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IYA-2009 in the Sahara
Reaching the Deep South

In addition, Sirius travelled widely across Algeria to participate and dynamise the other astronomy events held in the context of IYA09, in Ain Beida, Algiers, Béjaia, Annaba, Oum El-Bouaghi, Skikda, El-Khroub… It also organized astronomy events in the Sahara desert region in the deep South, most notably at Djemaa (Wilaya of El Oued) , Guerara (Wilaya of Ghardaia) and Ouled Djellal (Wilaya of Biskra).

- The Mission to the Scout section at Djemaa
- The Program in the Mzab Valley: The Guerrara connection
- Astro Training Session at Ouled Djellal

The Sirius Mission to the Scout section at Djemaa
Leaving the initiative to the Youth

Invited by the Scout section of the city of Djemaa (In the El-Oued Prefectorat - Wilaya), Sirius sent a team of 11 young and active members (Here on the picture + the picture taker), a mixture of University and High School students, some with a long experience in Amateur astronomy.


Zakaria here explaining the working of his program Galaxy that he conceived as a flash application.

Lecturing, manipulating, interacting... all this while living in a scout way.

Explaining Google Earth and its many uses.

Doing some scouting in the palmgrove and the surrounding desert.


Taking part in some collective scout activities

Akram and Abdel-Jalil in the middle of the group.

The farewell

Zakaria, one of the younger member of the team, meditating on his first experience in the Sahara between two posters of IYA 2009, one in Arabic, and the other one in English.

Program in the Mzab Valley:
The Guerrara connection



Welcomed by the cultural Association Angham El-Hayat.

Here in front of the new private cultural and vocational Institut.

And here inside

Giving some astro talks

Putting up a quick astronomy exposition for the benefit of the local inhabitants.


The Sirius president giving a lecture to a large audience on Astronomy as science and as a cultural activity. At right is Smail Beyoud a past Sirius president who is from the region.

Astro Training Session at Ouled Djellal - Biskra
 
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