Psychological portrait of an astronomer or an astronaut

Few weeks ago, at the small pancake-party we discovered our psychological portraits. I present you my own, which is some kind of an ideal portrait, and I'm proud of it:D (not the best quality, but I'm testing bluetooth connection between Ubuntu 9.04 and my K510i).

Notice small dotted line, this is a zero-line of my profile. Scale is relative, my minimum is 1 and maximum is 8, so zero-line is about 3-4. Now, you can see all pros and cons of my character.

For an ideal astronomer/astronaut it is important to (my result in brackets):

• be keep watching at high level (7)
• be a loner at medium level (5)
• be non-usual at medium level (5)
• be rowdy at zero level (4)
• be changeable at low level (1)
• be dramatic at low level (2)
• be self-sure at medium or high level (5, ok, I have to work on it)
• be sensitive at zero level (3)
• be devoted at zero/medium level (5)
• be hard-working at high level (8)
• be a "comfortable" person at low level (2)
• be an autocratic person at low level (1)
• be offering at zero/medium level (5)
• be serious and medium/high level (6)

As you can see, I am almost an ideal astronomer;p

Our pancake-party finished at half of "La Dolce Vita" by F. Fellini. The half means here: 1h30m without any action. We gived up with the movie.

No more "La Dolce Vita"

ICYA - conference

The International Conference of Young Astronomers (ICYA) is a scientific meeting of undergraduate, graduate, and PhD students of astronomy and physics as well as more advanced astronomers. We, as young scientists, feel a big need to contribute our share to this year’s International Year of Astronomy 2009 and use this opportunity to establish global, annual conference for all scientists, researchers and advanced amateur astronomers who could meet in future and work together in projects which will develop modern astronomy.

For this reason we aim to arrange an international conference to broaden our minds and to discuss challenging issues of astronomy. Furthermore, and most important, the meeting gives a chance to get in touch with other young scientists, with whom we might cooperate in the future.

Our goal is to establish ICYA as a regular conference, held once a year in different countries, connecting young astronomers from all over the world. Let's make it happen!

This year ICYA is organised by the Polish Astronomical Society in collaboration with Polish universities (Jagiellonian University of Cracow, University of Warsaw, Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań, Nicolaus Copernicus University of Toruń, University of Zielona Góra, University of Szczecin and Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre of Polish Academy of Sciences) and hopefully will be supported by foreign universities and astronomical societies as well as international astronomical organizations.

The conference will take place in Cracow, Poland, September 7 – 13.

(I)CYA there!


http://www.icya2009.org/

Astronomer's plant

Certainly astronomers like flowers and other plants. In fact recently we have grown our own plant... or rather we think it's a plant. For few weeks we have cultivated it in proper temperature, humidity, hiding from sun light. Today it has bloom... we think...

Astronomer 's day

One of the most important message this year!
Astronomer's day - 9 may 2009

The Day The Earth Stood Still?

So we have to choose when to organize this years Astronomers Day...

Let's poll:

YOAAW project

Despite all gossips one of ours scientific projects - Yellow Observatories All Over the World- is gathering more data. (The truth is that for now its the only working project...)
Here is picture of observatory in Barcelona sent to us by Ania. (Thanks!)

Astronomers Day

If You want to help organizers in organizing Astronomers Day please vote in this poll:



NOTE: This is not official programme of this party, and some of activities may be cancelled or added.