There was a Planetarium day celebration at Large Planetarium on 24 of March. This a view from Foucault pendulum tower:
The day was windy and rainy, but about 500 people (as estimated by one of Center’s employee) attended the event.
Novosibirsk Astrophysical center (“Large Planetarium”)
March 26th, 2012 by Ivan BoldyrevNovosibirsk Astrophysical Center was open today
February 8th, 2012 by Ivan Boldyrev“Astophysical” means here “related to both astronomy and physics”, not “related to astrophysics”. This an educational center with planetarium, observatory, meteo station, Foucault pendulum etc.
Observatory has 360mm Ritchey–Chrétien by Astrosib and 200mm APOLAR refractor by NPZ.
See video at Russia 1 channel.
Meeting with amateur astronomers is planned tomorrow, and I am invited too, but cannot participate because of health problems 
Upd:
New StarchartJS demo
January 15th, 2012 by Ivan BoldyrevNow you can select your location with Google Maps:
http://www.skyandme.com/dev/starchartjs/.
Selected coordinates are remembered by browser if localStorage is available.
StarchartJs going open source
December 31st, 2011 by Ivan BoldyrevHappy New Year!
As a New Year gift I’ve released sources of StarchartJs under MIT license.
Going to Sibastro-2011
September 16th, 2011 by Ivan BoldyrevWeather forecast is promising.
Bye-bye!
Sibastro 2011
August 10th, 2011 by Ivan BoldyrevThe 6th Siberian Astronomical Forum Sibastro will be held on 16-18th of September 2011.
Hooray!
Lunar eclipse of 16th of June 2011
June 16th, 2011 by Ivan BoldyrevVery sleepy after observing eclipse whole night. I tried to make some photos, by my cheap cam gave me very poor images.
I also observed two passes of ISS during the eclipse. It seems it was first time when I do planned ISS observation 
As January solar eclipse was at sunset, this eclipse was at “moonset”.
I was observing with binocular and telescope sitting on a sofa on parent’s balcony
New old book
April 13th, 2011 by Ivan BoldyrevYesterday I received copy of “Observing Earth Satellites” by Desmond King-Hele (1982). It was advised on SeeSat list, and I found a copy affordable for me.
Yesterday event was successful. Andrey’s 75mm refractor displayed nice images of Sun with spots, and my 130mm reflector displayed the rising Moon. The Moon was low-contrast on daylight sky, but children enjoyed it anyway (though some were unable to spot it, but many managed to see lunar maria).
Happy Cosmonautics Day and Yuri’s Night!
April 12th, 2011 by Ivan BoldyrevToday my fellow Andrey and I will bring out telescopes to show Sun and Moon to schoolchildren at city museum.
ESO’s Hidden Tresures Contest: congratulations to Igor Chekalin, Russia
January 14th, 2011 by Ivan BoldyrevMy congratulations to Russian astrophotographer Igor Chekalin, winner of ESO’s Hidden Treasures 2010 competition. You may see his artwork.
Igor visited SibAstro event twice and conducted workshops on astrophotography (unfortunately, I haven’t managed to visit them). But I know him personally anyway, as I bought his optical finder for my dob and we met on SibAstro 2009
