PSC Celebrates the First Lunar Landing
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Alexandria—The BA Planetarium Science Center (PSC) will participate in the celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the first lunar landing by Apollo 11, which took place on 20 July 1969.
The Malta International Year of Astronomy (IYA) committee will celebrate the anniversary by coordinating a global project, where countries from all over the world will participate in imaging the moon. Each individual country will image its portion of the moon on the night of a full moon on 9 May or 7 June 2009. These images will be sent to Apolen observatory in Malta, where a collage of all the images of the moon will be produced.
The PSC will be taking section six of the moon, which will be imaged by Mr. Aymen Ibrahim, Resident Astronomer at the PSC.
The final collage of images will then be distributed around the world as collaboration between different countries of the world in the spirit of “The Moon for all Mankind", combined with the ideals of the IYA 2009, under the theme of "Bringing Astronomy to the People", in order to increase their interest in science in general.