{"id":513,"date":"2016-04-14T14:12:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T17:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/?p=513"},"modified":"2016-04-23T07:48:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T10:48:17","slug":"april-solar-viewing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/2016\/04\/14\/april-solar-viewing\/","title":{"rendered":"April Solar Viewing: POSTPONED to April 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE (Sat, Apr 23)<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleardarksky.com\/c\/Charlottetownkey.html\">current weather forecast<\/a> is showing cloud coverage during the scheduled viewing period of 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 23. Although the sky looks nice and clear now, a look at the satellite data shows PEI to be currently under just a tiny gap in a large cloud mass, so not a good day for seeing the Sun later on.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll try again next week &#8211; Saturday, April 30, 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Third time&#8217;s the charm?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyandtelescope.com\/observing\/guide-to-observing-the-sun-in-h-alpha092321050923\/\">viewing the surface features of the Sun through an H-alpha filter<\/a> using our solar telescope. You&#8217;ll find the telescope set up in UPEI Parking Lot A across from the Farmers&#8217; Market (see campus map <a href=\"http:\/\/files.upei.ca\/map.pdf\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE (Sat, Apr 23) The current weather forecast is showing cloud coverage during the scheduled viewing period of 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 23. Although the sky looks nice and clear now, a look at the satellite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/2016\/04\/14\/april-solar-viewing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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\/513"}],"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\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}