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SHAO have completed a good compaign of scientific popularization

The solar eclipse of 22 July 2009 was the longest total solar eclipse during the 21st century. It lasted a maximum of 6 minutes and 39 seconds off the coast of Southeast Asia, causing tourist interest in eastern China, Japan, India and Nepal. Although it was cloudy and rainy at that very day in Shanghai and most of peoples felt so sorry that themselves couldn’t observe and witness the total solar eclipse. But Shanghai Astronomical Observatory ...[More]

Seminars

·Radiation-HD/MHD simulations of super-Eddington disks (2009-08-28)

·Earth and Planetary Exploration: GNSS, GRACE, GRAIL and Mars-GRACE (2009-08-13)

·Ground and Space based GPS atmosphere sounding:Recent resullts from GFZ (2009-08-12)

·Terrestrial Reference Frame: Status ans Prospect (2009-08-05)

·Secular vertical crustral deformation field in California and Nerada regions (2009-08-04)

·MHD Turbulence, Dynamo, and the Origin of Magnetic Fields in Galaxy Clusters (2009-07-20)

·The unified regularities of QSO emission lines and their physical origin (2009-07-14)

·Black Hole Accretion: Theory and Applications (2009-07-06)

Colloquia

·Galileo - Xu Guangqi meeting (First) October 26-30,2009 Shanghai (2009-10-26)

·Galactic center workshop 2009 (Oct.19-23,2009,Shanghai,China) (2009-10-19)

·The Fourth Meeting On Hot Subdwarf Stars And Related Objects (2009-07-20)

·New Technologies for Probing the Diversity of Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets (2009-07-19)

·The 8th Sino-German workshop (Feb.23-28,2009,Kunming,Yunnan) (2009-02-23)

·2009 International Workshop on Parallel Algorithm (2009-02-16)

SHAO was formally established in 1962 following the amalgamation of the former Xujiahui (originally spelt Zi-Ka-Wei) and Sheshan (Zỏ-Sẻ) observatories, which were founded by the French Mission Catholique in 1872 and 1900 respectively.

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