Maldives Science Society holds a stargazing session at Thaajudhdheen School

The Maldives Science Society has held a stargazing event for the students of Thaajudhdheen School’s science club. The event was held at Thaajudhdheen premises at 7 pm on 28 February 2010 and was attended by some 150 students. The event was held as a response to an eager request from Thaajudhdheen School and was organized [...]

Maldives Science Society hosts ‘STARGAZE with Astronomers Without Borders’

The Maldives Science Society has held a stargazing event especially aimed at school students titled ‘STARGAZE with Astronomers Without Borders’. The event which was held on 18 February 2010 at Lale International School in Hulhumale’ was attended by a significant number of students from 11 schools. The event was held in affiliation with Astronomers Without [...]

STARGAZE, with Astronomers without borders

The Maldives Science Society in collaboration with Lale Youth International School is organizing an astronomical event with the title STARGAZE, with Astronomers without borders. The event is planned to be held on 18 February 2010 in the paved area to the North of the Hulhumale’ Ferry Terminal. A major highlight of the event will be the donation of [...]

Announcement: MSS calls for volunteers to organize Star gazing/viewing event

Members and Supporters of MSS
Those who wish to support MSS activities will find this an opportunity to actively take part in MSS events.
We need volunteers to help us organize an event for the distribution of Galileoscopes to the schools and conduct a star gazing event for the schools and general public. The star gazing [...]

Beauty Without Borders – Hello Red Planet!

If you’ve been outside after it gets dark lately, you may have noticed the brilliant reddish star in the east. But that’s no star; it’s Mars! About every year and a half, the Earth passes Mars as they both orbit the Sun, very much like how a faster racing car on the inside track laps [...]

Allais Effect and the Iasoberg Model – A presentation on the eclipse experiment

A presentation given on what the scientists were researching on during the eclipse by Ed Oberg and Prof. Hector Munera .
Edward Oberg, mechanical engineer / project manager (retired), Sydney, Australia
He is here to observe the progress of the pendulum experiments during the solar eclipse and to correlate the results with the Iasoberg Model (www.iasoberg.com), a [...]

The Maldives hosting the greatest gathering of pendulum specialists ever

The longest lasting annular solar eclipse of the millenium will occur on 15th January 2010. In fact, this will be the longest annular eclipse until the year 3043!
The Maldive Islands will receive a longer period of eclipse than any other country with over 10 minutes and 50 seconds of annularity.
During solar eclipses, there have been [...]

January 15th 2010, Solar Eclipse viewing, Maldives

DATE: Friday, 15 January 2010
TIME: 10:00 – 14:30
LOCATION:  Back of Dharubaaruge, (Usfasgandu)

The longest lasting annular solar eclipse of this millennium will occur on 15 January 2010. It will also be the longest annular eclipse until the year 3043. It is not only the longest Annular eclipse, but also the longest solar eclipse for the next ten centuries, [...]

Announcement: Ordering eclipse viewing glass

The Maldives Science Society has a limited stock of special eclipse viewing glasses which we are putting up for sale to the public at a special price of MRF 35 MRF 80. If you wish to purchase this eclipse glasses please fill the eclipse glass order form. MSS will contact you sometime this week to [...]

Ten Minutes of Perspective – The longest lasting annular solar eclipse of this millennium

The annular solar eclipse (also known as a ring-formed eclipse) occurs when only a ring of the sun can still be seen around the edge of the moon. This happens when the moon’s orbit is farther away from the Earth than average, making it appear too small to cover the sun completely.