Outreach and educational activities

The model of the Solar System at the Loiano Observatory: the Sun and the inner planets.

People involved at OAB:

• Scientific staff: S. Bardelli, R. Bedogni, A. Cappi, P. Ciliegi, G. Clementini, F. Delpino, F. Fusi Pecci, B. Lanzoni, G. Parmeggiani, P. Ranalli, V. Zitelli, E. Zucca.

• Technical staff: S. Bernabei, I. Bruni, A. De Blasi, R. Di Luca, O. Diodato, R. Gualandi, C. Pavan.

The OAB is increasingly involved in outreach and educational activities through exhibitions, educational courses, workshops and seminars. Many of these activities, due to the growth of public interest in astronomy and astrophysics, have led to a stable partnership between the OAB, the Astronomy Department of the University of Bologna (AD), the Institute of Radio Astronomy (IRA) and the amateur astronomers of Bologna (Associazione Astrofili Bolognesi, hereafter AAB) and S. Giovanni in Persiceto (Astrofili Persicetani, hereafter AP).

The outreach activities during 2003 were:

• Col Favore del Buio;
• Estate Astronomica Bolognese;
• Con il laser tra le stelle;
• Premio Guido Horn d'Arturo.

The educational activities in the same period were:

• Usciamo a vedere le stelle;
• Parco delle stelle;
• Conferenze della Specola;

In November the important workshop Stelle di carta was also held (see Section 12).