Venus Transit in Italy

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Venus Transit in Italy
UAI Unione Astrofili Italiani (Italian Astro
Amateur Union)
Contribution to VT2004 Amateur Meeting Brandys
nad Labem may, 7-9 2004
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• UAI Unione Astrofili Italiani
• (Italian Astro Amateur Union)
• UAI members are about 2000
• Over 200 local associations and
• 100 observatories are in activity in Italy

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UAI on-line www.uai.it UAI website in made up of
several different sections, representative of
amateur astronomers fields of activity
RESEARCH GROUPS

• Asteroids
• Astroculture (History, Arts)
• Deep Sky
• Comets
• Moon
• Meteors
• Occultations
• Planets
• Sundials
• Sun
• Variable Stars

COMMISSIONS

• Didactic activities
• Popularization of Astronomy
• Public Relations-Press releases
• Light Pollution
• Observatories Network

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All UAI members receive
Astronomical Almanac
Astronomia UAI Magazine
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VENUS TRANSIT
"Venus eclipses the Sun" Public Observations in
Italy
UAI will organize public activities related to
the observation of Venus transit  through a
network of observation sites all over
Italy. Every year UAI is the promoter of several
national events as reported on web
pages http//divulgazione.uai.it/  
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The event will be named "Venere
eclissa il Sole" ("Venus eclipses the
Sun") UAI will cooperate as well in activities
concerning information through web pages and
press releases. Il Cielo in diretta"
("Sky-live") is aimed to permit the observation
of the transit on the web, through webcams
connected to telescopes. A special webpage
dedicated to the event will be early on
line http//www.venere2004.it Some more
informations are avaiable here http//divulgazio
ne.uai.it/venus/venus2004.htm this webpage is
mainly dedicated to the collaboration with ESO
and UAI partnership to Venus Transit 2004
project.
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A special information service is
Astroiniziative Please, visit our
webpage http//divulgazione.uai.it/ and clic
on  Astroiniziative You will find a map of
Italy. Clic a Region with your mouse. It will
be possible to read the list of public
observation in the choosen Region!
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UAI will cooperate as well with the italian node
of Venus Transit 2004 project INAF (Istituto
Nazionale di AstroFisica National Institute of
AstroPhysics). INAF website dedicated to Venus
Transit is www.transitodivenere.it
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• Conclusions
• UAI wishes everybody the clearest sky on june, 8
• And lets hope the VT2004 meeting will be the
  first of many more collaborations among european
  amateur astronomers.
• A few years ago UAI started a collaboration with
  french organization AFA (Association Francaise
  dAstronomie.
• So the original Nuits des Etoiles (public
  observations of Perseid meteor shower) became an
  international event in Italy, Le Notti delle
  Stelle.

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In 2003 edition UAI proposed the following logo,
aiming to an European Night of the Stars.
Lets hope all the participants to VT2004 meeting
will join next Night of the Stars !