Monthly Archives: April 2015

2015 Astronomy Day Campbell Park

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Observe The Sun Safely! Never look at the Sun without a proper filter!
Solar Programs are held 1st Sunday of every Month 2:00-4:00 PM at Houge Park weather permitting.
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2015 Astronomy Day At Campbell Park
Sunspot count 79 (NOAA) C-Class Flare Observed Live in H-Alpha @ 11:30AM

We were so very lucky to see the Sun between the clouds at the get go as were 3 public bystanders. One long stringy (35 Earth Diameters!) C-Class H-Alpha flare was seen stringing out from the solar disc from AR-2324. We Stayed until 3PM sharing views with about 60 people walking or biking the Los Gatos Creek Trail. Happy Astronomy Day, stellar cheers and enjoy the below pics.

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C-Class Flare Observed. This Gif was taken a day earlier so flare is just inside the solar disc.

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Sunspots for Today. This Image was taken a day earlier. Today’s Sunspot count was 79 NOAA

Entire Solar Disc in H-Alpha, note Prominences and Filaments. Credit Wolf W.

Image taken today in H-Alpha courtesy of SpaceWeather.com

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Susan O’Neil Teaching On Our Sun’s Atmospheres

 

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Wolf and his Scope (Far left), Bill O’Neil, Michael Packer and his scopes (Far right)

 

 

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Bill O at SJAA’s 100mm H-Alpha Scope

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SJAA 2015 Earth Day

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Observe The Sun Safely! Never look at the Sun without a proper filter!
Solar Programs are held 1st Sunday of every Month 2:00-4:00 PM at Houge Park weather permitting.
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Cupertino’s Earth Day Was A Stellar Success Despite Some Cloud Layer
At the end of the day SJAA’s 5 scopes shared the power of the sun with 100’s of Earth Day patrons. We handed out a couple dozen info sheets and signed lots of Eco-Passports (Fill-in cards that get kids and adults to visit an learn). Enjoy the pics below.

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SJAA at 2015 Earth Day City of Cupertino.

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Simply said our Sun drives life on Earth.

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Bill at Club’s scope. We had several prominences all in the 2-3 earth diameters range.

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Terry at her H-Alpha. Lot of girls stopped by today.

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Bill’s 10-inch Dob saw more sunspots than estimated by NOAA. Terrific faculae today.

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Walking around Earth Day and the art of connection.

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Santa Clara Audubon’s Booth

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Malika sharing info on Sunspots

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Thanks to are volunteers who brought a smile and awe to all!

Thanks for looking and save the date for Astronomy Day at Campbell park Saturday April 25. See the details at our Meetup.com site. Bring yourself or a solar scope and enjoy a day in a park. 
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April 2015 Lunar Eclipse Shots

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Member April 2015 Eclipse Shots

Members, send us one or two of you lunar eclipse photos (max size 720×1280) to
m.dot packer at yahoo dot com and we’ll post here. People shots welcome!

“look for oranges, reds, greys and turquoise“

The source of the turquoise is ozone. During a lunar eclipse, most of the light illuminating the Moon passes through the stratosphere, and is reddened (can look orange) by scattering. However, light passing through the upper stratosphere penetrates the ozone layer, which absorbs red light and actually makes the passing light ray bluer” This can be seen as a turquoise fringe around the red.

 

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Marilyn Perry, Canon T3i, f/5, 0.6 sec, ISO800, 200mm

Christopher-Calubaquib Nikon D7000, 300mm

Christopher Calubaquib San Jose Nikon D7000, 300mm

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