Inflight call with an astronaut

West University of Timisoara, Romania
January 24, 2017

On 24 January 2017, teachers from Romania, Ireland and Portugal were connected by video connection with ESA astronaut, Thomas Pesquet, who were on ISS.

After a national competition, Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) and European Space Education Resource Office (ESERO) selected 5 Romanian teachers to ask Thomas questions about how space is used in everyday life and how the many applications from space research have changed the way we live.

My question was 'What kind of research are you conducting during the Proxima mission that could contribute to new technologies to be used in our daily life?' (from 3:23 minute to 4:40 minute in this video).

World Space Week: Astronomy and Space

October 5-th, 2016
"Dacia" School, Oradea City, Romania

About astronomy and space with my students from 6C grade.

World Space Week: Artificial satellites

October 5-th, 2016
"Dacia" School, Oradea City, Romania

ISS, Sputnik ...
Students from 8C grade

World Space Week: Sputnik I

October 4-th, 2016
"Dacia" School, in Oradea City, Romania

History changed on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a ball (58 cm. in diameter), weighed only 83.6 kg. and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path.
The people's lives can be change through education, hard work and perseverance. Students from 5A grades watched "October Sky", an amazing movie about these.

 

OPTICKS & InOMN: Bounce off the Moon!

International Observe the Moon Night(InOMN) is an annual worldwide public event that encourages observation, appreciation, and understanding of our Moon and its connection to NASA planetary science and exploration.

One of my pictures taken in this event, 'Bounce off the Moon'  as radio waves.

You can see all the pictures that bounced off the Moon as radio waves:

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/observe_the_moon_night/bounce-off-the-moon/

Thank you inOMN team, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA's Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute, and the Lunar and Planetary Institute. 

International Observe the Moon Night

The Children's Educational Center of Oradea Romania September 18, 2015

Just a few kids who are passionate about astronomy,a clear sky and a telescope is sufficient for an evening of astronomical observations. We observed through telescope Mare Serenitatis, Mare Tranquillitatis, Mare Crisium, Mare Fecunditatis, craters and Montes Apenninus. International Observe the Moon Night event on September 18, 2015 was Organized in Oradea, Romania by Astronomy and Space Science Club.

Autumn in Oradea

Fortress of Oradea October 2, 2015

Our city celebrates autumn each year, with a festival that lasts two weeks. The Fortress of Oradea is the proper place for exhibitions, 3D projections. The Astronomy and Space Science Club of Oradea offers Oradea's people the possibility to watch and know the constellations, different types of stars, double stars ... Unfortunately, light pollution is big in downtown, but we saw the Big Dipper, a part of Little Dipper, Cassiopeia, Polaris, Arcturus, Vega, Altair , Alcor and Mizar and even beautiful Albireo.

Partial Solar Eclipse

Location:Dacia School in Oradea, Romania 

Time: March 20, 2015

 Partial solar eclipses happen when the Moon comes between the Sun and the Earth, but they don't align in a perfectly straight line. Because of this, the Moon only partially covers the Sun's disc.
  In Oradea, Eclipse started at 10:44, with a maximum at 11:53 (local time). The end of eclipse was at 13:03. About 1000 students of Dacia School looked through telescope a part of solar disc covered by Moon.