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SAS welcomes you to attend ‘Jupiter in the Park’ Saturday 28th March 2015

3/27/2015

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Have you ever wanted to see the magnificent planet Jupiter through a large telescope or see the lunar craters on the surface of the Moon?

Then come along to our ‘Jupiter in the Park’ evening where our members will be setting up there large telescopes for a FREE viewing night for this Saturday, along The Esplanade waterfront near Mallard Avenue at Paradise Point, from 6.30-9.30pm.

Our local newspaper the Gold Coast Sun have kindly advertised our event in this weeks edition, please also see more details on the flyer below, and come along for a wonderful night of stargazing, 
compliments of the Southern Astronomical Society on the Gold Coast  :-)

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~ SAS Jupiter in the Park flyer ~
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~ Gold Coast Sun news article 25th March 2015 ~
~ Update of our Jupiter in the Park event on the Gold Coast ~

Unfortunately the weather let us done again, but still a couple of hundred people turned up hoping to view the Moon and Jupiter through our telescopes. Even though we were not able to see much of the sky we spend a lot of time talking with many people about the night sky.

The children just loved looking through the telescopes even through it was just at the clouds :-)
All images presented in the slideshow are complements of Duncan Gillespie…thank you Duncan.

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~ Huge Solar Flare blasts out from Sunspot AR2297 ~

3/12/2015

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~ Huge Solar Flare blasts out from Sunspot AR2297 on the 12th March 2015 ~
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~ True Ha colour image through solar scope ~
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~ Monochrome image through solar scope ~
I was imaging the Sun this afternoon when a huge flash of light emanated all around Sunspot group AR2297, it was just this incredibly brilliant flash…I kept taking pictures and video until it started to quieten down. 

The X2-class solar flare began at about 2.50pm AEST or 04.50am UT…it was a very exciting event to witness :-)

Images taken with a Lunt 80mm solar telescope with a Canon 700D camera and 5x Barlow lens. Exposures were 1/80th second and ISO 400. Twenty images stacked in RegiStack6 and processed lightly in PS CS4. 

The monochrome image was taken with the same telescope and camera but with a 2x Barlow lens for a wider view.

Taken from Spaceweather.com (Date 12th March 2015)

X2-FLARE AND RADIO BLACKOUT: All week long, sunspot AR2297 has been crackling with solar flares. Today it produced a really big one. On March 11th at 16:22 UT (09:22 PDT), Earth orbiting-satellites detected an X2-class flare. The blast zone was larger than Earth itself, as shown here in these images below from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory:
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~ NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory Image ~
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‘Wow’…I can’t believe that I was looking at the Sun when this happened…it was very exciting!
WHY DO SOLAR FLARES EXPLODE?: On March 12th, NASA will launch a fleet of spacecraft to investigate the mystery of magnetic reconnection: On the sun, magnetic field lines cross, cancel, reconnect and—Bang! A solar flare explodes. How does the simple act of crisscrossing magnetic fields trigger such a ferocious blast? The Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission aims to find out. Get the full story from Science@NASA.
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2015/10mar_mms/


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