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Solar Art Exhibition in Hawaii

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Deirdre KelleghanSeptember 20, 2019

Exhibition in Hawaii Some time ago a painting of mine won a prize in the My Sun My Star Contest. This was a solar art competition involving photographs, drawings and paintings inspired by the sun. The contest was run by The National Solar Observatory in Boulder Colorado. One of the aspects of the prize is that my painting X-Ray Sun (above) will go on exhibition . On Friday September 20th if you are in Hawaii (how exotic) one of my paintings and in addition one of my solar drawings will be on show. Since the prize came my way I was asked if another work of mine could be included in their exhibitions. NSO requested one of my solar drawings. That sketch it is called East Limb Proms. The venue is The University of Hawaii – Institute for Astronomy, it is on the island of Maui. The event is an open day … Continue reading →

Active Region 2546

Posted on May 16, 2016 by Deirdre KelleghanFebruary 20, 2018

Sketch of sunspot AR 2546 by Deirdre Kelleghan, May 15, 2016 1:25-2:30 UT. Sketch details 40mm PST, FL 400mm, 10mm eyepiece, 40X Pastels and Conte on black card. Bray Co Wicklow Ireland The image of the Sun below was taken at the same time as Deirdre’s sketch by cameras on NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), an orbiting space telescope that watches the Sun continuously in multiple frequencies. -RJT AR2546 is very large, and the region has let off several C-class flares. Please Welcome our new Blogger: Deirdre Kelleghan! Deirdre is a well-known amateur astronomer in Ireland. She loves sketching astronomical objects, and doing astronomy outreach with children. -RJT.

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Fr. James Kurzynski July 13, 2020 at 1:46 pm on Capturing the Not-So-Otherworldly Mysticism of John Muir and Pope FrancisGreat response Guy! And stay safe! Arizona is such a Covid-19 firestorm right now. I'm glad to hear you're finding ways to decompress while staying safe! Keep imaging creation with your smartphone! It's amazing what those little things can do!
Br. Guy Consolmagno July 13, 2020 at 10:29 am on Capturing the Not-So-Otherworldly Mysticism of John Muir and Pope FrancisA wonderful lesson! When the virus crisis began, my friend the historian and SF writer Ada Palmer suggested on Twitter that we start posting something nice in our timelines to remind us of the good in the world, under the hashtag #SomethingBeautiful so I started digging through my old photos…...
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Richard Saam July 9, 2020 at 8:21 am on Getting to Know a Neutron Star: How Heavy Can They Be?In the context of LIGO, there are some additional interesting reported results in terms of 40 Hz oscillations of the instrument's 40 kg mirrors due to virtual vacuum fluctuations: Quantum correlations between the light and kilogram-mass mirrors of LIGO https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01519 Does this result imply that virtual vacuum fluctuations are not...
Fr. James Kurzynski July 2, 2020 at 5:40 am on The Not-So-Otherworldly Mysticism of John Muir and Pope FrancisLeonard my dear friend! Thank you so much for your response! It's good to hear from you. I'll check out your link. Lets reconnect. It's been far too long!
Leonard Garcia July 1, 2020 at 7:05 pm on The Not-So-Otherworldly Mysticism of John Muir and Pope FrancisDear Fr. James, Thank you for this great article. Thank you for speaking of the goodness of the created world leading us to a Catholic sacramental worldview. I especially liked your description of how in your prayerful desert experience you became more and not less aware of the natural world...
Br. Guy Consolmagno June 23, 2020 at 8:46 am on Specola Guestbook | A few reflectionsThe story begins in the late 1990s when this grad student would regularly meet up with me at the annual Lunar and Planetary Science meeting in Houston to go out to lunch. I though he was interested in my science; turns out, he was interested in my vocation. Once he...
Robert Macke June 22, 2020 at 1:47 am on Specola Guestbook | A few reflectionsThat's a bit of a long story. I may find time to tell it on the blog some day. The short version is, that summer was what got me into studying meteorites, led to my PhD work, and also started my trajectory toward being eventually assigned to the Vatican Observatory....
Robert Macke June 22, 2020 at 1:45 am on Specola Guestbook | May 23, 1914: Giovanni SilvaI hadn't thought about it in those terms, but you are right. It's quite an accomplishment.
Bob Prokop June 21, 2020 at 5:12 am on Specola Guestbook | May 23, 1914: Giovanni SilvaI'm always astonished when I read about things such as a major observatory being built in the middle of the Second World War - and in Italy, of all places!
Christopher M. Graney June 15, 2020 at 11:11 am on Specola Guestbook | A few reflectionsSo tell us the story of you signing the book in 2004. Your readers want to know! :)
Deirdre Kelleghan June 12, 2020 at 6:24 am on Action Sun MemoriesThank you for your positive comment. I believe art / drawing/ making/ doing/ has a big role to play in learning. Deirdre
Fernando Comeron June 2, 2020 at 9:48 am on In the Sky This Week – June 2, 2020Adding to Karl Battams' tweet on sungrazing comets discovered with SOHO, you can see the demise of one of them, happening less than two days ago, in the LASCO movie a few lines above. Look carefully at the sequence of images near the end of 31 May, and you will...
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Joseph Listerman June 1, 2020 at 4:52 am on ⓜ Announcing the Full Moon Meetup!Exciting, will definitely try and make it!
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Bob Prokop May 26, 2020 at 10:48 am on In the Sky This Week – May 26, 2020Thanks to your heads up, I went out yesterday to some athletic fields near my home that had an unobstructed western horizon. I spotted Mercury (through binoculars)at 8:12 PM, but mistook it for Venus. So I kept scanning the skies between it and the Moon, looking for Mercury. By 8:30,...
Katie Steinke May 25, 2020 at 4:09 pm on The Great Debate of 1920HI Bob! I am late with this comment but wanted to make sure you know how much I appreciated your article - at least the parts I understood.... As a volunteer now at Mt Wilson Observatory (folding t-shirts mostly) I have learned a bit about the Debate and Hubble. Thanks...
Fernando Comeron May 23, 2020 at 4:58 pm on You-Know-Who, the Coronavirus, and Science Denial HypocrisyThoughtful and brilliant. Thanks a lot!
Richard Gabrielson May 23, 2020 at 7:34 am on You-Know-Who, the Coronavirus, and Science Denial HypocrisyI think science deniers and "new atheists" use very similar methodology. The anti-authoritarian thread is in itself hypocritical, since it's really just an exchange of one authority for another. Another factor is assigning ulterior motives to the authority one rejects. Borrowing from Chesterton, it seems that now science, like religion,...

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