posted 12-05-2008 05:19 AM               

• An illustrated stationery envelope with the IYA Logo is already available.

• Private mail service S...mail at Reutlingen will issue a sheetlet of 10 stamps commemorating German astronomer Johannes Kepler in late 2008/early 2009. The stamps are &euro1.43 ea.

  Contact: S-mail GmbH, Auchtertstraße 4, 72770 Reutlingen
  E-mail: info@smailgmbh.de

• An international stamp exhibition on "Kepler, Astronomy and Spaceflight" will take place at Weil der Stadt (Kepler's birthplace near Stuttgart) from 21.3.-1.5.2009.

• A philatelic presentation on "Kepler and the IYA" will be given on 7.5.2009, 14 Uhr, on Germany's national NAPOSTA stamp exhibition at Essen. Good meteorological conditions provided, solar observations with telescopes will be offered on the fairground. There will also be a guided tour at the Walter-Hohmann-Sternwarte Essen.

• A stamp commemorating Johannes Kepler will be issued during the IBRA/NAPOSTA Stamp Fair/Exhibition on 7 May 2009. The usual First Day of Issue postmarkers at Berlin and Bonn and a pictorial postmarker at Essen will be used.

• Pictorial postmarker with a mobile sales stand of the German Postal Service will be available on the same day (7 May) at Weil der Stadt, Kepler's birthplace near Stuttgart. The illustration of the postmarker will show a portrait of the astronomer and an image of the Herschel satellite.

• Stamp exhibition on astronomy from 24 to 28 September 2008 at Timmendorfer Strand on the Baltic Sea, jointly organised by the local Cultural Association and the Adult Training Institution.

• Philatelic tours:
  1. On the tracks of Johannes Kepler in Germany and Austria (Linz, Graz und Wien) and the Czech Republic (Prague)
     
  2. The Life of Galilei (in Italy: Rome, Padua and Florence)
     
  3. To the launch of the Kepler zond at Cape Canaveral.

Details on the activities mentioned afore are available from:

Dr. Eckehard Schmidt, Postfach 4616, 90025 Nuernberg, Germany
Tel. / Fax 0911-4720978
eMail: info@wissenschaftsreisen.de

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Juergen P Esders
Berlin, Germany

posted 01-31-2009 08:30 AM               

1 stamp at 1.30 Swiss Francs, showing a supernova.

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Jürgen P Esders
Berlin, Germany

International Director (Europe), Space Unit
Vice President, Weltraum Philatelie e. V.

posted 02-07-2009 04:42 PM               

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Jürgen P Esders
Berlin, Germany

posted 02-08-2009 07:29 AM               

• 19.01.2009 Greenland - 2 stamps (6.25 & 8.- DKK)
  
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• 02.03.2009 Liechtenstein - 1 stamps (1.30 CHF)
  
• 25.03.2009 Denmark - 2 stamps (5.50 & 8.- DKK)
  
• ??.04.2009 Romania - 2 stamps
  
• ??.04.2009 Ukraine - 2 stamps (2.50 & 3.33 UAH) + booklet
  
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• 06.04.2009 Belgium - 1 souvenir-sheet (0.80 [euro])
  
• 07.04.2009 the Netherlands - 2 stamps (2x 0.77 [euro]) NEW
  
• 16.04.2009 Montenegro - 2 stamps (0.60 & 0.90 [euro]) + 1 souvenir-sheet (1.50 [euro])
  
• 23.04.2009 Bosnia and Herzegovina (Serb post) - 2 stamps (1.- & 2.- BAM) + booklet
  
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• 07.05.2009 Germany - 1 stamp (0.55 [euro])
  
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• 07.05.2009 Iceland - 2 stamps (90.- & 120.- ISK)
  
• 08.05.2009 Switzerland - 1 stamp (1.- CHF) (issued in mini sheets of 6 stamps)
  
• 08.05.2009 Aland - 1 stamp (Europa value) 200'000
  
• 08.05.2009 Hungary - 1 souvenir-sheet
  
• 09.05.2009 Turkey - 2 stamps (0.80 & 1.- YTL) 250'000 of each
  
• 09.05.2009 Croatia - 2 stamps
  
• 25.05.2009 Faroe Is. - 2 stamps (10.- & 12.- DKK)
  
• 28.05.2009 Slovakia - 1 stamp (0.73 [euro])
  
• 29.05.2009 Slovenia - 2 stamps (0.45 & 0.92 [euro]) 160'000 of each
  
• 05.06.2009 Austria - 1 stamp (0.65 [euro]) 600'000
  
• 12.06.2009 Norway - 2 stamps
  
• 17.06.2009 Russia
  
• 08.10.2009 Great-Britain
  
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