ASTRO-STEM

IDÇAL YEARLY WORKS

-October-

Poster work and competition

Introduce planets

We introduced the planet mars.

CodeWeek

Sky Atlas

Webinar - DR. SELÇUK TOPAL

-November-

Team Star Board

Constellation Binoculars

Webinar - Dr. TANSU DAYLAN

-December-

Astrolabe Make (Usturlab)

Famous Astronomers

Who is HYPATIA ?

Hypatia was a Hellenistic Neoplanist philosopher,

astronomer and mathematician. She lived in

Alexanderia.

The Alexanderian School was renowned at the time for its

philosophy, and Alexandria was regarded as second only to

Athens as the philosophical capital of the Greco-Roman world.

History of Astronomy

Definition of astronomy:

Astronomy is the study of the sun, moon, stars, planets, comets, gas, galaxies, gas dust and other non Earthly bodies and phenomena...

Historically, astronomy has focused on observations of heavenly bodies 1473-1543. Astronomer and father he heliocentric(Sun-centered) theory of the Solar System, commonly known as the Copernican system. Considered today to be the father of modern astronomy, Nicolaus Copernicus was born on Februrary 19,1473 in Torun, Poland.

The Ancient Greeks developed astronomy, which they treated as a branch of mathematics, to a highly sophisticated level. The first geometrical, three-dimensional models to explain the apparent motion of the planets were developed in the 4th century BC by Eudoxus of Cnidus anda Callippus of Cyzicus.

One of the ways astronomers have long changed the field is by collecting more light, allowing them to peer deeper into space. This has required tlescopes with greater light gathering power and subsequently, larger diameters.

So astronomy may be reaching the maimum size of telescope that can reasonably be built.