Report from Italy

UAI – Unione Astrofili Italiani
(Italian Astro Amateur Union)
Venus Transit in Italy
Contribution to VT2004 Amateur Meeting
Brandys nad Labem
may, 7-9 2004
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UAI – Unione Astrofili Italiani
(Italian Astro Amateur Union)
UAI members are about 2000
Over 200 local associations and
100 observatories are in activity in Italy
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UAI on-line
www.uai.it
UAI website in made up of several
different sections, representative of
amateur astronomers’ fields of activity
COMMISSIONS
•Didactic activities
•Popularization of Astronomy
•Public Relations-Press releases
•Light Pollution
•Observatories Network
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RESEARCH GROUPS
•Asteroids
•Astroculture (History, Arts)
•Deep Sky
•Comets
•Moon
•Meteors
•Occultations
•Planets
•Sundials
•Sun
•Variable Stars
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All UAI members receive:
Astronomical
Almanac
“Astronomia”
UAI – Magazine
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VENUS TRANSIT
"Venus eclipses the Sun"
Public Observations in Italy
UAI will organize public activities related to
the observation of Venus transit through a
network of observation sites all over Italy.
Every year UAI is the promoter of several
national events as reported on web pages:
http://divulgazione.uai.it/
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The event will be named :
"Venere eclissa il Sole"
("Venus eclipses the Sun")
UAI will cooperate as well in activities concerning information
through web pages and press releases.
“Il Cielo in diretta" ("Sky-live") is aimed to permit the observation
of the transit on the web, through webcams connected to
telescopes.
A special webpage dedicated to the event will be early on line:
http://www.venere2004.it
Some more informations are avaiable here :
http://divulgazione.uai.it/venus/venus2004.htm
this webpage is mainly dedicated to the collaboration with ESO
and UAI partnership to “Venus Transit 2004” project.
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A special information service
is “Astroiniziative”
Please, visit our webpage:
http://divulgazione.uai.it/
and clic on : “Astroiniziative”
You will find a map of Italy.
Clic a Region with your
mouse. It will be possible to
read the list of public
observation in the choosen
Region!
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UAI will cooperate as well with the italian
node of Venus Transit 2004 project:
INAF
(Istituto Nazionale di AstroFisica –
National Institute of AstroPhysics).
INAF website dedicated to Venus Transit is:
www.transitodivenere.it
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• Conclusions:
UAI wishes everybody the clearest sky on june, 8
And let’s hope the VT2004 meeting will be the first of many
more collaborations among european amateur astronomers.
A few years ago UAI started a collaboration with french
organization “AFA” (Association Francaise d’Astronomie”.
So the original “Nuits des Etoiles” (public observations of
Perseid meteor shower) became an international event: in
Italy, “Le Notti delle Stelle”.
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In 2003 edition UAI
proposed the
following logo, aiming
to an “European Night
of the Stars”.
Let’s hope all the
participants to VT2004
meeting will join next
“Night of the Stars” !
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