{"id":366,"date":"2014-12-12T15:01:09","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T18:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/?p=366"},"modified":"2014-12-13T21:14:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T00:14:00","slug":"extra-december-viewing-saturday-dec-13th-7-9pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/2014\/12\/12\/extra-december-viewing-saturday-dec-13th-7-9pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Closed Early: Extra December Viewing: Saturday Dec 13th, 7-9pm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Closed as of\u00a08:00pm<\/strong>: The viewing ran from 7-8pm, with much of it cloudy out.\u00a0 We had clear sky at the start and the clouds moved in as we were aligning the telescope.\u00a0 We did work the telescope manually from about 7:40-8pm and gave 2 people a chance to use the telescope on a star cluster and a double star, but not the other people here earlier which is disappointing.<\/p>\n

If you’re checking thing out, please search on the “Gemini meteor shower” as they’re quite prominent tonight and you could spot some near or after midnight if the clouds clear up.\u00a0 Check out www.astronomy.com<\/a> for information on how to search for them.<\/p>\n

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We don’t normally try to organize a viewing in December as people’s schedules tend to be busier, but since we’ve had quite a few cancellations in the past months, we’re going to put one on.<\/p>\n

If you’d like to go see the telescope at UPEI Saturday December 13th, 7-9pm, come on over.\u00a0 Telescope dome on the rooftop of Memorial, UPEI<\/a>.\u00a0 We’ve got Brian from the local Charlottetown RASC group who has volunteered to help with the telescope and we’ll have a variety of different things available in Memorial 417 for both adults and children.<\/p>\n

Mars will be up near the horizon close to seven but too low to get a viewing with our telescope.\u00a0 It may or may not be possible to get a look at the planet Uranus (very far away as planets go and very dim), but we should have some good stars to check out.<\/p>\n

Hope the weather forecasts holds as accurate. Right now it’s forecasted to be clear for Saturday evening.\u00a0 Unfortunately, if the weather changes, there won’t be a “rain date”.\u00a0 Watch this blog for any cancellation notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Closed as of\u00a08:00pm: The viewing ran from 7-8pm, with much of it cloudy out.\u00a0 We had clear sky at the start and the clouds moved in as we were aligning the telescope.\u00a0 We did work the telescope manually from about … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}