{"id":6890,"date":"2009-01-16T04:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T17:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/01\/16\/international-year-of-astronomy-2009\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:54:14","slug":"international-year-of-astronomy-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/01\/16\/international-year-of-astronomy-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"International Year of Astronomy &#8212; 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhhdRaGApd1tE4mZQldE1uWZVqpb2rCQyOf6wwfl6tKajO-myRQ-eDf0c0Lgz6tv2DRSGlNlnv9JQbVA7Rx0u254iu6hkkzbKiVlYSeOP6Pl1UucKpiYyLJubXtqUrD7JweX6wPloezk8I\/s1600-h\/logo_galileoscope.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/logo_galileoscope.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291748842148206594\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Hey, the signals are electromagnetic. They are very QRP. And the receivers (well, at least the &#8220;amplifiers&#8221;) are often homebrew. It&#8217;s 400 years since Galileo spotted Jupiter&#8217;s moons. To commemorate this, we have IYA2009. The organizers are developing a program to allow people to build their own simple telescopes, and are encouraging those who already have &#8216;scopes to get out and let their neighbors take a look at the wonders of the universe. We did a bit of this &#8220;sidewalk astronomy&#8221; in London. We&#8217;ll do our part for IYA2009 by taking our 6 inch Dobsonian out into the piazza here in Trastevere. Check out the project web site:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.astronomy2009.org\/globalprojects\/cornerstones\/galileoscope\/\">http:\/\/www.astronomy2009.org\/globalprojects\/cornerstones\/galileoscope\/ <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, the signals are electromagnetic. They are very QRP. And the receivers (well, at least the &#8220;amplifiers&#8221;) are often homebrew. It&#8217;s 400 years since Galileo spotted Jupiter&#8217;s moons. To commemorate this, we have IYA2009. The organizers are developing a program to allow people to build their own simple telescopes, and are encouraging those who already &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/01\/16\/international-year-of-astronomy-2009\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;International Year of Astronomy &#8212; 2009&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6892,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6890\/revisions\/6892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}