The Sun Day activity in Iraqi Kurdistan Region
April.05.2009

With a very good luck,AAAK made it’s Sun Day event right after a thick layers of Cumulus clouds went from our skies and it lifted a magnificent clear weather behind!.

Very quick and in hurry, we take our telescopes outside the office building 2 hours before Sun disappeared from that very blue sky with some awesome cotton like pieces of Cumulus’s!

The location was the large square land in front of our office building, there was no enough time to take the telescopes to a park or crowd location, the time was running!
After setting the solar filtered Meade LX 200 and Coronado P.S.T very close to the sidewalk of Erbil-Kirkuk main road, peoples watched to telescopes and sure they came to see what are going on there!? After they get close enough they involved into the activity and start watching at the nearest star without any eye harmful, the white solar disc inside the Meade was fantastic even without any phenomena like sunspots or prominences, still the image was dramatic when little patch of clouds start passing in front of the bright disc of the Sun! …It was just like we are waiting and watching a solar eclipse!

Also the Sun was too quite even with the P.S.T , but too many questions from the side walkers and amateur astronomers of AAAK was about the invisible activities of the Sun, the answers shocked most of them! Specially who are away from astronomy but like to listen and know more about it!

There were more than 80 participants between 04:00 to 06:00 pm (16:00-18:00 UT)
Before the Sun sinking very dramatically behind a large patch of a Cumulus cloud.

Another unforgettable day with our Sun and its marvels show at that very special Sunday of this perfect astronomical year!

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Do you think so?

Now back to the kick off;
San Bernardino Valley Amateur Astronomers’ (SBVAA) President James Butts, announces that Dr. Edward J. Rhodes PhD. Collaborating Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at University of Southern California, (USC) will speak at the San Bernardino County Museum of Natural History for the clubs March 21st meeting. All monthly meeting are open and free to the public, starting at 7:00 pm located at 2024 Orange Tree Ln, Redlands.
Dr. Rhodes shall speak about the research that he has carried out at NASA JPL this past year on the feasibility of having future lunar astronauts place a solar observing instrument on a mountain peak near the lunar South Pole to observe the Sun for the prediction of solar energetic particle storms, which could be hazardous to the astronauts’ health and safety.
Dr. Rhodes leads an active program in both ground- and space-based observational helioseismology. One of the pioneers in this field of solar physics he is a NASA-selected Co-Investigator on the Solar Oscillation Investigation (SOI). The SOI-Michelson Doppler Imager flys onboard the NASA-ESA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory spacecraft. Dr. Rhodes is the Principal-Investigator for the 60-Foot Solar Tower at Mt. Wilson Observatory and the High Degree Helioseismic Network (HiDHN). This network onsists of a second station in Ukraine, at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. HiDHN provides nearly continuous observations of the sun during the summer months. Beginning in 1992 Ed Rhodes served as a Guest Computational Investigator in the NASA High Performance Computing and Communication Program. As part of this program he and his group employed several NASA-supported supercomputers located at Caltech and at JPL. These computers are still used in addition to a network of dedicated workstations located both at USC and the 60 Foot Solar Tower.

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HappySunDay:
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