Global Astronomy Month - Members Blog

Hello I am Johannes Stübler, AWB-National-Coordinator of Austria. I am starting my tour “From Orient to Occident-One People, One Sky” on 23.4.2010. I will travell together with my wife with my astro-equipped campervan to some arabic countries. I will do some astronomic observations on the fly and will try to get some contacts to people of Turkey, Syria and Jordan by sharing the fascination of our sky – One People, One Sky. I have established some contacts to official astronomic societies and organisations and I have got some invitations to talk there about AWB and what we are doing. During this 6 week-journey I will proudly play the role as an “Ambassador” of Astronomers Without Borders. I will deliver AWB’s mission and goal to foster understanding and goodwill across national and cultural boundaries by creating relationships through the universal appeal of astronomy. Doing this trip should represent a kind of bow to the importance of Arabic countries and their historic influence on astronomy appreciating the fact that Arabic countries are some of the most important cradles of astronomy. I will report about my journey on our website.