All, Tonight’s public session (4/26) at the Darling Hill Observatory is on. Come one, come all and enjoy the views through our 16” telescope or enjoy the presentations from our members. Please dress warmly as the temperatures will be in the mid 40’s. The chartroom will be heated if you need a place to warm up. Sunset is just before 8:00PM so arrive around then. See you on the Hill!
Tonight’s public session 3/29/24 is cancelled, and won’t be rescheduled due to clouds and poor weather expected tonight and tomorrow. Our next public session is the weekend of April 26th. We hope to see you then. Thank You.
As we are just about two weeks away from the eclipse there have been several activities that the SAS has been involved in around the community. On March 19th Dr. Kamal Jabbour presented “Eclipses” at the Cazenovia library. They are also holding additional events leading up to the eclipse. Cazenovia Public Library looks forward to the April 2024 solar eclipse News Channel 9 has published an additional special title Totality:The Great American Eclipse. This includes an interview by Ray Dague beginning at the twenty and half minute mark. Totality:The Great American Eclipse
Today Raymond Dague our Observatory Director was interviewed by News Channel 9 regarding the total solar eclipse happening one month from today. Being in the path of totality is “something you that you carry for the rest of your life” as Ray says in the interview. Here is a link to it below. https://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/syracuse-astronomical-society-explains-why-solar-eclipse-is-exciting-unusual/ The path of totality will not pass over our observatory in Tully but for many of us living in the Syracuse Area it does. If you are just outside totality it is highly recommended that you make plans to be somewhere in the path on eclipse […]