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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 →

Sun Pillar – Sun Drawing Ireland

Posted on May 25, 2018 by Deirdre KelleghanMay 27, 2018

We had a winter of record winds, freezing temperatures and darkness. However this week, it seems the summer has finally arrived in Ireland. On May 21st I noticed a developing sun pillar on the horizon. As it progressed I took several images, each equally beautiful. The pillar of light interacted with the sky and the sea, altering colour and bringing drama as it peaked and faded after sun set. Beautiful to watch, it seemed to pierce the clouds just above the suns departure point. Sun pillars are shafts of sunlight glinting off ice crystals in our atmosphere. This phenomenon is explained well here on this wonderful site Atmospheric Optics On May 23rd the sun offered an active region for drawing. OK now the atmosphere was not the steadiest I have ever seen, but it was hot and the sky was blue. The active region was small and complex, the challenge to draw the sun in h-alpha with my … Continue reading →

Joel Hopko August 6, 2020 at 9:23 am on ⓜ Science and miraclesThanks for the references I will follow up. Joel
Br. Guy Consolmagno August 6, 2020 at 7:59 am on ⓜ Science and humilityYes, exactly! Which is to say, it’s why we don’t try to do science entirely on our own. I am reminded of an old American folksong (I am of the folkie generation) that had a line about “finding Jesus on your own,” which sounded to my ears much like trying...
Br. Guy Consolmagno August 6, 2020 at 7:56 am on ⓜ Science and miraclesThanks for the kind words! Back in the 1990s, the Vatican Observatory and the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences sponsored a series of workshops with theologians and scientists on the general topic of “Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action” and the 1999 conference was on Neuroscience and the Person...
Joel Hopko August 6, 2020 at 6:47 am on ⓜ Science and miraclesBr. Guy -- Wonderful summary and meditation. It seems to me that the interaction of consciousness and quantum phenomena -- while not even minimally understood -- bears much interest for the cognitive scientist, the epistemologist and the mystic. I look forward to many such discussions. Joel
Richard Gabrielson August 4, 2020 at 7:40 pm on ⓜ Science and humility"That’s why you constantly test your ideas with experiments, and then test your experiments with better theories." Yes, and that's why we submit our ideas, theories and results to peer review!
Stan Sienkiewicz August 3, 2020 at 7:01 pm on ⓜ The August Full Moon Meetup!Please tell Fr. Jean-Baptiste Kikwaya Eluo it was a pleasure meeting him today at our Full Moon Meetup. I learned a great deal about the way of classifications. Also, his remarks about Parish support was wonderful to hear as a lay person. He minded me very much of my dear...
Joel Hopko July 25, 2020 at 9:02 am on Frye Fire: VATT Damage Assessment on June 27Fr. Paul -- I just read your account and only now realize what a close call our VATT had! I'm so relieved. I was interested to learn that you were born in Kosice. I have relatives from there and even some old letters from a Maria Yevicka to from my...
Christopher M. Graney July 20, 2020 at 6:51 am on Where to Turn? Religion, science, and the direction of MeccaThanks for the comment. "Putting one against the other" is not the idea here, or at least that does not seem the case to me.
John Lupia July 19, 2020 at 6:11 am on No safe distancing!Pareiodolia is seeing familiar images in stains like Leonardo da Vinci who wrote about his love and fascination with this as a pass time and perhaps inspire him to create his own. The late Ray Rogers, a former NASA chemist with whom I enjoyed many exchanges working on a project...
John Lupia July 18, 2020 at 7:43 am on Where to Turn? Religion, science, and the direction of MeccaBifurcation is taking thought in two directions which may or may not be associated to each other in a modal fallacy of logic. Science vs. religion is the classic foolscap award position. All truth is one. There is. No division. That was the purpose of founding the Vatican Observatory to...
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…...
Dr. Brenda Frye July 12, 2020 at 10:58 am on Getting to Know a Neutron Star: How Heavy Can They Be?What a great question! I am not a quantum physicist, but will do my best to answer your question. Regarding the paper you asked about (https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01519), their objective is to designate a new source of noise in the LIGO instrumentation. I would say, No, their result does not imply that...
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!

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