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Pedro Russo
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Hi!
The Communicating Astronomy with the Public Journal #4 is out! - www.capjournal.org
Here at the CAPjournal we are always keen to find new ways of disseminating
available astronomy education and public outreach (EPO) resources.
Wearing my International Year of Astronomy 2009 hat, I need to find new ways of re-using
the resources available to our IYA2009 partners and ensure that they are available to other
nations and organisations. We see IYA2009 as a huge opportunity to empower networks
and to exploit all available material.
If we could count the number of astronomy EPO resources available on the web, our
minds would be blown by the enormous number of terabytes out there — many more
than the data from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Unfortunately, these resources are not easy to translate or adapt to different languages
and cultures. Principally because, either the original materials were not developed with
portability in mind, or the source files are simply not available.
Imagine a website where anyone can download, access, reuse, recycle and adapt content
to different languages and cultures. The first steps towards this have come from
Spain, where a group of aficionados are translating and adapting electronic EPO content
into Spanish using professionally minded volunteers. The network astroseti.org translates
and adapts news, documents, brochures, educational material and presentations,
specifically to promote and disseminate astronomy. This group are setting an example
to follow! The IYA2009 Cornerstone, the Portal to the Universe, hopes to continue their
efforts and is attempting to fill this niche.
CAPjournal is protected by a Creative Commons License, which enables you to copy,
distribute and transmit the content under certain conditions, such as for non-commercial
proposes. So we practise what we preach!
In this issue, Mathew McCool, Professor of Writing at the Southern Polytechnic SU
(Atlanta, USA) provides tips on how to avoid cultural and linguistic tangles in astronomy
communication. Also be sure to check out the articles on achieving high levels of media
coverage, the upcoming Venus-Jupiter conjunction and what journalists really think about
scientists...
Between issues you can stay in touch through our website, www.capjournal.org, where
you will find the current issue in PDF format, a job bank, submission guidelines and back
issues. You can also post anything you have to say on the site or e-mail me at editor@
capjournal.org. I’d like to know what you think!
Although space is filling quickly for #5 we warmly welcome your
submissions, ads, reviews, etc. Please check the submission guidelines
on: http://www.capjournal.org/submission.php . The deadline for the next
issue is 15. October.
Enjoy,
Pedro Russo (editor@capjournal.org)
Editor-in-Chief, CAPjournal
IAU & ESA/Hubble
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I really like this CAPjournal. 
I'll have to set aside a larger chunk of time to read all through the back issues.
I do school events, both nighttime and solar with the school my 3 boys attended. They have moved on to Jr. High and High School, but I'm still arranging events with their old school. I like the 2 science teachers I've worked with and enjoy the reactions and enthusiasm of these younger students (and their parents  ) so I intend to continue the meager "program" as long as I can.
Sometimes, I think I'd like to ad another elementary school or two, maybe in the neighborhood of my office which would involve many underpriviledged children. Of course, with 3 school age boys of my own and plenty of their extracurricular activities, I'm a little limited in how much extra I can juggle. 
I'll just keep the ideas simmering on the back burner until they've gone off to college.
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- david
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PST Oberwerk Ultra 15x70 Orion Ultraview 10×50
Hand-me-down Sears Refractor (Discoverer) 60mm×900mm
"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world, remains and is immortal." --Albert Pike
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Matthew Ota
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I get the CAP Journal in the mail. Very good work, and the price is right, too.
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Matthew Ota
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Pedro Russo
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Hi,
Welcome to the first CAPjournal issue of 2009, the International Year of Astronomy!
http://www.capjournal.org/issues/05/index.php
Assuming you haven’t been living in a cave or anywhere equally remote for the past few months, you will be keenly aware of the International Year of Astronomy 2009, a global celebration of astronomy and its contribution to scientific development and cultural enrichment. Organised by the International Astronomical Union and UNESCO, it has been many years in the making. Now is the time to celebrate! However, we astronomy communicators have the responsibility to make this year an example to follow throughout 2009 and beyond.
The European astronomical community has recently put together an unparalleled strategic plan for European Astronomy, the ASTRONET Infrastructure Roadmap. This lays out long-term scientific and investment plans for European astronomy over the next 10–20 years. This time education and public outreach (EPO) were not forgotten, and they play a major role in the document. A group of European experts analysed the current status of EPO in Europe and outlined a list of recommendations to implement over the coming years and decades. Working side by side with research, public outreach will require an effective synergy of resources across Europe and beyond. In this issue we reproduce the subchapter dedicated to Public Outreach. IYA2009 may represent the first real step towards the strategic goals laid down by the ASTRONET panel. The full, and very interesting, report may be found at www.astronet-eu.org.
Winds of change are already blowing across Europe. Last year the European Commission awarded its Science Communication Prizes to three of the most influential astronomy communicators in Europe, Jean-Pierre Luminet, Communicator of the Year, Peter Leonard in the Category of Audiovisual Documentary of the Year for his programme, Most of our Universe is Missing, and Nuno Crato, finalist in the category Science Communicator of the Year, a Portuguese mathematician and an astronomy enthusiast. In this issue we have the pleasure of sharing with you some tips from the 2007 Science Communicator of the Year in Europe, in an interview with Jean-Pierre Luminet.
Also in this issue, Daniel Kunth provides useful insights into the long-lived tumultuous relationship between astronomy and astrology, Greg Martin shares with us his know-how in space art, and Emily Lakdawalla summarises upcoming Solar System missions.
Between issues you can stay in touch through our website, www.capjournal.org, where you will find the current issue in PDF format, a job bank, submission guidelines
and back issues. You can also post anything you have to say on the site or e-mail me at editor@capjournal.org. I’d like to know what you think!
Happy reading and a successful 2009,
Pedro Russo
Editor-in-Chief, CAPjournal
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