Why connect to the African sky?
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NASA observed a stellar occultation from central Senegal ... @ Sylvain Bouley
By: Caroline Lachowsky
50 min
Why connect to the African sky?
How to develop astronomy and planetary and space sciences on the continent?
Sidereal answers under the Dakar sky around the first astronomy magazine in Africa ...
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Let's observe the sky from the African continent, the new promised land of astronomy!
The sky is less disturbed there than elsewhere by our light pollution and the continent is full of astronomical talents, those of tomorrow but also those of today.
As proof, the NASA observation campaigns have been entrusted to
the Senegalese Association for the Promotion of Astronomy
.
Its director Maram Kairé is in duplex with us, from Dakar, to celebrate the launch of the magazine
Astronomie Afrique.
With
Maram Kairé
, astronomer and specialist in the space sector (in duplex from Dakar) and
Sylvain Bouley
, planetologist for the publication of
Astronomie Afrique
: web review, quarterly and free, including number 0 (dedicated to Mars and the latest news on the African astronomy) is released today.
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