Greetings fellow astrophiles! With a bit more advanced notice than the last lecture, TACNY is hosting a Junior Café Scientifique lecture at the MOST this Saturday morning at 9:30 a.m. Information is below. The SAS will also be hosting one of these lectures on May 19, 2012! Creepy Chemistry: Glowing Pumpkins, Magical Genies, Mysterious Fog and Much More! Saturday, October 15, 2011 – 9:30a.m. – 11:00a.m. Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science & Technology (MOST), Armory Square Syracuse, New York Speaker: Neal M. Abrams, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Talk […]
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Greetings fellow astrophiles! If you’ve not had the pleasure of hearing John McMahon lecture on the topic of astronomy, the Tully Free Library (google map HERE) is providing us all an opportunity to do so during daylight hours. Many attendees to Darling Hill Observatory Public Viewing sessions may recognize his voice (but not the contents of his dark outline) from his always fascinating tours of the Constellations and their mythological origins (and it’s likely that his Classics students at Le Moyne are equally well-versed in the reverse). One of DHO’s great exponents of small aperture observing (“small scopes” for the […]
Greetings fellow astrophiles, In rapid succession! 1. David Bishop Lecture The weather this weekend is expected to go from bad to worse tomorrow evening, with more severe rain predicted for Saturday afternoon. While tonight will very-very likely not be good for observing, the chance for rain is less than predicted for tomorrow, so we will be hosting David Bishop at Darling Hill this evening for a year-in-review astronomy lecture. As I’ve mentioned before, David used to make the yearly pilgrimage to Darling Hill for this lecture and they were always well-attended and informative. We are delighted to have David back […]
Greetings fellow astrophiles! I refer you to the animated gif below that shows Sun Spot activity from July 15 to July 29 (images taken from the SOHO website, sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov). Pay particular attention to Sun Spots 1260, 1261, and 1263: You’ll note there’s a large (LARGE!) band of Sun Spots approaching from the left in the last few images. For those who cannot see the labels in the bottom-right corner, the big circle is JUPITER, the smaller circle is EARTH. This all means that our Barlow Bob-hosted Solar Session tomorrow will have several large targets for observation in the observatory scopes. […]