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UTD To Celebrate Solar Eclipse with Events Totally Made for Comets By Amanda Siegfried | March 25, 2024 UT Dallas will be in the path of totality during the April 8 solar eclipse. The eclipse will be visible from 12:23 p.m. to 3:03 p.m. on campus, with about 3 ½ minutes of totality beginning at 1:41 p.m. The University of Texas at Dallas community will celebrate a celestial event almost 150 years in the making for North Texas with activities designed to bring Comets closer together and give them a better view of the science in the skies. Dr. Mary Urquhart (left) and Centerville Elementary School fifth grade teacher ...
In a little over a week we will see the Total Solar Eclipse in Arkansas. We are having a small event with 19 campers at a local RV Park in London Arkansas where I am staying for thge eclipse. I will be setting up a table and possibly a commercial event tent for my telescopes and in case the weather changes or to get in out of the heat. It should not be a problem and we hope it is still cool and sunshiny at least until the eclipse is in its totality. I purchased extra sunshield glasses and will give out free signed certificates of participation as momentos. I am looking forward to seeing everyone who will be coming to the event and hope their experience will ...
REGISTRATION ENDS ON MARCH 28, 2024 Starts: April 5, 2024 9:00 AM (UTC-11) Ends: April 30, 2024 5:00 PM (UTC-11) Astronomers Without Borders and International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC=” Isaac”) sponsor a special Asteroid Search Campaign as part of Global Astronomy Month. IASC is an online citizen scientist program for teams of citizen scientists to make original astronomical discoveries. Learn more about asteroids on our Observing Resources page. During the campaign, each team will receive 20 unique sets of images (weather permitting) and search them for asteroids using Astrometrica software. Each image set will be taken ...
SOLAR ECLIPSES AND SARM (11) By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe . . In July 2019, SARM organized another extraordinary expedition, this time in Latin America (Argentina, Chile, Peru and Bolivia, among the visited sites being Machu Picchu, Nazca and Easter Island), with the observation of a total solar eclipse in Chile. Just like in 2017, I couldn't go on this expedition, but I wrote haikus for Valentin Grigore's astrophotographs, which were published on the old website of Astronomers Without Borders. #poetry
Press Release ASTRONOMERS WITHOUT BORDERS COLLECTING AND RECYCLING ECLIPSE VIEWING GLASSES FOR FUTURE SOLAR ECLIPSES AROUND THE WORLD Calabasas, CA, March 26, 2024: Astronomers Without Borders (AWB) is collecting gently-used eclipse-viewing glasses from across the US and Canada to send to underserved communities and schools internationally for use in future solar eclipses. As a total solar eclipse sweeps across North America from coast-to-coast on April 8, millions of eclipse glasses will be used to safely witness this dramatic celestial event. Now, AWB, with the help of its many partners, have launched a continent-wide grassroots initiative to collect ...

