Perempuan dan sains bisa jadi memang bukan hal asing bagi kehidupan masa kini. Tapi mungkin di suatu tempat tak terduga, masih ada yang mengernyitkan dahi dan balik bertanya, “apa? ilmuwan perempuan?”. Read More

This poster paper made for  Stars of Asia meeting in Japan last May. Read More

Hari senin, 26 Januari bertepatan dengan Imlek, Indonesia akan dilintasi Gerhana Matahari Cincin. Untuk event ini langitselatan akan melakukan perjalanan ke Lampung. Di sana kami akan mengadakan studium general di LIA dan UNILA. Selain itu kami juga akan melakukan perkenalan astronomi ke area yang remote di dusun Trimukti (jangan tanya dimana.. gue aja ga tau). Read More

Semua dimulai di akhir tahun 2007 di Athena, sebuah kota tua yang penuh dengan sejarah dunia. Dalam pertemuan Communicating Astronomy with the Public, saya mengajukan diri untuk bekerja dalam task group cosmic diary cornerstone project, yang merupakan bagian dari International Year of Astronomy 2009.

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Dua tahun lalu, saya turut mengisi The International Conference on Mathematics and Natural Sciences (ICMNS) 2006 dengan mengajukan poster paper yang merupakan hasil awal dari riset saya untuk pemodelan sistem keplanetan menggunakan ACRETE milik Dole yang dibuat pada tahun 1970. Pemodelan tersebut dilandaskan pada model akresi sebagai model pembentukan dari Tata Surya. Read More

Three, two, one………….hurray the rocket launch.

Those are happy voices from visitors in Water Rocket session at Science Aeronautics Festivals last week in  Indonesia Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN), Haurngombong Village, Tanjung, Sari, Sumedang. LAPAN hold thie festival to participate in World Space Week. In this festival LAPAN also colaborate with langitselatan and Universe Awareness for young children (UNAWE). Read More

In the 2nd International Olympiads on Astronomy and Astrophysics Exhibition, almost all astronomy community in Indonesia joint this event. Here, you can met Jakarta Amateur Astronomy Club, langitselatan, Astronomy Students Association (ITB), Cakrawala (Universitas Pendidikan),Kastro Sirius 89 (SMA 89), FOSCA (Jakarta Forum of student science club), Madania, Astronomy Indonesia mailing list community, and UNAWE Indonesia.

Each community exhibit about themselves and interact with visitors. Among them, UNAWE Indonesia is one of the favorite playground corner for children. Here, children could play many games such as quart, astronomy puzzles, coloring astronomy images, astronomy rubik and playing the giant snakes and ladders board. They also take the A4 snakes and ladders boards as a gift. Not just that, Prof. Ron Ekers, the former IAU Presidents was also played the giant board game too. Read More

In the 2nd International Olympiads on Astronomy and Astrophysics last August (25-27 August 2008), Langitselatan also take part on the event. We get one stand about 3×3 m just right in the corner. Langitselatan present pictures and stuff to public. But not just that, the main show in our stand is the display of langitselatan.com, stellarium, short animation and movies. The stuff in our display table are pins, bookmarks, posters, small telescope, galileoscope from Japan (this is not for sell) and t-shirts. Read More

Astronomy popularisation is really important for the development of basic sciences in Indonesia. The keyplayers here is not just astronomy department or Bosscha observatory but also amateur astronomy clubs and communities. In Indonesia, we have several active astronomy clubs and communities. In Indonesia, we have several active astronomy clubs and communities. Let start with HIMASTRON (Himpunan Mahasiswa Astronomi) an Astronomy Students Association of the Department of Astronomy – ITB, Bandung. This society acts as a partner of the department of Astronomy-ITB in astronomy popularisation and education in Indonesia through various activities such as public lectures, seminars, star parties, seminars, astrocamps, talk shows etc. Read More

Next year in International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009), Indonesia will take part in this event. Many plans has been made and several of them are parts of IYA2009 cornerstone project. Several preparations have been made since mid 2008 such as astroarcheology seminar on May 15th, 2008. The second seminars of Astronomy in Indonesian Culture held in 2nd Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiads Exhibitions on 25th August 2008 and the other one will be held next year during IYA2009. Read More