10inch dobsonian telescope, and two green laser pointers (all these c/o Astrocamp Observatory Services)
Optional equipment use with fee (150pesos) for those entering the Astrocamp Observatory facility: 11inch SCT goto telescope, Personal Solar Telescope (PST) , four meteorite exhibit, 15min session of lecture and telescope viewing session using the 11inch SCT telescope.

Dates and time: December 4 from 4pm to 12 midnight
                       December 5 from 4pm to 12 midnight

Target audience:  general public visiting the SMBY Park in SM Mall of Asia, Pasay City
                       approximately 300 per day for the free public
                                approximately 25 to 50 person paying for observatory fee

Media coverage: live webcasting using the channel www.justin.tv/medlee
                               computer provided by Dr Lee
                               WiFi provided by SM MOA

Cooperating organizations:
               Langitselatan of Indonesia c/o Avivah Yamani
               First Venture Leisure of SMBY Park SM Mall of Asia
               SM Mall of Asia
               Astrocamp Observatory Services

Venue No.2: General Emilio Aguinaldo National High School
Gen Emilio Aguinaldo Highway, Imus, Cavite Province
Philippines
Organization: Astrocamp Educational Tours
Contact person: Bernie Esporlas and Dr. Armando Lee
Email: medlee1us@yahoo.com
Tel: 09177922053 & (632)8542864
local time: December 4 & 5 (6:00pm to 6:00am the following days)
Webcast: www.justin.tv/medlee (from 12:00 midnight to 3:00 am of ff day) Philippine local time
Telescopes: C8, Meade8, Konus 8, 5in Maksutovs (2 units), 90mm refractors (2 units), & ST80s (2 units).
Estimated participants: 700 students for Dec 4 and another 700 for Dec 5.

‘’Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo is our country's first president and a hero as well’’ Dr. Armando Lee said. ‘’It is fitting to celebrate StarPeace in this school whose name bears the name of the icon of nationalism for our country. So, we now have 2 venues for the Philippines (SM Mall of Asia and Gen Aguinaldo NHS Cavite) and one for Indonesia so far.’’

Astronomers accompanied by people from Indonesia and the Philippines in south east of Asia will make a peace bridge on South China sea in December 4 and 5.

StarPeace in Indonesia

Details about this event as Avivah sent us are in below:

Indonesian National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN), Bandung, Indonesia.
Organization: langitselatan
Contact person: Ferry M. Simatupang & Avivah Yamani
Email: avivahy@gmail.com
Tel: +6281573179629
Local time: December 4 and 5 (6pm - 10pm) Indonesia local time.
Webcast: www.justin.tv/langitselatan (during the events)
Twitter: @langitselatan
Telescopes: You Are Galileo Telescope (5), 5 in power seeker, 80 mm refractors (2 units).
Attendees: 100 students, teachers and amateur astronomer.

 


 



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