The International School for Young Astronomers #ISYA2024DZ in a reel, by one of the 🔭 students. We had 30 students from Africa, Middle East and East Mediterranean countries. Next stop Ecuador 2025! www.instagram.com/reel/DBjltDc...
#ISYA2024DZ finished last week. This is my personal summary of the 🔭 school, with photos www.itziararetxaga.net/2024/10/isya... The official report will come in a couple of months in the ISYA - IAU web pages, once we collect all feedback reports and it is approved by the OYA Steering Committe.
Mirjana Povic (ESSTI, Ethiopia/IAA, Spain) last lecture at #ISYA2024DZ too! She is training studrnts on the use of Virtual Observatory tools so that they can exploit the rich 🔭 databases available for research. #ISYA
My course on Galaxies is finished at #ISYA2024DZ and is is now time to close Cosmology with David Mota (Univ. Oslo). The students take the role of baryons oscillating in the dark matter potential wells at the time of release of the Cosmic Microwave Radiation 🔭 #ISYA Big laughs as they (de)compress
Today we closed the Interstellar Medium course by Frèdèric Galliano (Saclay, France) at #ISYA2024DZ. These students will have to review in the coming months the excellent material presented! #ISYA 🔭
It is a day of goodbyes at #ISYA2024DZ even if we still have three days to go Sandro Bressan (SISSA, Italy) finished his course on Stellar Evolution and Naceur Bouziani (CRAAG, Algeria) on Solar System, and Astrobiology #ISYA 🔭
It is James Chibueze's (UNISA, South Africa) last lecture on Radioastronomy today at #ISYA2024DZ . Students are set to synthesize an image of CenA acquired with the VLA 🔭. #ISYA
I am saddened to see the large numbers of adults that have never seen the Milky Way. It is such a humbling and breathtaking experience 🔭 Our modern life is keeping us from developing that sense of awe at contemplating the vastness of the Galaxy. #ISYA2024DZ #ISYA
The weekend of #ISYA2024DZ came full of adventures to discover one of the emblematic communities in Sahara. We had a naked eye 🔭 session in the dunes of Sebseb, where many students saw the Milky Way for the first time in their lives! #ISYA
3rd week of the #ISYA2024DZ with courses that start... Cosmology with David Mota (Univ. Oslo, Norway) in action now 🔭 #ISYA
Helena Domínguez (IFCA, Spain) is also closing today her Machine Learning course at #ISYA2024DZ with some current aplications in 🔭 #Astronomy. #ISYA
Tiago Pereira's (Univ. Oslo, Norway) last session on Solar Physics at #ISYA2024DZ starts with practice on Sun spot classification 🔭 All students running the python notebooks for this task. #ISYA
Next is the first lecture on Interstellar Medium by Frèdèric Galliano (Univ. Paris-Saclay, France), introducing the different phases, abundance and associated masses in the Milky Way 🔭 #ISYA2024DZ #ISYA
We are starting the day with the Solar Physics 🔭 lectures of Tiago Pereira (Univ. Oslo) at #ISYA2024DZ #ISYA , showing the radiation and convection zones of the Sun and its relationship with the main nuclear reaction chain.
Last lecture of the day in #ISYA2024DZ by Nassim Seghouani (CRAAG, Algeria) on Signal Processing. He starts with deconvolution problems, like those faced by HST before refurbishment mission, during the 1st year of operation #ISYA
James Chibueze (UNISA/NWU, South Africa) making sure we do not get lost on the maths as we are synthesizing maps with interferometry data. Jupiter notebooks to the rescue to build🔭 VLA maps at #ISYA2024DZ #ISYA. Students in full attention as they are passing from visibility to image planes.
Now Mirjana Povic (ESSTI, Ethiopia/IAA, Spain) on Virtual Observatory, emphazising the vast amounts of data available. Open access data enables researchers from the developing world to do ground breaking observational work even if they have no national access telescope 🔭 #ISYA2024DZ
Plot of phases of water in comets
We start the 2nd week of the #ISYA2024DZ with new activities. First lecture for Sunday is by Naceur Bouziani (CRAAG, Algeria) on the composition of comets and conditions of water phases in them. 🔭 #ISYA #IAU
and because light polution is high here now, they are pushing for a new 🔭 observatory in the Aures mountains. Much discussion now on the pros and cons of the site #ISYA2024DZ ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019JPhC...
We are learning from Nassim Seghouani (CRAAG, Algeria) that this was the second 🔭 observatory built in the African continent, after SAAO. We will be visiting and using! the telescopes tonight. Expectation among the 30 #ISYA2024DZ students.
We are at Algiers observatory (1890-) today, where we have flash talks on the 🔭 research interests of #ISYA2024DZ students, and Marat Gilfanov (MPA, Germany) is giving his last lecture on High Energy Astrophysics. Beautiful library, mind you. Quite a treat to be here! #ISYA
Observing proposal form
Roger Hajjar (Vanier College, Canada) distributing group projects to #ISYA2024DZ students. They have to submit a proposal on transit planets, variable stars, open clusters, surface brightness of galaxies or NEOs our #ISYA committee to use LCO 🔭. Will this be easier than ranking JWST proposals? 🙏
Amina Boulkaboul on astronomical coordinate systems.
Observational #astronomy 🔭 is now with Amina Boulkaboul (CRAAG, Algeria) at #ISYA2024DZ @ #IAU #ISYA . All those angles to consider when we prepare observations with a telescope! Students are discoveting spherical trigonometry 😅
After James, it will be Sandro Bressan (SISSA, Italy) and me (INAOE, Mexico), lecturing on Stellar Evolution and Galaxies 🔭 . Sandro has me as an aid in the class, so no reporting for the rest of the morning... #ISYA2024DZ #ISYA #IAU
James Chibueze lecturing on radio emission mechanisms.
James Chibueze (UNISA/NWU, South Africa) starts his course on Radioastronomy 🔭 at #ISYA2024DZ on a mission to populate Africa with #Meerkat and #SKA users. Watch out other wavelength astronomers! #ISYA #IAU
And some observational astronomy 🔭 proposal writing by Roger Hajjar (Vanier College, Canada). #ISYA2024DZ #ISYA
Sundays are working days in #Algeria and the afternoon of the first #ISYA2024DZ day starts with Marat Gilfanov (MPA, Germany) reviewing old style, on the board, radiative processes important for his High Energy Astrophysics course. #ISYA 🔭
First practical exercise: create chaos and distinguish between instability and chaos in the orbits of small bodies in the solar system 🔭 "Planetary science is old but new in how we can calculate their dynamics" (Bouziani) #ISYA2024DZ
Naceur Bouziani starting his lecture course
First lecture of the day on Solar System by Naceur Bouziani (CRAAG, Algeria). We start with a historical overview on how planets, asteroids, comets etc have been discovered through time #ISYA2024DZ
