What a fun day it was at the Texas Night Sky Festival! There were a lot of girl scouts and families there ready to learn about how to save our night sky and learn about astronomy. There were so many booths and supporters for the festival! It was inspiring and exciting to see so much…
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We are swimming in the Information Age. With just a click, we can find the answers to any question we have. We can communicate with other countries without paying a cent in international phone charges. This was not so just 20 years ago. So where does education fit into this capability we now have? How…
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2/15 I’m here! It was a beautiful day! My cousin Abel, his brother-in-law and his daughter Luciana picked me up at the airport and brought me to Antigua. I was greeted by my Aunt and Unlce, Marielena and Jorge. I grabbed some great typical food at La Cuevita de los Urquizú and got…
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Getting ready to leave for Guatemala on Monday! Here is one of the two scopes that YOUR donations purchased. Thank you to Shellie Rosen, Dave English, The Nieto Family, The McCabe-Cataña Family, David Mathias, President of the Austin Astronomical Society, Beau Wheeler and Family, Jake Stewart, Lori Paredes, Abel Paredes, Dorothy Jackson, Preescolarte Spanish…
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My all time favorite science communicator and astrophysicist is Neil deGrasse Tyson. I have a secret crush on him (don’t tell my husband, oh wait… he already knows and surprises me with his videos all the time). I have shown this video to students in the past and stopped recently. Every time I watch it,…
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We are hiring educators who love science and astronomy and are interested in joining to create a team of inspired educators to bring more of Starry Sky Austin’s programs to the public. This is a contract and as needed position that varies in frequency. Please email your resume to amy@starryskyaustin.com.
My father is from Guatemala and my mother is from Texas. I have fond memories of traveling every summer to Guatemala to visit my cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents. I hadn’t been back to visit in almost 6 years until this past Thanksgiving. We traveled with our whole immediate family and brought our 3 daughters.…
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Please go to the observatory’s new website to find out about observatory programs: https://parks.traviscountytx.gov/find-a-park/reimers-ranch/observatory This Fall I began working at the Travis County Reimers Observatory! It has to be by far the best job I’ve had (aside from being the director of Starry Sky Austin, of course!) It is open to small groups of 30…
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This past fall, I taught a 10 week long semester astronomy class for the first time. We met at Longview Park in South Austin and covered all sorts of new topics such as black holes, astrobiology and the search for exoplanets, life without a supernova, stellar evolution, cosmic timescales and stellar distances and so much more!…
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I’ve been getting lot of emails and calls about what telescope to buy your loved one. What I have seen happen is that people usually start looking for something affordable and seemingly easy to use. Most settle on something with a tripod and maybe get fancy and get a ‘go-to’ system that will find the…
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