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By: Azhy Chato Hasan Time returned it self back again with a very nice event which gathered us again between the beginning of cold and hot days of Northern hemisphere winter, and Southern hemisphere Summer solstice.Just like June 21, 2009, AAAK prepared it self for the 2nd version of SWB in Erbil city in Iraqi Kurdistan Region. Clouds began covering the morning blue sky and then there were showers too! So the Star party that we planned for has gone with the wind!But that was not the end of the story! We made presentations between 03:30 pm to 05:00 pm Iraqi local time about: 1. The Seasons without Borders event around the world. 2. The winter and Summer solstice.3. (Our Goals on IYA2009).This was a brief story about our whole events during IYA2009, began with Dawn of IYA2009 and hope it will be ending with Dusk of IYA2009 on December 31, 2009. There were journalists, students, reporters and Religion men participated on or last presentation of IYA2009, They really fascinated with this wonderful relationship and cooperation between Iraqi Kurdistan amateur astronomers with the other part of the world and making all these unforgettable events between each other. One big disappoint thing that happened to us was internet connection which was very bad during our event and did not give us a little chance to made live Skype meeting with the other participants around the world, specially with Marcelo De Soza from Brazil after he arrange him self for that perfectly. On that evening, there was pretty unscheduled meeting between Azhy, Thilina, Mike Simmons and Marcelo! Each one of us described the SWB event on them countries and the weather conditions. We apologized again to Marcelo about failure to meting through internet, and there was pretty sport spirit from every body there! Now we are preparing our self to say (Good Bye IYA2009) though the final event of this busy wonderful year of astronomy with Dusk of IYA2009.
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