GAM Newsletter 12 April 2010

The Latest GAM News

Star of GAM Enters Spotlight SunDay kicks off Solar Week activities

30 Nights of StarPeace Phase Four 30 Nights of StarPeace reaches Europe and Africa

Lord of the Rings Back on Screen Saturn is back in focus for several programs

Astropoetry for Global Astronomy Month 2010 Special project launched for GAM

GAM Event Reports on the Members Blog

SPACE celebrated GAM at Jantar Mantar GAM at an ancient observatory in Delhi, India.

Clouds and Dust! 30 Nights of StarPeace from Iraq to the world

New Zealand kicks off GAM 2010 GAM opening event under southern skies

And elsewhwere: Watch the GAM Online Messier Marathon - the whole night in under two minutes!

Other Announcements

Take your own astrophotos during GAM
A new guide to photo opportunities during GAM tells you about the best celestial events to photographer with simple camera equipment. Give it your best shot!

GAM Picture of the Day
Have you got a great photo of your GAM event? Send it to gampod@gam-awb.org and we may choose it for the GAM Picture of the Day. Be sure to tell us who is in the photo, what's happening, where it is and when the photo was taken. And check out all the GAMPODs so far!

GAM logo translations available
With the addition of Farsi, the GAM logo is now available in 14 languages. Send request for GAM logos in other languages, along with the translated text, to info@gam-awb.org.

The GAM trailer -- 2-1/2 minutes of astronomy around the world accompanied by music -- is now available in Spanish and Romanian on the GAM Resources page.

Yuri's Night takes place around April 12 in events commemorating the first person in space.

Join the GAM - Astronomers Without Borders team
Join the team bringing GAM to the world and share in the excitement. As GAM expands to more places and more programs, we're expanding the effort to share it all with the world. And not only for GAM - a new Astronomers Without Borders web site with strong social networking capabilities will be launched soon to carry on the programs beyond GAM. All the work of Astronomers Without Borders is carried out by volunteers with limited time. If you have time and interest, we can find a place for you to take part. Some of the tasks during GAM and beyond:

Getting news features, blogs and images on the web site. There are many levels of expertise needed in this effort so it's not necessary to be an expert. Some experience with web sites is helpful (the GAM site is created in Joomla). Familiarity with HTML is very helpful.

Are you an experienced Joomla user or web developer? Help is needed maintaing the new web site to come soon built around JomSocial and other dynamic social networking components.

Are you a writer? Or do you have PR experience? The PR Coordinator can always use a hand.

Other tasks don't require any experience at all. If you have time you'd like to offer then we can use your help!

Write to info@gam-awb.org.

A Word from Our Sponsors

The generous support of our sponsors makes GAM possible.

Explore Scientific, a manufacturer of quality optical instruments, is holding a Telescope and Eyepiece Sale through May 1, 2010 in celebration of NEAIC and NEAF April 15 to 18.

We highly recommend Net-Source Technologies, the developer of the Astronomers Without Borders web site, who is now working on the social networking site to come soon.

Bob Eklund is the Editor of the AWB/GAM website. Contact Bob for writing and editing services ranging from improving and polishing the English in translated documents (from any source language) to writing/editing business correspondence, proposals, newsletters, books and web pages.

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