Watch IYA2009 Closing Ceremony Live from Padua, Italy

It's the IYA2009 closing ceremony which is the major focus online, among astronomy folks, No exception here as well in Sri Lanka, Just catch up the latest happenings of IYA2009 - Closing ceremony if you didn't make it to Padua already.

You can watch the Closing ceremony Live here with the internet broadcast at the beyond2009 site.

The Live Link : http://www.virtualmeeting.info/astronomy/beyond2009/diretta.html

And never miss the LiveBlog of Lee Pullen here at Cosmic Diary :)

Here is the Link, it's a live update blog and keep refreshing the page at regular intervals to get the latest posts.
http://cosmicdiary.org/closing_ceremony/

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A tour to Tangalle in seach of Better skies , December 2009 featuring with Google Map

Last December 2009, we went to Tangalle, located in Southeastern Sri Lanka in search of better skies. Tangalla was ideal for deep sky observation with it's less light-polluted environment.


Here is the Google map that I've created featuring the tour, in search of better skies.

Here is the link for Google Map


http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=117780149433056460395.00047c4032bd4340b2611

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A Tribute to Fiami the author of The Lives of Galileo

I have already made a post about Fiami, and his great gift that I received during the Christmas season. I got many great feedback on that and even my friends wanted to read it, as none of them had the comic book with them, So I thought of doing a youtube video featuring Fiami,

I think you guys have visited his site @ fiami.ch and in addition you can find different translations of this book as well, Fiami has also authored a special comic book which is titled The Lives of Einstein, the way Fiami sees and make others understand simple fact very easily , is really great




Here it is!! Go ahead and watch it !! Please don't forget to rate and comment as well.





You can also see his special autographed, dedicated to me. The most significant thing was that he's drawn a picture of his comic Galileo in the blank page just before the inner back cover, The comic Galileo is uttering "Hello Desh, My Dear Colleague'
In fact I couldn't believe that in the beginning as it was a so inspiring autograph !!

Here are the photos that I took to highlight this great gift !!


Thank you so much Fiami !!
My thank also should go to Sabrina Masiero of Italy for letting me the chance to get in touch with this great Swiss author !! I can also think this is a present for me for IYA2009 or the new year as well, You guys just tell what you think, then !!

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Happy New Year 2010 & Thank you

Happy New Year to you all !!

2009 is gone and a new decade has come into being !!
During 2009 many changes came into effect in 2009. For Sri Lanka, the civil war ended in May 2009, That was the biggest victory in 2009 for International Year of Astronomy !!

However I'd take this opportunity to thank you all for being with me and my blog throughout this period right from the beginning !! Moreover your support was a great blessing for me to keep continuing my blogging task on IYA2009 astronomy Sri Lanka, Your comments were nice and they ended up making many links with each other. It was a great collaboration right from the beginning !!



My facebook friends were also fans of this astronomy blog, Prof. Kavan , Mark, Mike, Sabrina, Arif, Fiami, Bertha, Jo, Paulie, Remko, Gayandhi, Anu, Hasitha, Thilina and all others were readers of my blog and sometimes we worked together to achieve certain milestones and I believe that's the key feature that enabled us in getting so closer in International Year of Astronomy.

Moreover Google also helped me and I have received Google PageRank 5 at the moment.

Hats off to you all !!!

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IYA 2009 is gone, what's next?

Well now today is 01st of January 2010. To be precise it's 0202h local time in Sri lanka.
IYA 2009 is gone now. Literally International Year of Astronomy 2009 is no longer. So what's next?

Will there be another International year of Astronomy in future or will the legacies continue? Who knows, Be on lookout !!

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