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Those of you planning to do some activities around the Mercury Transit may 
find this helpful.

    * NASA Sun-Earth Day transit webcast - November 8, 1:30 - 2:30 ET 
(10:30 -11:30 PT) 
-  http://sunearthday.nasa.gov/2007/events/mercurytransit.php
Featuring:
    * A panel of scientists live from NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center 
with an additional panel of educators and amateur astronomer live from 
Langley Research Center.
    * 2 NASA Explorer Schools will be connected for live 
interaction-questions and answers.
    * A telescope 'safety viewing' demonstration with instructions on how 
to view the transit using a classroom solarscope.
    * Live images of the transit from 2 NASA satellites, SOHO and TRACE.
    * Live ground based images from Kitt Peak and Hawaii!
    * Mercury transit Hawaiian style - live webcast from Hawaii 
http://astroday.net/MercTransit06.html

The Exploratorium's transit page is also up now:
<http://www.exploratorium.edu/transit/>http://www.exploratorium.edu/transit/
They will also have a live webcast of the transit from Kitt Peak.



Richard Fedele
Manager, Public Outreach Dept.
Kitt Peak National Observatory/NOAO
950 N. Cherry Ave.
Tucson, AZ 85719
520-318-8163
fax 520-318-8451
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www.noao.edu 

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