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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. Jeffrey Madley September 14, 2020 at 12:16 pm on The Mystery of the Universe – Exploring Pope Francis’ Spiritual Vision of Creation in Laudato Si’Nice commentary on Laudato Si, Fr. Jim. We definitely need the Pope's new encyclical these days. Good work.
Fr. Timothy Sauppé September 14, 2020 at 3:52 am on North by NorthwestBeautiful. Thank you for sharing. Love over the stars.
Joel Hopko September 12, 2020 at 10:47 am on ⓜ Science and humilityAmen. The signature of health in science and religion. Thanks for your work in both realms. -- Joel
Br. Guy Consolmagno September 12, 2020 at 7:58 am on ⓜ Science and humilityExactly. The key to both science and faith is to combine both the ability to say “I don’t know” with the confidence to say, “but I can find out.” As we learn more, we also learn how much more there is to learn; but that can only happen if we...
Ed Yepez September 12, 2020 at 7:31 am on Astronomy in Art & Architecture: Look Down and see the SkyAztec Calendar! Pyramids of the Sun, and Moon. Yes, "Mexican" food is my weakness too!
Joel Hopko September 11, 2020 at 9:28 am on ⓜ Science and humilityBr. Guy -- Just had the chance to read this. I think the history of science provides a very apt metaphor -- in several ways -- for considering our faith heritage. Like science we have certain core insights which can provide us "operating assumptions." Like science these insights have been...
Joel Hopko September 10, 2020 at 8:14 am on Fear, Isolation, and CalendarsBr. Guy -- Thanks for drawing the wonderful connection between your scientific vocation and our basic human emotions. Just hearing an honest accounting is somehow simultaneously soothing and encouraging in these apocalyptic times. One of the must distressing aspects of 2020 is that even our bedrock assumptions of what is...
Christopher M. Graney September 9, 2020 at 3:27 pm on The Origin of the Origin of LifeIn this case, the fact is (as Khan did keep saying) "we don't know". I suspect that not knowing leaves a lot of room for old ideas to stick around, maybe in ways we scientists do not realize even as we are working on them. As many times as I...
Bob Prokop September 6, 2020 at 5:30 am on Specola Guestbook | April 13-28, 1922: IAU 1st General Assembly part 1 – Aitken, Curtis, van Steenwijk, Cortie, and SteinScanning that sea of "old white men" in the picture, I was surprised (and pleased) to see the faces of at least five women amongst them. I hope they signed the guest book!
Fr. Timothy Sauppé September 5, 2020 at 7:51 am on The Origin of the Origin of LifeShould be .....Tohu wa-bohu.
Fr. Bruce Wilkinson September 5, 2020 at 7:34 am on The Origin of the Origin of LifeI find it to be fascinating that “modern ideas” can often be discovered in ancient, historic thinking and philosophical reflection. Sometimes maybe we modern folks are really only attempting to dot the “i” and cross the “t”.
Fr. Timothy Sauppé September 5, 2020 at 6:28 am on The Origin of the Origin of LifeHmmm. It sounds awfully like something I have read before. Maybe, Diodorus Sidulus is rifting off Tohu wabuho?
Fr. James Kurzynski September 3, 2020 at 4:53 am on The Readiness Is All: Faith, Science, Sports, and OSIRIS-RExPowerful passage! Thanks for sharing it!
Bob Prokop August 31, 2020 at 9:22 am on The Readiness Is All: Faith, Science, Sports, and OSIRIS-RExCharles Williams (the "Third Inkling", alongside Tolkien and C.S. Lewis) wrote something rather apropos in his book Taliessin Through Logres, where the king's poet and field commander appears to be delaying overlong to order a vital counterattack at Mount Badon. A knight nearby criticizes Taliessin calmly observing the slaughter around...
Christopher M. Graney August 28, 2020 at 5:42 am on Talking to Your Dog… or to E.T.I think Artificial Intelligence tends to be a lot more 'Artificial' than intelligent. You know that the infamous sentient HAL 9000 computer was supposed to have been built in the 1990s. That is always a thing that is some distance down the road. I'm sort of irked that I can't...
Bob Trembley August 27, 2020 at 7:52 am on Talking to Your Dog… or to E.T.I have listened to *countless* science fiction novels recently that have Artificial Intelligence as a significant plot device. Usually the AIs are evolved from human research and development, or remnants of some long-lost alien civilization. Attitudes of these AIs range from friendly (to the point of being annoying) to outright...
Marion Burry August 25, 2020 at 10:50 am on In the Sky This Week – August 25, 2020Praying for a quick recovery for Connie.
Fr. James Kurzynski August 24, 2020 at 4:17 pm on Care for Creation and Contemplation of Creation – Deepening these New (Old) Works of MercyThank you Stan! And thank you for reminding me of the connection with the daytime stars. Force of habit when I spend a lot of time in the dark!
Stan Sienkiewicz August 24, 2020 at 10:38 am on Care for Creation and Contemplation of Creation – Deepening these New (Old) Works of MercyDear Fr. Kurzynski, That was a wonderful post and a very good YouTube video. I can't agree with you more about how Genesis points to the amazing creation of the stars. Abraham, not being able to see the stars as its still daytime, earns that title of Father of Faith...
Fr. Bruce Wilkinson August 21, 2020 at 7:18 am on ⓜ Pluto and the priesthood of scienceThanks, Br. Guy. You bring some real clarity to a very misunderstood process in the field of astronomy. Too many people look for a real simple explanation when only a more complex understanding is best.

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