{"id":2888,"date":"2012-04-29T07:46:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T11:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=2888"},"modified":"2012-04-29T07:48:42","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T11:48:42","slug":"international-astronomy-day-2012-april-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2012\/04\/international-astronomy-day-2012-april-28\/","title":{"rendered":"International Astronomy Day 2012 April 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/20120428-28.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/20120428-28-299x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20120428-28\" width=\"299\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2890\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/20120428-28-299x224.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/20120428-28-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/20120428-28-1023x767.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/20120428-28.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a>It was International Astronomy Day on Saturday April 28th, 2012 and members and friends of The  Royal Astronomical Society of Canada &#8211; Kingston Centre were out in force at Confederation Basin in front of Kingston City hall from 1 to 3 pm.<\/p>\n<p>We were observing the sun with solar filters and the 4 or 5 groups of sunspots on it.  There was a lot of cloud coming and going and in some cases the sunspots did disappear.<\/p>\n<p>We were also passing out Transit of Venus glasses along with a brochure reminding people of the Tuesday June 5th, 2012 event.  RASC Starfinders and Moon Gazers were also passed out.<\/p>\n<p>The telescopes on set were: Coronado Solarmax 60, Corondao PST, a Meade DS90 with a Baader film filter, a Bausch &#038; Lomb Schmidt-Cassegrain with a Thousand Oaks filter, a Meade SC with a baader film filter.<\/p>\n<p>Good location, traffic came in groups on a cold windy day.  Surprisingly we had many tourists from out of town including overseas and the United States.<br \/>\nTotal guest count was 74.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was International Astronomy Day on Saturday April 28th, 2012 and members and friends of The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada &#8211; Kingston Centre were out in force at Confederation Basin in front of Kingston City hall from 1 to 3 pm. We were observing the sun with solar filters and the 4 or 5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}