STAR Net Community | Andrea Warkentin | Activity https://community.starnetlibraries.org/members/awark/activity/ Activity feed for Andrea Warkentin. Tue, 05 May 2026 15:10:00 -0600 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.20.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 e4143a5c868c56a11bf04bc0ed2c69ce Andrea Warkentin posted an update: Disco balls projecting the sun https://community.starnetlibraries.org/news-feed/p/57522/ Fri, 05 Apr 2024 17:46:25 -0600 Disco balls projecting the sun

]]> 0 17ef3501fbaca4c4aee91e579978e66c Andrea Warkentin posted an update: Here is a video about using a disco ball to project a […] https://community.starnetlibraries.org/news-feed/p/57521/ Fri, 05 Apr 2024 17:45:31 -0600 Here is a video about using a disco ball to project a solar eclipse. Cheap, easy, fun!

I have links to more info in previous posts–search if you’re interested.

I believe an NPR piece is coming out soon about this way of viewing eclipses.

https://youtu.be/BOapAxaPeZI?si=2n3EdvgdbD_W2C7i

]]> 0 62e510438c98b11a63bb1e6e5688a9b7 Andrea Warkentin posted a new activity comment https://community.starnetlibraries.org/news-feed/p/56287/#acomment-56323 Fri, 26 Jan 2024 15:34:45 -0700 Hi from Round Rock, Texas! Welcome to the fun! RRPL did big programming around the 2017 and 2023 eclipses, so email me if you have questions about getting started. This group is probably all you’ll need–amazing!–but if you want to chat on the side, lmk– awarkentin@roundrocktexas.gov

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Hello! I am located in Central Texas (Luling, to be exact) and am excited to become a part of this program! We are so thankful to be receiving the solar glasses to share with […]

]]> 5c80ddbcca3224737330a30a8968e084 Andrea Warkentin posted a new activity comment https://community.starnetlibraries.org/news-feed/p/54893/#acomment-54897 Wed, 06 Dec 2023 22:02:58 -0700

If you would like to use a disco ball for the next eclipse and help generate data, I’ll let you know how to contact the research team. (I’m going to check with the committee to see if I can post their contact info here).

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I was lucky enough to come across this article before the annular eclipse.

Doing Astronomy with Disco Balls | astrobites

I went and looked up the original paper (attached) and […]

]]> 2395bfbe37ec97f69c8ece0b9460102c Andrea Warkentin posted a new activity comment https://community.starnetlibraries.org/news-feed/p/54893/#acomment-54896 Wed, 06 Dec 2023 22:02:14 -0700 Here is the write-up like the one I submitted to the scientists for the paper. You’ll find the decisions we made, some photos of the setup, and my observations.

To me, the very best thing was everyone seeing the eclipse at the same time and KNOWING they were seeing it at the same time. I think there were more conversations than we saw when we…

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I was lucky enough to come across this article before the annular eclipse.

Doing Astronomy with Disco Balls | astrobites

I went and looked up the original paper (attached) and […]

]]> ad06c73c9687a35d3b45f65ef9a02d0f Andrea Warkentin posted a new activity comment https://community.starnetlibraries.org/news-feed/p/54893/#acomment-54894 Wed, 06 Dec 2023 21:28:55 -0700 Here are some photos that show our general set-up (large disco ball in a rooftop garden projecting images across the garden and also into the library building near the reference desk, plus a smaller disco ball inside a window on the next floor higher that projected images inside that floor and across to that floor’s reference desk). We wanted…

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I was lucky enough to come across this article before the annular eclipse.

Doing Astronomy with Disco Balls | astrobites

I went and looked up the original paper (attached) and […]

]]> 1617b2d693ca829f4b7b2097719500b9 Andrea Warkentin posted an update: I was lucky enough to come across this article before […] https://community.starnetlibraries.org/news-feed/p/54893/ Wed, 06 Dec 2023 21:23:22 -0700 I was lucky enough to come across this article before the annular eclipse.

Doing Astronomy with Disco Balls | astrobites

I went and looked up the original paper (attached) and it addressed my concerns, so I decided to try it. I’m so glad I did.

We set out two disco balls, and I want to share with this group the info I sent to the scientists…

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Doing Astronomy with Disco Balls

What would you think if you saw a disco ball on your visit to an observatory? Learn about why every observatory should have one in today’s bite!

]]> 3 8762b2f104294a741956a95ee6c8a1ae Andrea Warkentin posted a new activity comment https://community.starnetlibraries.org/explaining-eclipses-for-little-kids/#comment-64 Wed, 06 Dec 2023 21:11:07 -0700 799c17b8a914c7f136df6932704f8bdf Andrea Warkentin changed their profile photo https://community.starnetlibraries.org/news-feed/p/54620/ Thu, 19 Oct 2023 17:32:28 -0600 0 7c910dab7cf5236f2ebf7e9bc9c66aae Andrea Warkentin posted a new activity comment https://community.starnetlibraries.org/news-feed/p/51858/#acomment-51888 Thu, 13 Jul 2023 16:09:24 -0600 Tom, these activities look like so much fun! Any chance of you telling us a bit more about them?

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