2024-07-23 08:22:05
To observe the amazing starry sky of the southern hemisphere with young and old, from forest villages to cities: how do the universal astronomers of the Haikintana group (astronomy in Malagasy) share their telescopes?
On the way to the Mahajanga Festival under the stars set by theAlliance Française de Mahajanga !
Facing the Mozambique channel, the 4th part of the astronomical journey is in Madagascar where we find a strong group of Malagasy and French astronomers, who install their telescopes under the setting sun. Residents, young and old, are all there to observe our star, the Sun, through a telescope. “Be careful, it’s burning” as the astronomer explained to them Ando Rajaonarivelo, A common thread for this show, a researcher astronomer, researcher, founder and chairman of the astronomical association Haikintana and director of the‘Besely observatory : the 1. and only robotic observatory in Madagascar, installed in the heart ofBesely International School
A unique campus of its kind is frequented by children from the area (who sometimes travel miles to come and study and eat there, literally and figuratively but also… and to play in the astronomical game as the astrophysicist wrote publicly for them. Jean-Philippe Uzan (report from Caroline Filliette)
With a scientist, David Baratoux (iRD) which is at the origin of this astronomical distribution in Madagascar
And so on Sylvain Bouley, President of the SAF (astronomical society of France)a cosmologist at the Paris Saclay University who presented the Rfi, SSVI and SAF telescopes, to the young president of the new department of the new group. Haikintana arrived in Mahajanga
In this journey as sunny as it is lunar, we will meet many shooting and inspiring stars under the sky of Madagascar…
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