Greetings fellow astrophiles,
12:30 p.m. – Unfortunately, all of the weather sites are predicting increasing cloud cover for CNY into the afternoon, with rain possible in the early evening. As tomorrow is predicted to be even worse, we’ll be rescheduling our International SUNDay session for some time in the not-too-distant future. Stay tuned!
Greetings fellow astrophiles!
Our friends at Liverpool Public Library are hosting one of three How-To Festivals (the other two being hosted at NOPL on June 23rd and Baldwinsville on June 25th) and, provided the sky holds, CNYO members will be in attendance with solar scopes and introductory brochures to give a How-To on the daytime and nighttime skies (if the skies do not hold, we’ll figure out an indoor activity, Mars rock and meteor fragments in tow).
There will be many organizations present at all three libraries this coming week, with attendees able to learn about a whole host of topics. From the official announcement on the LPL calendar:
Interactively learn new skills, gain insight into a variety of topics, or take something home of your own creation! Baldwinsville, NOPL and Liverpool collaborate to bring this fun, interactive and unique learning experience to the people of our community!
Learn how to: Grill Outdoors, Make a Lavendar Scrub, Raise Chickens, Face/Body Paint, Become a Foster Parent, Make a Smoothie, Release Stress using FasterEFT, Prepare for an Emergency, Create a Beautiful Look, Make a Duct Tape Flower Pen, View the Sun and the Moon, Create Cards and River Rocks with Pressed Flowers, Do a Self Breast Exam, Read Food Labels and create a Menu for Diabetes Mangement, Draw 3D for Beginners, Jump Start a Stuck Life, and more!
Observing update to follow Wednesday afternoon. We hope you can join us and several other local organizations at LPL!
Greetings fellow astrophiles!
Weather update: The forecast for CNY does not look promising for the official Int’l SUNDay on the 21st, so we’re going to instead run a session on Saturday afternoon at our usual downtown location. We’ll be providing a final weather update on Saturday, 12:00 p.m.
With special thanks to Stephen W. Ramsden, The Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project, Rainbow Symphony and Lunt Solar Systems, CNYO’s second hosting of International SUNday is going to include (for the first 100 people, anyway) an extra dose of solar safety. Stephen et al. have made available 100 solar glasses to send off to organizations hosting International SUNday events!
CNYO ran a session for International SUNday on the Onondaga Creekwalk last June 22nd (see the observing log HERE), complete with H-alpha and Baader scopes (and we even had a good day for it, which is a bit of a rarity in CNY). I learned about the event from Stephen’s talk at NEAF 2014, where I found his lecture to be equally informative and inspiring.
I urge you to check out the website and Facebook page for the Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project – the amount of outreach Stephen does is tremendous (I am also happy to direct your attention to the Donate Button on the Project’s website to show a little love).
We’ll again host the session along the Armory Square slice of the Creekwalk – again next to Walt The Loch West Monster.
We hope you can join us on Saturday, June 20st in giving a little extra attention to our nearest star and reason why we’re all here!
Greetings fellow astrophiles,
With special thanks to Stephen W. Ramsden, The Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project, Rainbow Symphony and Lunt Solar Systems, CNYO’s second hosting of International SUNday is going to include (for the first 100 people, anyway) an extra dose of solar safety. Stephen et al. have made available 100 solar glasses to send off to organizations hosting International SUNday events – and we’re anxiously awaiting a box of them!
CNYO ran a session for International SUNday on the Onondaga Creekwalk last June 22nd (see the observing log HERE), complete with H-alpha and Baader scopes (and we even had a good day for it, which is a bit of a rarity in CNY). I learned about the event from Stephen’s talk at NEAF 2014, where I found his lecture to be equally informative and inspiring.
I urge you to check out the website and Facebook page for the Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project – the amount of outreach Stephen does is tremendous (I am also happy to direct your attention to the Donate Button on the Project’s website to show a little love).
We’re getting the attending scope list together presently and will have another announcement or two (and scheduled Facebook and meetup events) shortly. I expect we’ll again host the session along the Armory Square slice of the Creekwalk – again next to Walt The Loch West Monster.
Stay tuned – and we hope you can join us on SUNday, June 21st in giving a little extra attention to our nearest star and reason why we’re all here!
Greetings fellow astrophiles,
The forecast for Thursday (Oct. 23rd) presently isn’t all that pleasant for observing the upcoming partial solar eclipse, but 3 days is a long time for CNY forecasting. We will keep track of the weather over the next few days and will announce on this site and our Facebook Page accordingly.
The current location for the session will be the very southern end of the Onondaga Lake Parkway, just below the baseball diamond shown in the google map below.
For those willing to brave that left-hand turn at the main entrance, you need only loop left on the Parkway to get to the large parking lot at the southern end. For those NOT interested in fighting any rush hour traffic, we advise making a driving map that has you going past Heid’s, turning left onto 1st Street, making the left onto Lake Drive, then meander your way along to Onondaga Lake Parkway to get to the south end.
All of the data I’ve found so far for New York indicates the eclipse will start at 5:43 p.m. And go well past sunset (at which point it does’t matter to us anyway). The CNYO board will have several solar scopes and solar glasses there, so all you need do is show up! If you’ve solar equipment you want to bring, by all means do so.
Attendees may even be in for a special treat, as there’s currently a MASSIVE sunspot gracing the Sun’s surface. Seriously, look at the size of that thing in the image from NASA SOHO below:
As always, keep track of this website for weather updates, with the final call being made on Thursday afternoon. We hope you can join us!
