As Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, our only link was a satellite dish in rural Australia with a few bugs (and a few hundred sheep).🐑 We watched ‘The Dish’ (2000) at the Old Observatory in Leiden on March 10th at 19:30🌑🌒🌓🌔. Although the movie featured less sheep than we had thought, we can highly recommend…
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On the 3rd of March, the scientific director of the Hortus Botanicus Leiden personally gave Kaiser members a tour through the oldest botanical garden of the Netherlands. We would like to thank Paul Kessler once again for all the details you gave about the plants and Hortus itself. It was a very fun tour!
Dear Kaiser members, On the 1st of March, Kaiser turned 32 years old!🎊🥳 To celebrate, we had Kaiser cake at the STRW coffee hour on the morning of the 26th of February, and the Dies Borrel in the evening. Thank you to all who came to celebrate with us! <3
💫Kaiser x Big Dipper Crossover Episode!💫 On February 21st, teams of BSc, MSc, PhDs, Postdocs, Professors and more fought for their honor in a thrilling pubquiz! Harshit was our host, and he had 20 challenging questions ready for us based on constellations. In the end, only one team could be victorious, but all teams put…
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Just imagine this: it’s 2125, and you wake up in your self-sustaining Martian habitat with fresh oxygen and plants growing in your pop-up greenhouse. All systems are good to go, so you put on your EVA suit and head outside👩🚀. You have mastered your way across all the rocks and ridges by now and head…
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With rain coming down, the Observity Committee turned the Observing Night into a Non-Observing Night on February 11th! We played card/board games, watched Wall-E and EVE falling in love and had a look at some of the telescopes at the Old Observatory 🙂
On the 3rd of February, we had the second Astroborrel of the year in the Fusie! Next to drinks, snacks and much ‘gezelligheid’, the Spring Lectures Committee also announced their theme during the night🤩 Check out their socials to find out more about the upcoming Spring Lectures 🙂
On January 15th, we had a delightful Board Game Night. Benthe used up many rows of Cluedo paper for her suspect system. Who can blame her, she had it right and secured first place in the end! Many kittens also exploded, so no, we cannot say no kittens were harmed in the process :/
🎅HO HO HO🎅 What is better than Christmas and Karaoke? Yes, it is a Christmas Karaoke. But what is even better than that? Kaiser! Christmas! Karaoke!✨🎄🎤 On the 11th of December, we had a crack at singing our favorite Christmas songs and karaoke classics at the Old Observatory and had a lot of fun!
On the 11th of November, we had a 🏮Lantern Night🏮! We made lanterns for the festivity of Saint Martin’s Day (Sint Maarten)✨. Traditionally, it marked the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter, but nowadays, in some Dutch and German cities, children with lanterns will go door to door and sing a…
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