{"id":765,"date":"2018-05-10T10:34:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T13:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/?p=765"},"modified":"2018-08-14T10:11:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T13:11:55","slug":"solar-viewings-for-summer-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/2018\/05\/10\/solar-viewings-for-summer-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Viewings for Summer 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xs97aPRCOSs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Since sunsets are so late in the evening from May through August, we are switching our public telescope viewing sessions over from nighttime to daytime. We&#8217;ll set up one or two of our solar telescopes and view the features of Sun (safely!) in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CH880_VrxxU\">hydrogen alpha wavelength<\/a> or in white light.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_699\" style=\"width: 274px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-699\" class=\"wp-image-699 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/files\/2017\/06\/solar-telescope-cropped-264x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/files\/2017\/06\/solar-telescope-cropped-264x300.png 264w, https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/files\/2017\/06\/solar-telescope-cropped-768x872.png 768w, https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/files\/2017\/06\/solar-telescope-cropped-902x1024.png 902w, https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/files\/2017\/06\/solar-telescope-cropped.png 1017w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-699\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our hydrogen-alpha solar telescope.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Wednesday, May 23, 12:00-1:00PM &#8211; <strong>POSTPONED<\/strong> to May 30, 12:00-1:00PM<\/li>\n<li>Thursday, June 28, 12:00-1:00PM &#8211;\u00a0<del>POSTPONED to July 5, 12:00-1:00PM<\/del> <strong>CANCELLED <\/strong>(due to cloudy weather)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><del>Thursday, July 26, 2:00-4:00PM<\/del><del>POSTPONED to Thursday, August 2, 12:00-1:00PM <\/del><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>POSTPONED<\/strong> to Tuesday, August 7, 12:00-1:30PM<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Wednesday, August 15, 12:00-1:00PM<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>CANCELLED<\/strong><\/span> (due to cloudy weather)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The viewings are weather-dependent &#8211; if the sky is completely clouded over so that we can&#8217;t see the Sun, we&#8217;ll have to cancel the viewing or postpone it. This post will be edited with updates on the viewings as needed.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_717\" style=\"width: 2570px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-717\" class=\"wp-image-717 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/files\/2017\/06\/SSDE-building.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/files\/2017\/06\/SSDE-building.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/files\/2017\/06\/SSDE-building-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/files\/2017\/06\/SSDE-building-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/files\/2017\/06\/SSDE-building-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/files\/2017\/06\/SSDE-building-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-717\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Solar viewings will be held outside the SSDE building.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>All viewings will be held outside the SSDE building entrance (building #30 on the campus map). The viewing will be at ground level, so it will be accessible to anyone with mobility issues. Parking is available in lots adjacent to the building (shown in the map below) and there is no charge for parking in these lots during the summer semester.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_732\" style=\"width: 1434px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-732\" class=\"wp-image-732 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/files\/2017\/07\/eclipse-viewing-map.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1424\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/files\/2017\/07\/eclipse-viewing-map.png 1424w, https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/files\/2017\/07\/eclipse-viewing-map-300x129.png 300w, https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/files\/2017\/07\/eclipse-viewing-map-768x331.png 768w, https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/files\/2017\/07\/eclipse-viewing-map-1024x442.png 1024w, https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/files\/2017\/07\/eclipse-viewing-map-500x216.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1424px) 100vw, 1424px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-732\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The solar viewings will be outside the entrance of the SSDE building (indicated by orange star on the map). Parking is available in UPEI Lots D &amp; E and the MacLauchlan Arena lot.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since sunsets are so late in the evening from May through August, we are switching our public telescope viewing sessions over from nighttime to daytime. We&#8217;ll set up one or two of our solar telescopes and view the features of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/2018\/05\/10\/solar-viewings-for-summer-2018\/\">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\/765"}],"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=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":808,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.upei.ca\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}