Vision
In accordance with the goals of the International Year of Astronomy 2009, the Starpeace project has these aims:
- To encourage astronomy groups in one country to cooperate with those in neighboring countries, creating a network of active astronomy groups in that region.
- To give particular encouragement to the growth and survival of astronomy groups in developing countries.
- To use these star parties as a means of increasing scientific awareness and to improve the knowledge of astronomy through talks and photographs.
- To make a contribution towards regional peace and harmony.
- To provide an opportunity for people to use astronomical equipment that they might not otherwise have encountered or experienced at first hand.
Read more about this topic: Star Peace Project
Famous quotes containing the word vision:
“Our star was brighter perhaps when it had water in it.
Now there is no question even of that, but only
Of holding on to the hard earth so as not to get thrown off,
With an occasional dream, a vision ...”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“And taken by light in her arms at long and dear last
I may without fail
Suffer the first vision that set fire to the stars.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency—the belief that the here and now is all there is.”
—Allan Bloom (1930–1992)