How to participate in the lunar marathon?

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On the Moon Again, Lunar marathon © On the moon again

By: Caroline Lachowsky

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How to participate in the lunar marathon?

This weekend all over the Earth, we're celebrating on the Moon with a telescope and astronomical telescope to share ... Also to be followed online 24 hours non-stop observations of our satellite. 

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Let's celebrate on the Moon, by sharing telescopes and astronomical observation glasses, some of which will even fall from the sky today: we will indeed announce the new winner of the astronomical telescope offered by SSVi and RFI in partnership with the web review

Astronomy Africa

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We invite you all, wherever you are on Earth, to participate in the

On the moon again

this weekend: 24 hours non-stop observation of our satellite, to follow live and online! A great first under the Moon which will not set at all on the weekend, since this marathon will start on Saturday at 10 a.m. UT in New Zealand, then will continue its course from Asia to Europe, via the Americas. to end Sunday morning at 10 a.m. UT in Dakar with a conference by 

Maram Kairé

, the president of the Senegalese Association for the Promotion of Astronomy, the first Senegalese whose asteroid now bears the name.

Follow our astronomical guide, planetologist 

Sylvain Bouley

, professor at Paris Saclay and president of the

Astronomical Society of France,

which is organizing this exceptional lunar marathon.

All information on the site 

On the Moon again

.

Congratulations to the new astronomical telescope winner: Dieumerci Kaseha from Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo !!!

We wish him lots of nice observations !!!

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