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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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