Cooperation between NOMMO ASTRONOMIA (Gabon) and Freundeskreis Astronomie Wilhelmsdorp (Germany)
Libreville (Gabon) and Wilhelmsdorf (Germany) mutually share an optimal positiononing for a Moon parallax exercise. Recently, Freundeskreis Astronomie Wilhelmsdorp (FAW) and NOMMO ASTRONOMIA decided to co-operate on a low cost project for determining the Moon parallax using appropriate images of the Moon taken at the same date and same time from both locations. A full description of the project in German language by our German counterparts is given at www.sternwarte-wilhelmsdorf.de.
This is a first step towards a more ambitious plan of collaboration for which the International Year of Astronomy 2009 will be an additional platform of exchange. And of course, Wilhelmsdorp is not the only place on Earth sharing such optimal positionining with respect to Libreville for a Moon parallax exercise. Your present location may be suitable too. What about using such comparative advantage to share some basic expertise and certainly more.