Sidewalk Astronomy and Star Party Awards
The 100 Hours of Astronomy Task Group, with support from our sponsors Explore Scientific and Celestron, are pleased to announce the following award categories for all registered 100 Hours of Astronomy Sidewalk Astronomy and Star Party events taking place during 100 Hours of Astronomy.
Only events registered on the 100 Hours of Astronomy web site are eligible. Submit as many events as you like for these awards by first completing an Online Event Report of your event, followed by an Award Applicaton.
Submitting your Award Applications
The Event Report can be reached from a link on your registered event details window. To find your event click here and search under 'Country' or 'Event'. Full instructions on how to file an event report can be found here
Rules and application Instructions can be downloaded here
Rules of Entry
- Events must be registered to be eligible for awards. Events can be registered at here even if they were not registered before the event.
- An event report must be completed to be eligible for awards. This is done by clicking the link on your registered event details page. You must be logged in to see this link and to complete the event report.
- All events taking place from 2 to 5 April, 2009 are eligible for awards. Events taking place on other dates will be considered for awards at the discretion of the judges.
- Events can be submitted for multiple awards. Submit a separate and complete application form for each award.
- Each category will have an overall winner and honourable mentions.
- The judges' decisions are final; no discussion will be entered into.
- There will be no substitutions of prizes except as necessary, at the discretion of the judges, due to national or international law, or because of shipping requirements.
- Competition closes May 12, 2009
Award Cateorgies
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Award One: Largest number of registered events held by a single astronomy group, club or society.
Award One Application
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Description: This award will be given to the organised group, club, society or team with the largest number of registered sidewalk astronomy and/or starparty events held in their town, city or suburb over the 100HA celebration period of 2 to 5 April, 2009
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Award Two: Largest single registered 100 Hours of Astronomy event.
Award Two Application
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Description: This award will be given to the single registered sidewalk/starparty astronomy event held during the 100HA celebration period of 2 to 5 April, 2009 with the largest public attendance.
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Award Three: Community outreach award.
Award Three Application
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Description: This award is for the individual, club, group, team or society that reaches the highest percentage of people in their geographic area.
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Award Four: Most innovative 100 Hours of Astronomy event.
Award Four Application
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Description: This award will be given to the most innovative registered sidewalk astronomy or starparty event held over the 100HA celebration period of 2 to 5 April, 2009. |
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Awards Five: Most complete astronomy club, group, or society member participation.
Award Five Application
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Description: This award will be given to the club, group, society or team, who has the highest percentage of their members involved in their registered sidewalk astronomy 100HA events held between the 2 and 5 April, 2009
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Award Six: Most publicised 100 Hour of Astronomy registered event.
Award Six Application
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Description: This award will be given to the group with the best publicised registered 100HA event. To qualify, copies of newspaper articles, video clips of television coverage or other media materials will be required and must accompany the application form. |
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Award Seven: 100 Hours of Astronomy youth participation award.
Award Seven Application
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Description: This award will be given to the youth club or individual under the age of 20 who organized several events and whose actions directly resulted in making the 100 Hours a success in their community.
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Award Eight: Outstanding Individual within a registered 100 Hours of Astronomy event.
Award Eight Application
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Description: This award will be given to an individual who showed outstanding initiative in organizing and holding events during 100 Hours of Astronomy. Multiple events that covered a wide range of astronomy activities (lectures, observing, solar) and collectively reached a large number of people will be eligible. A combination of individual and club events will be accepted. |
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MAJOR PRIZE: The David H.Levy Comet Hunter Special Edition Telescope Optical Tube Assembly personally signed by David Levy, is our major prize for registered 100HA Star Party and Sidewalk Astronomy events. Called the David H. Levy Comet Hunter™, the instrument is a rich field telescope (RFT), capable of showing faint objects over a wide field of view (generally two degrees or more). Comet hunters like Levy use RFTs to visually sweep the sky for comets, but this type of telescope is also preferred for observing all types of faint, deep sky objects such as nebulae and galaxies. The Comet Hunter comes standard with a two-inch, 30mm focal length eyepiece with a wide 70° apparent field. This eyepiece combined with the short focal length of the telescope produce an amazing 2.86 ° true field of view with a 6.2mm exit pupil. Retail USD $1500.00
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Skycout Personal Planetarium - Identifies celestial objects with the click of a button. Locates over 50,000 stars, planets and constellations from built-in celestial database and provides scientific information for each object. Also provides comprehensive text and audio descriptions providing history, mythology and other entertaining information for the most popular objects. Contains a customized, Night Sky list of the 20 best objects to view for your exact date, time and location anywhere in the world and much more. Retail USD $199.00
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