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Saturday August 22, 2015
from 10:00am
to 2:00pm |
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Status update: Event announced by our Observatory
Director on 8/22/2015 at 5:47am:
We have a perfect day for solar observing - clear skies
and an active Sun
in both white-light and hydrogen-alpha light! |
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Public
Observing Event
at
the ACA Observatory
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Solar Viewing
+ Cookout! |
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Safely view the surface of the Sun! |
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View
sunspots,
prominences,
filaments and solar flares
on our star, the Sun,
with detail shown when the view
is limited to the light of Hydrogen-alpha (H-α)
at 656.28 nm
(6562.8 Ångstroms)
provided by specially equipped solar
telescopes with H-a filters, and also in white-light with front-mounted filters
or a
Herschel Wedge for high definition white-light viewing
with refractors.
We'll also have Radio Telescopes with
Yagi & Dish Antennas observing the Sun at 11MHz
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Our grill-master will be cooking up the
best hotdogs
and hamburgers available in the park!
(Please note that the food is available for a small fee)
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The best free coffee in Akron will be brewing all observing session. |
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IMPORTANT NOTICE:
NEVER, and we mean NEVER EVER aim a telescope
at the Sun
unless it is PROPERLY FILTERED and inspected by a
knowledgeable adult!
Failure to follow this advice will lead to permanent eye damage
or even blindness.
Your vision is
far too important to lose by making a serious error in judgement! |
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Be
sure to hit the REFRESH / RELOAD button on your browser
(or the <F5> key on your keyboard) for up-to-date information |
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Live AccuWeather Satellite Mosaic |
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Solar System objects rise/transit/set times from the ACA Observatory on the date of this event... |
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New feature: The "T"
on each object's line in the chart above indicates the time of
transit in addition to the rise and set times for the object. |
Jet Stream (updates
automatically to latest available image)
The Jet Stream affects astronomical "seeing" (steadiness of the air)
If
we're in a gray area, seeing will not be as good as in a white area.
If
we're in a white area, the shorter the arrows, the better.
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