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Ramadhan pages for 2016/1437h
The start of the Ramadhan month is for the 6th or 7th of June according to various jurisprudential views.
As for the Eid date, it should be on the 6th of July based on naked eye sighting and on the 5th based on a precomputed method...
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Race to Space Contest : The Race to Space contest has been launched officially. This program organized by Sirius in coordination with the Educational Service of the US Embassy at Algiers. Six happy laureates will go for a week to the Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama this Summer. Updated info here... |
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The Ibn al-Haytham Days II: Constantine 24-25 January 2016 : Closing the IYL2015 in Algeria in beauty with this last national event organized in coordination with the Physics Department. Plenty of activities and some high powered lecturers and two large scientific exhibits from Sirius and the CDTA ... More
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The
Intl. Year of Light 2015 still shinning : Constantine, Mentouri Univ & Constantine-3 Universities: More programs within IYL015 events with lectures and expositions. One was with the opening of Nadi Ihya el-Ouloum and the other one was the featured Conference of Prof.Melikechi ... from DSU in USA. |
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The
December Winter Retreat in the Aures Mountain range : 18-20 Dec - 2015: Training at El-Kantara in astrophotography and telescope sighting for the 40 strong Sirius members. Opening the skies to the local population- Visit of the Roman bridge and the Rhoufi Canyon with its troglodytic dwellings. |
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The
14th Popular Astronomy Festival : Constantine, 08-10 Oct - 2015: "20 Years of Exoplanets"
The count down is on for the yearly astronomy meeting for the professional and amateur astronomers from
all over the region with its usual rich program. The XXth century is indeed becoming the Exoplanets century. It is also a celebration of World Space Week 2015..... More
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Rewarding the Three Laureates of Cirta-Science7 : 05-11 Sept - 2015: A Scientific Marathon through Southern France visiting the OHP Observatory, the international fusion project ITER at Cadarache, the plateau de Calern facility near Grasse, and the Nice Observatory among other things... More |
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Eid al-Fitr page for 2015/1436h: The Eid crescent is not going to be seen on the evening of July 16 since the Moon will basically set along the Sun
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Collective Ftour & Outreach
Sirius organized several nightly events reaching out locally and across three continents... Read
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Following the Track of the Cosmic Caravan (CCC):
The unfolding of a success story! Since the past three years, CCC has been moving through cultural centers, schools, universities, youth gatherings throughout the Constantine borders and even others Wilayates. It aims at initiating the public to the mysteries of the Universe and bringing to it the message of science ... More
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The Ouargla Salon on Popularisation of Science:Ouargla 19-21 May 2015. Sirius was a major partner in this big show organized for the student community of Ouargla University. Both CCC and various Sirius exhibits were mobilized to make this show a success ... More
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The Ibn al-Haytham Days:Constantine 21-22 April 2015. They took place at Mentouri University. They are organized by the Math Depart and Sirius and consist in a Colloquium ("Shedding light on light") and an exhibit : "Cosmic Symphonia". The "Caravan of Light" from CDTA was also present in force... More
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The
Intl. Year of Light 2015: Algiers- 11April . Kicking off the IYL2015 in Algeria at the Moufdi Zakaria Cultural Palace in presence of the UNESCO Director. Sirius was at the heart of the event with the largest stand of all : 150 square meters of pure display : all the physics of light in the Heaven and the Earth ... More
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The
March 20th Partial Solar Eclipse : Constantine, Sirius will make sure that the public will be able to follow properly this cosmic event The eclipse watch will take place on Friday in downtown Constantine with plenty of telescopes and eclipse glasses .... More
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The
International Year of Light 2015: Paris, UNESCO. 19 Jan. Sirius was there at the grand opening among the World delegations. It has also set up a rich yearly program of activities to celebrate light both locally and nationally. Ibn al-Haitham, the father of optics, has been taken as the emblematic figure of the celebration ... More
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The
13th Popular Astronomy Festival : Constantine, 25-27 Sept - 2014: Bringing Cosmology to the public
Amateur and professional astronomers from
all over the region will be converging to Constantine.. The theme this year will be "Man & the Cosmos" and there will be like usual a rich program. It is also a celebration of World Space Week 2014, although due to Eid al-fitr coming in early October we had to advance the date by a week..... More
