The international Astronomical Youth Camp (IAYC)

IAYC 2008, July 20th - August 9th
44th International Astronomical Youth Camp
Sayda, Germany

The International Astronomical Youth Camp (IAYC) 2008 will take place
in the small town of Sayda, Germany (2.300 inhabitants). Sayda lies in
the federal state of Saxony with the nearest large towns in the
surrounding being Chemnitz (40 km) and Dresden (45 km) in Saxony and
Prague (100 km) in the Czech Republic.

The IAYC is an international youth camp with participants from about
20 different countries. As a participant you work for three weeks in
one of the 8 working groups - together with other young people - on
astronomical projects. The projects vary from night-time observations
to theoretical problems, depending on your own interests. The working
groups will be led by young scientists from the IAYC team. In IAYC
2008 we offer working groups which study a wide variety of topics:
Ancient Astronomy, Astrogenises, Basics of Astronomy, Compact Objects,
Extragalactic astrophysics, Observational Astronomy, Radio Astronomy
and Imaging processing.

Apart from the astronomical program, there are many non-astronomical
activities such as group games, sport events, singing evenings,
hiking tours and an excursion. Since it is an international camp, the
camp language is English. You should be able and willing to speak
English throughout the camp although it is not necessary to speak
English fluently.

The accommodation for the IAYC 2008 will be a very pleasant youth
hostel called "Jugendherberge Sayda". The house offers plenty of space
for all participants and working groups. At walking distance there is
a field which can be used for observations. The remote location of the
house promises excellent observing conditions. There will also be a
darkroom available to the people who want to develop astropictures.

Anyone from 16 to 24 years old and able to communicate in English may
participate in the IAYC 2008. The fee for accommodation, full board
and the whole program, including the excursion, will be 550 Euro. For
interested persons who are in the situation of not being able to pay
the camp fee themselves, a limited number of grants is available.

More information about IAYC 2008 is available on our website
http://www.iayc.org/next_camp.php
where you can also download

If you have any questions, wish to be notified when
more information becomes available or want to order - free of charge -
an information booklet including an application form, please contact:

Ana Brajovic

On Feb 7, 9:28*pm, IAYC wrote:
IAYC 2008, July 20th - August 9th
44th International Astronomical Youth Camp
Sayda, Germany

The International Astronomical Youth Camp (IAYC) 2008 will take place
in the small town of Sayda, Germany (2.300 inhabitants). Sayda lies in
the federal state of Saxony with the nearest large towns in the
surrounding being Chemnitz (40 km) and Dresden (45 km) in Saxony and
Prague (100 km) in the Czech Republic.

The IAYC is an international youth camp with participants from about
20 different countries. As a participant you work for three weeks in
one of the 8 working groups - together with other young people - on
astronomical projects. The projects vary from night-time observations
to theoretical problems, depending on your own interests. The working
groups will be led by young scientists from the IAYC team. In IAYC
2008 we offer working groups which study a wide variety of topics:
Ancient Astronomy, Astrogenises, Basics of Astronomy, Compact Objects,
Extragalactic astrophysics, Observational Astronomy, Radio Astronomy
and Imaging processing.

Apart from the astronomical program, there are many non-astronomical
activities such as group games, sport events, singing evenings,
hiking tours and an excursion. Since it is an international camp, the
camp language is English. You should be able and willing to speak
English throughout the camp although it is not necessary to speak
English fluently.

The accommodation for the IAYC 2008 will be a very pleasant youth
hostel called "Jugendherberge Sayda". The house offers plenty of space
for all participants and working groups. At walking distance there is
a field which can be used for observations. The remote location of the
house promises excellent observing conditions. There will also be a
darkroom available to the people who want to develop astropictures.

Anyone from 16 to 24 years old and able to communicate in English may
participate in the IAYC 2008. The fee for accommodation, full board
and the whole program, including the excursion, will be 550 Euro. For
interested persons who are in the situation of not being able to pay
the camp fee themselves, a limited number of grants is available.

More information about IAYC 2008 is available on our website
http://www.iayc.org/next_camp.php
where you can also download

If you have any questions, wish to be notified when
more information becomes available or want to order - free of charge -
an information booklet including an application form, please contact:

Ana Brajovic


Looks like an empiricist indoctrination exercise to me.

"Build your own quadrant, cross-staff and a sundial. You will see how
bloody precise those ancient people must have been to obtain their
results! For less skilled and more theoretically oriented; why not try
to discover the mathematics of sundials? You will have a chance
explore the so called analemma and learn about the equation of time."

http://www.iayc.org/next_camp.php

An analemma is a late 17th century fudge which introduced solar
declination into the Equation of Time or rather variable axial tilt to
explain variations in the natural noon cycles.The actual cause of the
variations in the natural noon cycles,observed from antiquity is a
combination of two seperate motions which has nothing whatsoever to do
with any perceived axial/equatorial tilt variation,specifically axial
rotation and orbital orientation change that you can infer from the
fortunate circumstances supplied by Uranus -

http://asymptotia.com/wp-images/2007...anus_rings.jpg

Go ahead and explain the mathematics of a sundial in this forum seeing
that it will be taught to kids at the camp.The upshot is that the
geometry is the key to understanding why a person sees no variations
in daylight/darkness at the Equator throughout the year yet
experiences variations in the length of the natural noon cycle (hence
the Equation of Time) just like everyone North and South of the
Equator or at least where the Sun is visible at noon.

On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:28:46 +0100, IAYC wrote:

IAYC 2008, July 20th - August 9th
44th International Astronomical Youth Camp
Sayda, Germany

The International Astronomical Youth Camp (IAYC) 2008 will take place
in the small town of Sayda, Germany (2.300 inhabitants). Sayda lies in
the federal state of Saxony with the nearest large towns in the
surrounding being Chemnitz (40 km) and Dresden (45 km) in Saxony and
Prague (100 km) in the Czech Republic.

The IAYC is an international youth camp with participants from about
20 different countries. As a participant you work for three weeks in
one of the 8 working groups - together with other young people - on
astronomical projects. The projects vary from night-time observations
to theoretical problems, depending on your own interests. The working
groups will be led by young scientists from the IAYC team. In IAYC
2008 we offer working groups which study a wide variety of topics:
Ancient Astronomy, Astrogenises, Basics of Astronomy, Compact Objects,
Extragalactic astrophysics, Observational Astronomy, Radio Astronomy
and Imaging processing.

Apart from the astronomical program, there are many non-astronomical
activities such as group games, sport events, singing evenings,
hiking tours and an excursion. Since it is an international camp, the
camp language is English. You should be able and willing to speak
English throughout the camp although it is not necessary to speak
English fluently.

The accommodation for the IAYC 2008 will be a very pleasant youth
hostel called "Jugendherberge Sayda". The house offers plenty of space
for all participants and working groups. At walking distance there is
a field which can be used for observations. The remote location of the
house promises excellent observing conditions. There will also be a
darkroom available to the people who want to develop astropictures.

Anyone from 16 to 24 years old and able to communicate in English may
participate in the IAYC 2008. The fee for accommodation, full board
and the whole program, including the excursion, will be 550 Euro. For
interested persons who are in the situation of not being able to pay
the camp fee themselves, a limited number of grants is available.

More information about IAYC 2008 is available on our website
http://www.iayc.org/next_camp.php
where you can also download

If you have any questions, wish to be notified when
more information becomes available or want to order - free of charge -
an information booklet including an application form, please contact:

Ana Brajovic



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