Graduation day at Yachay Tech University! We have 32 more #ISYA alumni now! #ISYA46 International School for Young Astronomers 2025 Ecuador 🔭

We are comanding the 1.6m 🔭 in Pico Dos Dias, Brazil, from Yachay Tech University in #Ecuador at #ISYA46 . We have a bunch of galaxies in our list for tonight.

Observing night at #ISYA46 in Ecuador with the 1.6m 🔭 in Pico dos Dias, Brazil, lead by Karín Menéndez-Delmestre (Valongo, UFRJ) and her PhD students.

Today at #ISYA46 we have lectures on Virtual Observatory by Thiago S. Gonçalves @astrogoncalves.bsky.social (Valongo, UFRJ, Brazil) ... lots of progress in the computer room #ISYA

Today at #ISYA46 , among other topics, how to write a scientific paper by #ISYA Deputy Director David Mota (Univ Oslo, Norway) with lots of interesting bibliography! 🔭

Students at #ISYA46 designing #Astrotourism activities as part of the Cultural Astronomy course that follows @astro4dev.bsky.social methodology. They are guided by lecturer Nico Vásquez (EPN, #Ecuador) 🔭

Our local director of #ISYA46 Nicolás Vázquez (EPN, #Ecuador) starts his course on Cultural Astronomy, on the social value of doing #Astronomy 🔭 #ISYA

But he is also into #Astrophotography : view of the Milky Way from Yachay Tech Univ. campus with a Smartphone, superposing 4sec integration images. Our students cannot say any longer they have not yet seen it with their own eyes #ISYA46 #ISYA 🔭 📷

It is Igancio Ranea's (Argentina) last lecture on Compact Objects at #ISYA46 in #Ecuador, and he is today doing a through tour on Black Hole physics 🔭 #ISYA

The 46th #ISYA at the Yachay Tech University, in Ecuador, has gathered 32 students from 11 Latin American & Caribbean countries. The students participating in this 3-week program are meeting with an international team of expert lecturers from 8 countries to enhance their research work. 🔭 #ISYA46

Karín Menéndez Delmestre (Obs Valongo, Brazil) getting the students at #ISYA46 ready for observations with a 1.6m professional 🔭 in her Observational Astronomy course #ISYA

Juan Rafael Martínez Galarza (CfA, USA), an #ISYA alumni from 2005, is starting his course on Machine Learning for #Astrophysics at #ISYA46 in #Ecuador 🔭

Ignacio Ranea (Univ. Nac. La Plata, Argentina) is starying today his course on Compact Objects at #ISYA46 in Ecuador #ISYA 🔭

Today Sandro Bressan (SISSA, Italy) starts his Stellar Evolution course at #ISYA46 in Ecuador 🔭 #ISYA

Today @ #ISYA46 we have started the courses on Radioastronomy 🔭 by Helga Denés and Python for Astronomy by Wladimir Banga Barragán, both from Uni Yachay Tech, Ecuador #ISYA

Students at #ISYA46 are now split into groups to start projects they will have to develop throughout the school and present towards the end. Here they are led by tutors Helga Denés (YTU, Ecuador) and Fernando Buitrago (U. Valladolid, Spain). #ISYA 🔭

Laurence Sabin (IA-UNAM, Mexico) is starting her course on Interstellar Medium at #ISYA46 , the first lecture of the 🔭 #ISYA #astronomy #school