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Rewarding the Laureates of Cirta-Science6 with a modern day adventure: 08-15 Sept - 2014:. From LHC at its two mammoth detectors ATLAS and CMS, to the Paul Scherrer Institute at Zurich, to the Leibstadt nuclear power plant, to Einstein apartment at Bern, to the Geneva observatory and much more. A septimana mirabilis for the 12 youths of this scientific caravan which crisscrossed this peaceful land... More
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Ramadhan pages for 2014/1435h
The Eid celebration should be on Tuesday July 29 for Algeria and the Muslim World according to the crescent visibility and the various astronomical visibility criteria. It could only be Monday 28 of July if based on a visual crescent mis-identification in Algeria or the Arab countries, or if one use the strict computation method uncorrelated with the direct crescent visibility.... Read
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Along
the Path of Eratosthenes :
21 June 2014:
Constantine
Measuring
Earth's diameter 2200 years after the Alexandrian scholar,
that's what hundreds of kids and adults alike will do in
partnership with a network of associations across Algeria
and the World. Sirius is also part of the SAF and AFA network
Journée du Soleil- Pierres Bourge" as well as
the network of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina ... More
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Sirius
in Central Africa for the Nov 3, 2013 total Solar Eclipse
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Sirius
was invited to participate to the observation campaign for
the total solar eclipse going through the heart of Africa
after having crossed the Atlantic ocean. Its president was
also requested to give public lectures and astronomy workshops
at Libreville.. Here is a photoreportage
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The
Constantine Cosmic Caravan with Prof.Oluseyi
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October 6, 2013
Thanks
to the US Cultural Section al Algiers, we were able to have
Prof. Oluseyi, a cosmologist and science media star from
Florida Institute of Technology to give a series of lectures
to the general public, an University audience and Middle
School students. Following the trail of the speaker ... More here. |
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The
Popular Astronomy Festival
in its 12th Edition : Constantine,
3-5 0ct - 2013
Bringing together amateur and professional astronomers from
all over the region, that's the ambition of these epoch
making popular Festivals. This year's theme chosen by "World
Space Week" is : Exploring
Mars - Discovering Earth ". We will be discussing the new wave of robotic exploration
spacecrafts to the Red Planet.... More
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Cirta-Science
5: to the land of the Rising Sun:
Japan ,
10-17 Sept - 2013
The
three laureates of the year 2013 competition went to Japan
and visited the Nobeyama radiotelescope and the legendary
Mount Fuji in addition to various cultural and tourist
peregrinations in and around Tokyo. The group made it
through a typhoon and a (mild) earthquake... More
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Special
Ramadhan pages for 2013/1434h
The Eid
celebration could either be on Thursday August 8 (No
account for crescent sighting) or on Friday August 9 according
to effective crescent sighting. See our press releases Here
and Here
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As for Ramadhan beginning,
the conjunction of the new Moon will be on July 08 at 07:14
UT. The crescent won't be visible anywhere in Algeria as
the Moon sets before the Sun in Northern Algeria...
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Concluding
a busy Year 2013 :
6 of July,
Constantine
It
was a long year and all needed a break. An end of the year
event was organized at Mansoura's Youth House to celebrate
the season's end, assess the year long achievements and
congratulate those who graduated. A festive ambiance among
much astronomical animation. ... More
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Along
the Path of Eratosthenes :
20 -June 2013
Measuring
Earth's diameter 2200 years after the Alexandrian scholar,
that's what hundreds of kids and adults alike did from Constantine
in coordination with the Astronomy section at the Bibliotheca
Alexandrina . Sirius set up a regional network spanning
Algeria from East, to West and South reaching till the Djerba
Island in Tunisia. The diameter results were quite close
to those expected ... More
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Back
to the Big Bang :
16 May -2013
A
series of lectures organized by Sirius at Constantine University
at the occasion of the physics Masterclass organized by
the LPMPS Labo and ICTP-Udine LHC group. The speakers were
two high energy experimental physicists from Trieste in
Italy. It was about the physics of the LHC and how it may
help us understand the Universe at Big Bang time ...More
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The Constantine
Cosmic Caravan in action
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April 19, 2013
Launched
to coincide National Student Day, the Constantine Cosmos
Caravan kick off was from the heartland of the Engineering
bloc of Constantine University at the Chaabat Errassas
campus on 19th of April. Large crowds were there to take
the fascinating journey through day long planetarium shows
and an exquisite astronomy exhibit ... More
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