Members of the Harford County Astronomical Society, Bel Air, MD, had planned to set up telescopes and binoculars for a public viewing session.   Since it was completely clouded out, we had indoor presentations and a tour of our observatory located at Harford Community College, Bel Air, MD.  Even though the weather precluded a viewing session, we still had 21 visitors for the night and 12 club members.   We gave out Sun Fact Sheets, Moon maps with moon fact sheets, NASA stickers, Kepler Bookmarks, Stereo Cards, EPOXI cards, Year of Solar System fact sheets, Citizen Scientist sheets and star charts.   We have a brief meteorite presentation that centered around how to identify a meteorite.   We also showed the movie "Journey to the Stars".   While touring the dome area of the observatory a presentation about telescopes and how they were work was also done.   Our program lasted a little more than 2 hours. 

On April 17, 2011, from 11 AM to 4 PM members of Harford County Astronomical Society, Bel Air, MD had a display set up at a local Earth Day event.    Our focus for the day was Light Pollution and way to combat the issue.   We gave out Good Neighbor Lighting materials to adults and gave children light pollution coloring sheets as well as space stickers to remind them to turn off lights so we can see the night sky.   We also gave out Hubble lithos, Year of the Solar System information, comet bookmarks, EPOXI mission postcards, MESSENGER Mission stickers, NASA stickers and a club form with interesting astronomy websites and a pattern to make a planisphere.   We had an astrophotography display and eclipse glasses so visitors could safely take a look at the sun.   Children are so much fun with eclipse glasses.   The most common answer to "what does the sun look like with the eclipse glasses" is "it looks like the moon".   The number of visitors we had for this event was greatly reduced this year.   The event was scheduled for April 16, however, intense rain and tornado warnings on the 16th necessitated moving the event to April 17.   It was very windy and the park was very muddy.    We had 127 visitors, about 1/4 what we normally have at this event. 

Date : April 2nd to May 30th 

Event location : Morocco

Event description : National contest ( solar system models ) 

The contest started on April 2^nd at Rabat in the National Commission for UNESCO office with a ceremony attended by teachers comming from all regions of Morocco.

Date: 28 April, 2011

Asociaţia Astronomică“Sirius”-Club UNESCO

Public solar viewing and a little observer looking through our 50cm RC-telescope at night
more information: www.harpoint-observatory.com/deutsch/publikationen.htm#link19

Mexican group GRUPO ASTRONOMICO KEPLER reports its activities during Astronomy Month 2011 "GAM2011"

Our group participated during 3 days offering live views of the Sun through refractor and reflector Solar Telescopes during an event hosted by the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in its Universum Museum. More than 1000 people did observed and got astonished by the views they looked at.

Also our group hosted three conferences during the event, one about the Solar System, other about the history of notable astronomers and the last one about astrophotogrphy on one shot.

Day-1 (Tuesday, April 25 2011)
At 08:00pm the member of CASA | Club Astronomi Santri Assalaam (Assalaam's Students Astronomy Club),  conduct discussion about celestial object and definitions used in astronomical such as what is azimuth, horizon, distance in degree, etc. The member of CASA also introduced tools for observing the sky such telescope, binocular, and SLR (Single Lens Reflect) digital camera. We used Starry Nigth Pro 6 to simulate the sky, the celestial object, and it’s movement. The members of CASA were very exited. They got a lot of new knowledge about sky and astronomy. The discussion finished at 09:30pm.

For GAM2011 Global Star Party we hold a discussion and star party event in cultural park in Bandung. Unfortunately the weather in april wasn't good at all, so we can only watch the moon for a while and than we have a discussion session for the whole night.