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Johannesburg Centre,
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Projects planned around the 2002
Solar Eclipse
(Information as at 30 October 2002 ; submitted to Marina Joubert, FEST) NB: For a list of eclipse-related activities funded by DST & FEST
– see: These projects are in addition to those funded by DST and FEST: Prof Anthony Fairall; Dept of Astronomy, University of Cape Town Tel: +27-21-650-2392; At the planetarium in Cape Town, we have for some time been running "Sky Tonight and Eclipse Preview" (an extension of our regular Sky Tonight show), a live presentation that features all the usual maps, pictures and warnings. We have a handout sheet that carries the basic information. At the time of the eclipse, we hope that some of the amateurs of the Cape Centre of the ASSA will set up telescopes outside the planetarium. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Kim Vosse; Marketing and Communications; Tel: (021) 970 1210; The Shuttleworth Foundation is involved via the Independent Newspapers. There have already been six issues on the solar eclipse in the matric matters supplement of the Monday editions of Independent Newspapers. There will be another two as well as some main paper articles. (same project - more detail below). ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Barbara McGorian; Education Manager; Independent Newspapers Tel: (011) 633-2179 phone; The Independent Newspaper group will be inserting 500 000 pairs of solar viewers into The Star, Pretoria News, Daily News and Cape Argus on the 29th November. We have run a series of educational articles in Matric matters and in all of the above newspapers and will continue to do so right up until the eclipse. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Dr. Michael Gaylard; Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory Tel: +27-12-326-0742; In addition to what you already know about our project, our webpages on the eclipse are providing an online resource for educators and are specifically written for the southern ravell context. See: http://www.hartrao.ac.za/other/eclipse2002/index.html In addition, on the day of the eclipse various HartRAO staff will be acting as "eclipse experts" at various locations in the path of totality in Southern Africa, for local and international "eclipse chasers". ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~Derck Smits; Dept of Maths, Applied Maths & Astronomy; Unisa Tel: 012 429-6345; I will be filming and photographing the eclipse in Musina and relaying it back to WorldOnLine who will display the images on their web servers. I did this from Lusaka with the previous eclipse on 21 June 2001 as a collaboration between Unisa, Cisco Systems and WorldOnLine. A paper based on our experiences last time is due to be published in Astrophysics & Space Science, vol 282 pg 1 – 8, 2002. The article is entitled "Observations of the 21 June 2001 Total Solar Eclipse" The Musina Eclipse Festival : 29 November – 4 December See http://www.eclipseonline.co.za Waiting for information from the Johannesburg Planetarium? .................. Others? |
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