Solar Years

. . Solar Years . . How long would a year be were we to dwell on a planet other than Earth, albeit within solar carousel where we’d relish our present mirth, . assuming that we were ‘we’ adaptive in body functions and so on instead of in form and feature captive to the environs we grow on? . Though the premise may seem a bit flimsy for the astro-poems I write which are themed hardly ever in whimsy nonetheless in mind came to light . this length of a year planetary thread for my current rhyming caprice. Thus I’ll follow as the motif has led to where inspiration ...
SOLAR ECLIPSES AND SARM (10) By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe . . In August 2017, SARM organized a large expedition in the USA, from the east coast (New York) to the west coast (Los Angeles and San Francisco). Between these, the participants observed a total solar eclipse in Rexburg. I wasn't on that expedition, but I wrote some haikus for Valentin Grigore's astrophotographs, initially published on the old AWB website. #poetry
Some famous people promoting GAM2024 @ CEDIC24 C entral E uropean D igital I maging C onference CEDIC24-Keynote Speaker Russell Croman Egon Döberl - CEO ASA Astrosysteme GmbH Two famous international Astrophotographers Wolfgang Promper (left) Gerald Rhemann (right) ..... of course together with NC-Austria ;-) German - Astro-Youtuber Frank Sackenheim (Astrocologne) The international well known photographer Sebastian Voltmer from left to right: Ulf Backmeyer, Russell Croman, Christoph Kaltseis The European gate for deep.sky-photography https://www.hellas-sky.com Diamond ...
SOLAR ECLIPSES AND SARM (9) By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe . . An airplane eclipsing the Sun and the diamond ring of the total solar eclipse - extracts from the astrophotography truck for the humble and confused beginner's luck. . The Australian expedition also marked the beginning in astrophotography and astro-haiga for me. In this sense, I am republishing two pieces below (originally published on the old AWB website). . . #poetry
SOLAR ECLIPSES AND SARM (8) By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe . . In November 2012, another SARM mini-expedition. This time, Felician Ursache (an amateur astronomer active in the EURONEAR project) and I went through Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia, where we visited Sydney and Brisbane and saw a total solar eclipse in Cairns. On this occasion I wrote the following astropoem: . TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE 2012 AT THE CORAL SEA By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe . To wake up in the night somewhere at an edge of the world with the Coral Sea and the entire Pacific Ocean forward, and with a vivid sky above, perturbed ...
I will be hosting a small event on April 8, 2024 for the Total Solar Eclipse viewing in London, Arkansas, USA. There will be 19 campers and a few local residence making a possible 50 person turnout including adults and children. We are hosting some campers for few days between April 6 thru the 12th. I am setting up my commercial event tent with three telescopes for viewing the night skies during that week occasionally or as the season allows. I will be handing out free certificates downloadable from the Astronomical League web site to local participants to show they witnessed the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse in London Arkansas, USA. Since I am an Astronomer and ...
Image details: VISTA stares deep into the cosmos Credit: ESO/UltraVISTA team. Acknowledgement: TERAPIX/CNRS/INSU/CASU https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1213a ––– | MANKIND’S SOLITUDE | W e call „Hey there!” just to receive a simple or a complex signal which could confirm * correct assumptions… First were made pretty long time ago and triggered long-term searches that haven't been completed yet And so, travelling through space-time, mankind hasn't resolved the riddle of its solitude among the stars They're there; still glitter in the night sky seen from a distance even for ...
SOLAR ECLIPSES AND SARM (7) By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe . . exotical things in the islands of Japan - an eclipse walking (Andrei Dorian Gheorghe) . Another kind of solar eclipse is the annular one, because the position of the Moon makes this natural satellite too “small” to produce a diamond ring with the Sun. In May 2012, SARM organized a mini-expedition (president Valentin Grigore and me) to observe an annular solar eclipse in the heart of Japan, together with two Japanese amateur astronomers (Yasuhiro Tonomura and Kiyoshi Izumi) and a British professional astronomer (David Asher), between the participation in the ...
SOLAR ECLIPSES AND SARM (6) By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe . . The Sun’s apparent passing on the canopy of heaven means daily natural entertainment. But if the Sun is eclipsed in part by the Moon, this means rare celestial art. (Andrei Dorian Gheorghe) . If total solar eclipses are the most spectacular, partial solar eclipses are the most frequent. And we must not forget that the solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 will only be seen as partial by the people who will be in its area, but will not be on the line of totality. In January 2011, on the occasion of a fascinating partial eclipse, SARM (this time as part of Astronomers ...
SOLAR ECLIPSES AND SARM (5) By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe . . During each total solar eclipse I can tell you: if you really want to be alive on this surprising Earth… then never forget home your celestial passport! (Andrei Dorian Gheorghe) . In March 2006, the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy (SARM) organized a national Romanian expedition with special guests from the Netherlands and Germany to observe a total solar eclipse in Turkey, in which the participants passed through Istanbul. Ankara, Cappadocia, the Taurus Mountains and stopped to watch the spectacular phenomenon on the shores of the Mediterranean ...

Celestial Wishing Well

. . Celestial Wishing Well . . Oh Wishing Well Cluster, grant me a wish, perhaps more than one, if you would. You waken within me starry-eyed hopes plus dreams which in all likelihood may stumble and fall on galactic slopes, though I hope hopes shall never diminish. . How stunning the colors in your array called NGC three five three two, some hot bluish tinted, others orange hued. While names diverse were given you, the ‘Wishing Well’ title my fancies wooed, one thousand three hundred light-years away. . In constellation Carina you’re found which means the ‘Keel of Argo ship’ ...
I have been back home in Arkansas vacationing for a few months now waiting on April 8th to come nearer in a few weeks. I am in London Arkansas, an hour west of Little Rock at a remote RV Park that is exceptionally dark except for 2 small light on the laundry and shower fasilities. With Coyotes yelping in the distance it reminds you of the wild nature of Arkansas. It is dark enough, and not like the big city lights I am used to in Florida. Just about all the campsites are reserved in the area including mine, and a lot of stargazers and eclipse watchers will be my company for a few days during that week. Ive ordered 20 pairs of filtered viewing glasses that also ...
SOLAR ECLIPSES AND SARM (4) By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe . . The silence of the total solar eclipse can be heard louder than the music of people, it is perhaps the true celestial music. (Andrei Dorian Gheorghe) . Today I will conclude the commemoration of 25 years since SARM's great EuRoEclipse Perseids 1999 event by mentioning that at its international cosmopoetry festival there were also poetic-musical moments with guitar accompaniment (astrofolk music). I have chosen below three poetical fragments about the total eclipse of the Sun composed by three amateur astronomers, composers, poets and photographers - ...