{"id":186524,"date":"2023-10-13T17:42:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T21:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=186524"},"modified":"2023-10-13T17:42:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T21:42:27","slug":"queens-observatory-hosts-open-house-for-weekends-partial-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/queens-observatory-hosts-open-house-for-weekends-partial-eclipse\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen&#8217;s Observatory hosts open house for weekend&#8217;s partial eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0There will be a partial solar eclipse visible for Canadians this Saturday and the Queen\u2019s Observatory will be hosting an Open House<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The partial eclipse will take place around 12-2:30 p.m. and peak at 1:14 p.m. Before the eclipse, the observatory will also feature a presentation entitled \"The Mid-Day Midnight Sky\" by Livia Comeau, a Queen's University Physics undergraduate student working on the 2024 Eclipse outreach and planning committee.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This event at the observatory is also acting as a lead-up to the events they will be holding in the spring for the total solar eclipse in April 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nikhil Aurora, Queen\u2019s Eclipse Coordinator, spoke to the frequency of these events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The last solar eclipse that happened, the partial solar eclipse that most people should remember was August 17th, 2017. The last total solar eclipse that happened and that passed through Kingston was 675 years ago, the year 1300,\" Aurora said. \"And so now we're actually lucky, we're getting two back to back solar eclipses, one partial, which we're calling a teaser for the total solar eclipse that happens in April. And then the next total solar eclipse that passes through Kingston is going to be in roughly 375 years. So I don't know about you, but I'm a little busy that day.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The open house will be held <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on Saturday Oct. 14 at 11 a.m. in Ellis Hall Auditorium.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information on the observatory, you can visit <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.queensu.ca\/observatory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.queensu.ca\/observatory\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the story below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0There will be a partial solar eclipse visible for Canadians this Saturday and the Queen\u2019s Observatory will be hosting an Open House The partial eclipse will take place around 12-2:30 p.m. and peak at 1:14 p.m. Before the eclipse, the observatory will also feature a presentation entitled &#8220;The Mid-Day Midnight Sky&#8221; by Livia Comeau, a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":186551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219,221],"tags":[31391,31390,31392,31389],"radio":[13056],"origine":[267,13051,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186524"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186803,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186524\/revisions\/186803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186524"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=186524"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=186524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}