Who is Kepler?

Kepler Oliveira is a Professor of Astronomy at the Instituto de Física da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. in Brazil.

I am married to Fátima, also a Professor of Astronomy at UFRGS.

I have lived in:

• São Paulo, SP - Brazil
• Porto Alegre, RS - Brazil
• Austin, Texas - USA
• Montreal, Québec - Canada
• La Serena, Chile

I sure like to travel, so I have visited:

• Brazil
• Bahia

• São Paulo
• Minas Gerais
• Observatório Astronômico do Pico dos Dias
• Rio de Janeiro

• Rio Grande do Sul

• Observatório Astronômico do Morro Santana
• Santa Catarina

• Paraná
• Rio Grande do Norte

• Espirito Santo
• Brasilia
• Ceará
  • Fortaleza
  • Jericoacara
  • Canoa Quebrada
• Piaui
• Pernambuco
• Recife
• Olinda
• Porto de Galinhas
• Fernando de Noronha
• Uruguai
• Montevideo
• Punta del Leste
• Argentina
• Buenos Ayres
• San Juan
• Observatorio Astronomico de Leoncito
• Cordoba
• Calafate
• Bariloche
• Chile
• Santiago
• La Serena
• Pucon
• Antofagasta
• San Pedro de Atacama
• Puerto Mont
• Torres del Payne
• Frutillar
• Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory
• European Southern Observatory
• Mexico
• Mexico City
• Sonora
• USA
• Texas
• McDonald Observatory

• New Mexico

• Colorado
• Lousiana
• Florida
• Arkansas
• Tennessee
• Virginia
• West Virginia
• Pennsylvania
• New York
• New Jersey
• Washington DC
• Maryland
• Delaware
• Oklahoma
• Kansas
• North Carolina
• South Carolina
• Massachussetes
• New Hampshire
• Vermont
• Maine
• Arizona
• Grand Cannyon

• Kitt Peak National Observatory

• Michigan
• Minnesota
• Iowa
• Illinois
• California
• Missouri
• Canada
• Quebec

• Ontario
• Niagara Falls
• England
• London
• Dover - Strait of Dover by boat to Calais, FR
• Leicester
• Warwick
• Oxsford
• France
• Paris
• Toulouse
• Marseille
• Lyon
• Saint Tropez
• Portugal
• Lisbon - Lisboa
• Sintra
• Coimbra
• Evora
• Porto
• The Netherlands - Holland
• Amsterdan
• Germany
• München
• Heidelberg
• Romantische Strasse: Frankfurt am Main to Wurzburg
• Fußen
• Hamburg
• Kiel
• Denmark
• Århus
• Copenhagen - København
• Helsinger
• Sweden
• Halsingbørg
• Austria
• Salzburg
• Wien
• Switzerland
• Lausanne
• Zermatt - The Matterhorn
• Italy
• Venezia
• Firenze
• Roma
• Napoli
• Capri
• Sorrento
• Brindisi: boat to Greece
• Greece
• Patras - Patrai
• Corinthos - Korinthos
• Athens - Athinai
• Aegina
• Mikonos
• Santorini
• Rhodes
• Crete
• India
• Delhi - New Delhi
• Naini Tal
• Almora - Himalayas
• Corbett National Park - Uthar Pradesh
• Lithuania
• Vilnius
• Poland
• Krakow
• Koninki
• Wroclaw
• Norway
• Tromso
• Summaroy
• Skibotn
• Spain
• Madri
• Barcelona
• Valencia
• Granada
• Cordoba
• Sevilla
• Amermenia
• Yerevan
• Scotland
• Eddinburg
• Colombia
• Cartagena

• 2006: London, Leicester, UK
• 2007: Punta del Este and Montevideo, Uruguay; Maceió, Brazil
• 2008: Natal and Fernando de Noronha, Brazil; Barcelona, Valencia, Granada, Cordoba and Sevilla; Porto, Portugal
• 2009: Paris, France; Padua and Venice, Italy; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• 2010: Patagonia: El Calafate, Perito Moreno, El Chalten, Buenos Ayres - Argentina; Torres del Payne, Chile; Tübingen, Berlin, Germany; Honolulu, Hilo, Hawaii; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• 2011: Praia do Rosa, Garopaba, Brazil; Oahu and Hilo, Hawaii; Munich, Germany
• 2012: Glacier San Rafael, Chiloé, Puerto Varas, Puerto Mont, Frutillar, Osorno Volcano, Argentina; (Fatima: Roma, Florença, Costa Amalfitana; Capri, Italy); Frankfurt, Germany; Krakow, Auschwitz-Poland
• 2013: Austin and New York, USA; Hilo, Hawaii; Natal, Brazil
• 2014: Fortaleza, Morro Branco, Brazil; Rio de Janeiro (ABC); Roma, Italy; Yerevan, Armenia; Montréal, Canada
• 2015: Punta Cana, Samana (whales), Republica Dominicana; (Fatima: Berlin, Potsdam-Germany, Estocolmo-Sweden, Thallin-Estonia, San Petesburg-Russia, Helsinke-Finland, Amsterdan-Holland, Bruxele,Bruges-Belgium, London UK, Parma,Verona) Roma-Italy, Oxsford UK; Ouro Preto, Brazil; (Fatima: Bonito, Brazil;) Mariscal, Brazil
• 2016: London, Warwick, Stratford sur Avon, UK; Edinburg, Scotland; Cartagena, Isla Rosario, Colombia; Hilo, Hawaii
• 2017: Colonia, Uruguay; San Martin de los Andes, Bariloche, Buenos Ayres, Argentina; Hilo,Kahalu'u,Hapuna,Captain Cook (boat to volcano) Hawaii; La Serna, Chile
• 2018: Natal, Pipa, Brazil; Hilo (helicopter to volcano eruption), Kalua-Kona, Hawaii; Austin, USA; Fortaleza, Sobral, Brazil
• 2019: Tucson, Austin, Chicago, USA; Atens, Santorini, Rhodes; Crete; Mikonos, Pireus; Marmaris, Istambul, Turkey; Hilo Hawaii.

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