{"id":278,"date":"2015-03-10T15:21:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T13:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.above-horizon.de\/blog\/?p=278"},"modified":"2019-05-29T11:02:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T09:02:55","slug":"international-sidewalk-astronomy-night-8-isan8-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.above-horizon.de\/blog\/en\/2015\/03\/international-sidewalk-astronomy-night-8-isan8-2\/","title":{"rendered":"International Sidewalk Astronomy Night 8 &#8211; ISAN8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The next, eighth, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/astronomynight\">International Sidewalk Astronomy Night, ISAN8<\/a>\u00a0will be on the 28. of March 2015 as announced by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sidewalkastronomers.us\">Sidewalk Astronomers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The last ISAN7 was fully in the honour of the just deceased John Dobson and was a great success e.g. in <a title=\"\u201cSidewalk Astronomy\u201d im Gedenken an John Dobson\" href=\"https:\/\/www.above-horizon.de\/blog\/de\/2014\/03\/sidewalk-astronomy-im-gedenken-an-john-dobson\/\">Aachen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bonnstern.wordpress.com\/2014\/01\/31\/08-marz-offentliche-beobachtung-an-der-poppelsdorfer-allee\/\">Bonn<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astronomie-ingolstadt.de\/sidewalk-astronomie\/\">Ingolstadt<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scilogs.de\/uhura-uraniae\/sidewalk-astronomy-berlin\/\">Berlin<\/a>. Which was also due to the great weather in most places.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fotowald.de\/thumbnails-119.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fotowald.de\/albums\/sidewalkastronomy2014\/SidewalkAstronomy2014Aachen_03_DSCN3052.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sidewalk Astronomy at Aachener Elisengarten 2014<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, the date for 2015 is only one week after the Solar eclipse on 20.03. and the <a title=\"Sonnenfinsternis am 20.03. und Tag der Astronomie am 21.03.2015\" href=\"https:\/\/www.above-horizon.de\/blog\/de\/2015\/03\/sonnenfinsternis-am-20-03-und-tag-der-astronomie-am-21-03-2015-2\/\">Astronomy Day on the 21.03.<\/a>\u00a0and is hence somewhat challenging for the contributing astronomers. As most visitors of the astronomy day are already interested in astronomy to at least some extend, these differ from the majority of people who are targeted by the sidewalk astronomy actions. The latter mostly\u00a0people who are not yet active in astronomy. Especially for those persons whose interest in astronomy is activated by the ISAN, the opposite arrangement of dates would be preferable. In that case, the ISAN would be some sort of advertising for the much more coordinated events of the astronomy day in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and some bordering countries and, at least this year, for the solar eclipse on the 20.03.. This, however, is not possible for 2015 any more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although it is not ideal to split an international activity on different dates for different parts of the world, it might be good to consider having a different date for Europe and the Americas. In my opinion, a separate, later date for Europe would be preferable. Probably on a Saturday before the <a href=\"http:\/\/eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov\/LEplot\/LEplot2001\/LE2015Sep28T.pdf\">Lunar eclipse on the 28. September 2015<\/a>? I would love to read more comments on that topic in the comment section!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next, eighth, International Sidewalk Astronomy Night, ISAN8\u00a0will be on the 28. of March 2015 as announced by the\u00a0Sidewalk Astronomers. The last ISAN7 was fully in the honour of the just deceased John Dobson and was a great success e.g. in Aachen, Bonn, Ingolstadt\u00a0or\u00a0Berlin. Which was also due to the great weather in most places. 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