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4th annual International Sidewalk Astronomy Night.?
Saturday March 20th.Amateur astronomers should set up their scope(s) in a public location and offer to show pedestrians the sky.How many others are going to join in on this program,and what are some good public sites to set up?
Wally
Well, …, The Raleigh Astronomy club is actually conducting a Messier Marathon on March 20th. Although, this is primarily a club event it is open to the public. We also conduct public observing sessions on the 1st Friday of every month (weather permitting) in-front of the Museum of Natural Science in downtown Raleigh, NC. A Public Observing Session at Lake Jordan on the 2nd Friday of every month, and a public Astronomy lecture on the 4th Friday of every Month. Additionally, we conduct astro-imaging seminars, telescope tune-up (Training Clinics), and host a yearly Astronomy Day celebration at the Museum as well. See our website below for further information. All of these events are free and open to the public. You do not have to be a member of our club to attend or participate in these events.
However, Club members can also participate in a telescope loaner program where we loan out a telescope for 3-6 months so new members can try before they buy.
Frankly, if you want to engage the public, you need to go where they public is and that means into light polluted areas of town where people are out and about. Malls, Shopping Centers, Movie theaters, and the like are good places to setup. Make sure you let the owners know what you’re planning to do in advance.
Believe it or not we take the light polluted areas on as a challenge to see what objects we can show the public despite the street lights and other light polluting nuisances in the area. It also gives us a chance to educate the public on how light pollution is ruining our night skies, affecting animal life, and affecting our health as humans.
Some of the objects you can view in a light polluted area on March 20th are follows: Venus, Saturn, Mars, Moon, Pleiades (The Moon will be occultating some of the stars in Pleiades), and the Orion Nebula. That’s should be enough to keep the public awed.
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