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Tag Archives: ASSA

Lessons learned trying to live-stream an eclipse

Urban Astronomer avatarPosted on 22 Dec, 2016 by Allen Versfeld22 Dec, 2016
Great African Eclipse os 1 September 2016. Credit: Allen Versfeld

Some months back, the Astronomical Society of South Africa (ASSA) decided use the upcoming partial annular solar eclipse to promote astronomy in South Africa, and perhaps drum up a few new members for ASSA. Now ASSA has decades of experience with public outreach, but they wanted to try something new: video.  My brief, as a committee volunteer, was to help them to live-stream an eclipse.  Overall, we felt we’d succeeded in the end, but there were definitely some lessons worth learning. … Continue reading →

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