Algeria
2024
This speach beginns 11 years ago.... at
the
ESOP23. In Prague I meet Baba Aisa Djounai the first time.
Baba Aisa Djounai was a good ambassador for his country. I learned
something about Algeria and its active astronomy community.
On a small piece of paper he wrote some details about his country
We agreed that I have to visit Algeria
one day....Ten years later there was a good chance at a star
occultation by the minor planet (16)Psyche at 8 October 2024. The
asteroid occults at this night a six mag star!
Psyche ist interesting because it's the target of a space mission:
In the same
night Neptune occults a 11mag star.
The cross is the position of the 11 mag star.
The occultation was combined with a astronomical meeting in
Laghouat.
Laghouat is a city in the desert 600km south of Algiers.
We drive over the 2000m high Atlas moutains near the coast
In the mountains the temperatures drop von 37 to 27 degree.
After the mountains the landscape become dry.
We saw little Salt-Sees and a desertstorm.
In Laghouat there was a friendly welcome.
During a short tour of the conference building, a film was shown, among
other things, reporting on the activities of Algerian amateur
astronomers.
Imparting knowledge to children is an important topic, but there are
also observational excursions into the snow-covered mountains
in winter.
Three group photos were taken to comment the result of the observation
planned for the following day.
Unfortunately the weather was bad and the last picture presents the
results :-(
South of my position we had a positive result.
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Result
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