Seth: At the Natural History museum, there will be a minimum of 10 sun safe telescopes set up on the deck where the public may observe the transit for free during the event. In addition to the free observing I currently have a total of 17 people bringing a minimum of one telescope each to the Natural History Museum of Utah. The museum is holding a “festival” type event in partnership with The Salt Lake Astronomical Society and the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Utah that will officially start at 3:00 PM and admission to the museum will be required for the festival which includes presentations, “hands on exhibits” and Telescope giveaways, live radio coverage, interviews and more. See http://nhmu.utah.edu/tov-2012 for more information. Steve
From: SJarvis@slco.org To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 19:55:15 +0000 Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] transit viewing volunteers
I'm trying to get a head/scope count so we can accurately and comprehensively promote public viewing opportunities for the June 5th Transit of Venus:
If you are going to take a telescope to a location that has free public viewing of the transit, will please you let me know about it?
NHMU? U of U? WSU? Brickyard Harmons? Gateway Fountains? Dimple Dell Rec Center?
Others?
Please let me know - we're trying to make sure our press announcements about this are accurate and encourage large numbers of people to attend.
Thanks!
Seth Jarvis Clark Planetarium sjarvis@slco.org
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