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Transit of Venus (TV) ScreenWorkshop |
Gene Zajac and Chuck Bueter
At the 2003 Annual Conference of the Great Lakes Planetarium Association (GLPA), participants of the make-it-and-take-it workshop constructed a device in which a crowd can view the sun safely. The text describing the procedures and supplies list will appear in the conference Proceedings.
Basically, a variety of inexpensive parts...
... and experimental designs...
...led to the final two products.
Workshop participants construct their solar-viewing devices; images courtesy
of Gene Zajac.
Making it happen; image courtesy of Marc Rouleau.
No, Bart, it doesn't work that way; image courtesy of Gene Zajac.
Donors generously contributed alternative sun-viewing resources. Learning
Technologies, Inc. contributed a Sunspotter. Rainbow Symphony
contributed a pair of Solar Shades for every conference delegate.
And Ray Shubinski set up a solar telescope. Images courtesy
of Gene Zajac.
The Sunspotter resolves the sunspot groups; image courtesy of Marc Rouleau.
The
sun, seen here as a SOHO photo from that day, put on a spectacular show.
Image courtesy of SOHO (ESA & NASA).