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27 (Sunday) - 30 (Wednesday) March 2005


I attended the annual meeting (spring) of the Astronomical Society of Japan held at Meisei University, Hino, Tokyo.

24 March 2005 (Thursday)


Staff of Planning and Evaluation Division, Science and Technology Policy Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology visited the astronomical observatory of Faculty of Education, on their tour of inspecting facilities of Wakayama University.

19 March 2005 (Saturday)


I attended the final lecture of Dr. Ryuko Hirata, Department of Astronomy, Kyoto University, and farewell party of Dr. Hirata and Ms. Natsuko Ikemura, the librarian.

7 March 2005 (Monday)


Crea Symposium, `Science Communication, Who, Where, and How' was held. I gave a talk about collaboration of Wakayama University and local public astronomical observatories for student education. The web site of the symposium is here[J].

6 March 2005 (Sunday)


Graduate and Master theses presentation of Earth Sciences group was held. Five graduate theses and two master theses were presented from the astronomy seminar group.

23 February 2005 (Wednesday)


I attended planetarium worker's training meeting by Japan Planetarium Society, held at Kawabe Cosmic Park, Kawabe, Wakayama. I talked as a panelist on a title of Collaboration with Planetarium.

22 February 2005 (Tuesday)


I attended Subaru User's Meeting 2004, held at National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo.

21 February 2005 (Monday)


80th Wakaten meeting was held. See Wakaten web site[J].

12 February 2005 (Saturday)


I attended presentation of graduate theses of Science course, Teacher's training course, Nara University of Education.

7 February 2005 (Monday)


I visited office of Special Coordination Funds for Promoting Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), at Ichigaya, Tokyo. I attended an international colloquium, `Seamless Culture through Science Communication' organized by National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP) held at Shinagawa, Tokyo. The banquet room was beautiful (pic by a cell camera).

28 January 2005 (Friday)


I atteded 2nd Advisory Committee Meeting of Optical and Infrared Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.

24 January 2005 (Monday)


79th Wakaten meeting was held. See Wakaten web site[J].

19 (Wednesday) - 21 (Friday) January 2005


I attended a workshop, Formation and Evolution of Galaxies with Subaru, from Galaxy Zoo to Galaxy Museum, held at National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Mitaka, Tokyo.

9 January 2005 (Sunday)


I attended a symposium, `Problems on Astronomy Education in Senior High School' and `Workshop of Educational Utilizing of FITS Images' held at National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Mitaka, Tokyo.

8 January 2005 (Saturday)


I gave a lecture of `World of Galaxies' at Toin Senior High School, Wakayama, as the special lecture of super science high school (SSH).

1 October (Friday) - 31 December (Friday) 2004


I am taking my paternity leave. We have our baby on 8 October.

14 September 2004 (Tuesday)


I visited attached junior high school of Wakayama University, where Miki-kun is now doing his teacher training.

13 September 2004 (Monday)


75th Wakaten meeting was held. See Wakaten web site[J].

30 August 2004 (Monday)


I attended 1st general meeting of the consortium, project of practical application of public astronomical observatory network (PAONET) authentic materials, held at National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Mitaka, Tokyo.

23 (Monday) - 25 (Wednesday) August 2004


I attended Optical Infrared User's Meeting and GOPIRA (Group of Optical and Infrared Astronomers) Symposium held at National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Mitaka, Tokyo.

9 (Monday) - 12 (Thursday) August 2004


I gave lecture for graduate students at Osaka University of Education.

6 (Friday) - 7 (Saturday) August 2004


I gave lecture for Wakayama University students. Using the astronomical image processing software of `Makalii', they made color-magnitude (V-R vs V) diagram of an open star cluster M 67 (students working in the computer room, Yaji-san also tried).

5 August 2004 (Thursday)


I gave lecture at Madoka Hall, the Kishiwada City Hall, for Science Partnership Program for Kishiwada city school teachers. Yunoki-san of Kishiwada City Science and Technology Education Center, Shibahara-san and Yamaguchi-kun of juniors of Wakayama University, and Yaji-san of Wakayama University/National Astronomical Observatory of Japan helped the lecture.


We showed slides made of PAONET (Public Astronomical Observatory NETwork) material in the planetarium dome (Shibahara-san explaining, (Yamaguchi-kun explaining). Then, lecture attendance made a small telescope (making the telescope), (Yaji-san checking the telescope).

26 (Monday) - 29 (Thursday) July 2004


I gave lecture for graduate students at Nara University of Education; Astronomy and Planetary Science.

12 July 2004 (Monday)


74th Wakaten meeting was held. See Wakaten web site[J].

26 June 2004 (Saturday)


As an activity of Astronomy group of the Caravan Class, about 10 students visited the Company Dormitory at Wakayama of Japan Air Lines and opened the astronomy class, planetarium, slide show, picture-story show, and handicraft of constellation, for children group of ages of from 0 to 12. See pictures: astronomy education page[J].

17 (Thursday) - 18 (Friday) June 2004


I attended Kiso Symposium 2004 held at a public hall of Kiso-Fukushima. I talked with a title of `Study of Star Formation History of Dwarf Irregular Galaxies'.

16 June 2004 (Wednesday)


I attended 9th `Tenmou' (astronomy-internet collaboration) meeting held at Center for Information Science, Wakayama University. Main topics were remote teaching using internet and robotic telescopes.

15 June 2004 (Tuesday)


Nakamura Tsuko-san of National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Suzuki Kazuyoshi-san of National Science Museum visited Wakayama University, and proposed local studies based on historical materials.

14 June 2004 (Monday)


73rd Wakaten meeting was held. See Wakaten web site[J].

8 June 2004 (Tuesday)


The Venus transits the Sun. But it was rainy and cloudy all day at Wakayama University, so we did not observe the transit. The SSH class 6 students of Toin Senior High School visited us with teachers, Shimizu Hiroyuki-san and Shimada Hirofumi-san (from 14:30 to 16:00). We see the web cast images by LIVE! VENUS 2004. The students learned about the telescope in the dome. They will try an exercise of calculating 1 AU from the images.

1 June 2004 (Tuesday)


I visited Toin Senior High School, Wakayama, and proposed a science education project of calculating a distance of 1 astronomical unit that would be made using the Venus transit images on 8 June. Shimizu Hiroyuki, a science teacher, has an SSH (super science high school) class of 6 2nd-grade students, and they will join this project.

27 May 2004 (Thursday)


I attended the annual meeting of PAONET (Public Astronomical Observatories NETwork) held at National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.

17 May 2004 (Monday)


72nd Wakaten meeting was held. See Wakaten web site[J].

27 April 2004 (Tuesday)


160 students of Attached Junior High School visited Wakayama University on their way to their training camp. They enjoyed visiting astronomical observatory. Due to bad weather, observation of the Sun could not made. Kuno-kun and Takenaka-kun guided. See pictures at Astronomy Seminar page[J].

12 April 2004 (Monday)


71st Wakaten meeting was held. See Wakaten web site[J].

10 (Saturday) - 11 (Sunday) April 2004


I stayed at a hotel, Hayashi, for freshperson's training camp.

1 (Thursday) - 3 (Saturday) April 2004


The Astronomy Observation Class was held at Okayama Astrophysical Observatory, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. I worked as one of instructors. Four students of Okayama University and four students of Hiroshima University joined the class.


The observatory area was full of cherry blossoms (pic). The main telescope, 188-cm reflector, was painted in blue (pic). Kawabata Kohji-san of Hiroshima University gave lecture for the most part. They reduced images of a planetary nebula, NGC 2392, and discussed its kinematical structures (pic, pic).