The Almeria Astronomical Week
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The historical Almeria Astronomical Week is an established annual astronomical meeting among the public who are fond of space sciences.
About this event
The Almeria Astronomical Week
Presentation
After the last visit of Halley's Comet in 1986, Professor Teodoro Vives Soteras and Dr. Kurt Birkle believed that the Calar Alto Astronomical Observatory should be better known among the population of Almería, where this facility is placed.
This is how the Almería's "Astronomical and Cultural Association ORION", was first born with Halley's comet. And 4 years later, Professor Teodoro Vives and the legendary GIL family ( founders of ORION together with legendary also Professor Antonio Herrera Alonso ) promoted the first era of the Almería's Astronomical Week and the astronomical club as well.
1989 - 2004
Since 1989 to 2004, Prof. Vives and Orión enjoyed an Almería's astronomical week in a humble, intimate and romantic, despite its simplicity. Almeria's amateur astronomers were few, but they lived together in a fraternal atmosphere. Those were beautiful years, of vocation and shared dreams.
2004 - 2010
After his exile from Almería, Francisco Galindo Jr. joined forces in 2002 with Pedro San José so that the Basque television production company K-2000 to promote the second historic stage of the Almería Astronomical Week. This new era of the astronomical week in Almería guaranteed the presence of Nobel laureates and astronauts in Almería every year, thanks to their friendship with Professor John E. Beckman.
2010 - 2017
The transfer of the production company K-2000 from the Basque regional government and the BBK bank to its new owner MEDIAPRO, together with the retirement of its CEO, Ricardo González Peón, forced between 2010 and 2017 a difficult stage for the Almería Astronomical Week. On January 1, 2010, Dr. Kurt Birkle, German astronomer and co-director of the Calar Alto observatory from 1973 to 1998, died in a car accident. But Professor Teodoro Vives Soteras, Spanish co-director of the CAHA also died on February 11, 2014, two months before the death of Francisco Galindo Jr.'s mother. Those were sad and delicate moments. The astronomical week of Almería had lost its founders and sponsors in just 4 years.
2017 - 2022
Between 2014 and 2017 the astronomical week of Almería was in serious risk of disappearing. But Pedro San José's love for Almería managed to precariously save them since 2017 on forward during an uncertain time.
