The main reason of participating at the CAP2010 conference in Cape Town, besides attending the “Astronomy101 school”, was to deliver a paper entitled “World Space Week and Yuri’s Night as means of communicating astronomy with the Romanian public”:

“This paper will present two yearly opportunities – Yuri’s Night April 12th) and the World Space Week (October 4-12th) and the ways they are used by the Romanian astronomical community as means of communicatng astronomy with the omanian public, especially with the youth”

Photos courtesy of Jim Volp and psychohistorian.org

World Space Week and Yuri’s Night as Means of Communicating Astronomy with the Romanian Public