How to create a network of astronomers on the continent?

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Salma Sylla Mbaye, PhD student at Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal.

© Salma

By: Caroline Lachowsky

1 min

How to create a network of astronomers on the continent?

Crossed glances under the African sky around our new winner of astronomical telescope offered by SSVI, RFI and the magazine l'Astronomie Afrique

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Let's meet with stars in our heads today to announce the name of our new winner (yes winner) of an astronomical telescope under the African sky, and more precisely on the island of Gorée, suspense suspense. .. for our new amateur astronomer who will join the formidable network set up by our laureates who each, in their country and in connection, set up projects and associations... It's inspiring, joyful and promising for astronomy , in general, but also for the development of space sciences and astrophysics in Africa....

With :

- Éric Lagadec,

assistant astronomer at the Lagrange Laboratory of the Côte d'Azur Observatory.

President of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics.

He just came back from Dakar with great astronomical news from Senegal

- Sylvain Bouley,

planetary scientist and lecturer at the Laboratoire Géosciences Paris-Sud (GEOPS) at the University of Saclay, president of

The Astronomical Society of France

- Jean-Pierre Grootaerd,

director 

 Stars shine for everyone: it is he who, from Ghent in Belgium, manufactures, designs and assembles glasses and telescopes to share them with you. 

We will find, at the end of the program, our monthly column

in partnership with

.

And congratulations to our new glasses winner:

in Second S class at the Lycée d'excellence Mariama Ba in Gorée.

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