13:00:55 From Maureen Hintz : Maureen from Utah. 13:00:55 From Dillon Connelly (he/they) : Hey everyone I'm Dillon Connelly from SSI. I was at a small natural history museum for the 2017 eclipse and my biggest memory is how huge the event got! We expected maybe fifty folks and got several hundred. It was a great time 13:01:14 From Tom Campbell : I'm a NASA Solar System Ambassador in College Station, TX and for the 2017 eclipse, I drove 750 miles to see it, only to get rained out, but at least I could see Baily's Beads naked eye through the clouds 13:01:16 From Nicholas Scott : I’m Nic Scott (Telescope Systems Scientist at the CHARA Array, AstroAmbassador). For the 2017 eclipse I viewed it from the top of a mountain in Oregon, watching the shadow approach on the ground was fantastic. 13:01:24 From Dennis Schatz : Great time near Bend Oregon 13:01:38 From Francine Jackson : Francine Jackson, Staff Astronomer, Brown University, being on top of Fred's Mountain with everyone cheering. 13:01:40 From tish bresee : Hello - this is Tish Bresee in Binghamton, NY...in 2017 we were surprised to have 1500 people at the Observatory. 13:01:53 From Patrick Kilian : I'm Patrick Kilian from SSI. I didn't actually see the 2017 eclipse because I was in South Africa at that time. But I have seen a previous total eclipse. 13:02:06 From Maureen Hintz : I saw the eclipse in Wyoming too! I was amazed at the sunset sky all around the horizon. 13:02:30 From Cris DeWolf : Hello. I’m Cris from Michigan. I teach high school astronomy and Earth & Space Science. We traveled to Nebraska to view totality in 2017 with my wife and a group of friends. 13:02:33 From Angela Speck : Hi everyone - I'm Angela - I have been the co-chair the AAS Solar Eclipse taskforce since 2014. I witnessed the 2017 eclipse from a rooftop bar in Columbia MO where I was broadcasting live on the local ABC station 13:02:37 From Andrew Fraknoi : Dennis and I slept over in a Church in Oregon, which let us stay there in exchange for doing a program for the congregation just before the eclipse. 13:02:50 From Angela Speck : Reacted to "Dennis and I slept o..." with ❤️ 13:04:07 From Jaime Harold : What FB gave me as an eclipse memory. Accurate. 13:05:09 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Reacted to "Dennis and I slept o..." with ❤️ 13:05:17 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Reacted to "Hi everyone - I'm An..." with 😮 13:06:36 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Reacted to "Francine Jackson, St..." with ❤️ 13:07:03 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Reacted to "{9F9C94DA-9FED-4EA0-AC49-6727C61167BE}.png" with 😂 13:07:49 From Derek Wallentinsen : Hola de Albuquerque! 13:08:38 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Replying to "Hola de Albuquerque!" Many of us from the Space Science Institute will be traveling to Albuquerque for the annular eclipse in October! 13:08:50 From erika rivera : Reacted to "Many of us from the ..." with ❤️ 13:09:02 From Angela Speck (she/her/ella) : Reacted to "{426bda13-b643-4280-a77f-6d310af62a8b}.jpg" with 😂 13:09:04 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Reacted to "{426bda13-b643-4280-a77f-6d310af62a8b}.jpg" with 😂 13:09:10 From Angela Speck (she/her/ella) : Reacted to "Many of us from the ..." with ❤️ 13:09:17 From Chris Sirola : Cool Mars moon images 13:09:47 From Mel Abler : Is there somewhere we can download a copy of that eclipse poster? 13:09:58 From Patrick Kilian : I want a print of it! 13:10:03 From Sheila Kannappan : Reacted to "{426bda13-b643-4280-a77f-6d310af62a8b}.jpg" with 😂 13:10:06 From Shelly Munoz : Reacted to "Is there somewhere w..." with 👍 13:10:08 From Ken Brandt : Don't Io, Europa's shadow across Jupiter show the total eclipse setup? 13:10:15 From Mel Abler : Reacted to "I want a print of it..." with 💯 13:10:30 From Derek Wallentinsen : greatamericaneclipse.com for posters. 13:10:39 From Mel Abler : Reacted to "greatamericaneclipse..." with 👍🏻 13:10:50 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Reacted to "greatamericaneclipse..." with 👍🏻 13:11:24 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Thanks, Derek, I will add that to our resource list! Here is a list of all of the links to the resources Andy and Dennis will be covering today: https://community.starnetlibraries.org/seal-eclipse-experts-resources/ 13:11:57 From Dawn Davies : Dawn Davies from Austin, Texas. I am a Science Communicator and founder of Earthbound Astronomer. In my daytime job I am the Night Sky Manager and lead the Hill Country Eclipse Team for Hill Country Alliance. Every aspect of seeing the 2017 total solar eclipse from Casper, Wyoming was memorable. 13:12:18 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Reacted to "Dawn Davies from Aus..." with ❤️ 13:12:28 From Derek Wallentinsen : This is also a great resource page: https://eclipse.aas.org/resources 13:12:32 From Dawn Davies : Reacted to "Dawn Davies from Aus…" with ❤️ 13:12:34 From Dawn Davies : Removed a ❤️ reaction from "Dawn Davies from Aus…" 13:12:38 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Reacted to "This is also a great..." with 👍 13:17:26 From Derek Wallentinsen : Filtered unaided eye spot right now! 13:17:28 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Here is a list of all of the links to the resources Andy and Dennis will be covering today: https://community.starnetlibraries.org/seal-eclipse-experts-resources/ 13:19:53 From Sky Reid-Mills : 👋 13:19:59 From Sky Reid-Mills : sreidmills@spacescience.org 13:20:06 From Dawn Davies : Reacted to "sreidmills@spacescie…" with 👋 13:20:13 From Mel Abler : Reacted to "sreidmills@spacescie..." with 👋 13:21:42 From Jaime Harold : @Ken: yes, the gas giants can get total solar eclipses (big moons, sun very small in the sky). I think Andy's comment was that our moon is interesting because it's almost exactly the same size in the sky as the sun (varying a bit due to its orbit). The Sun is about 400x bigger than the moon, and 400x farther away. For now, anyway. :-) 13:22:48 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Reacted to "@Ken: yes, the gas g..." with 👍 13:24:31 From Chris Sirola : Big moons of gas giants might yield occultations more than eclipses... I haven't done the math to check 13:25:19 From Kristina Collins : Reacted to "@Ken: yes, the gas g..." with 👍 13:26:11 From Sheila Kannappan : Is this being recorded? Dillon is going way too fast for me to be able to find the pages he's talking about. 13:26:28 From Dennis Schatz : Yes, it is being recorded 13:26:30 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Yes this is being recorded 13:26:59 From Dennis Schatz : The instructions are also in the materials you received from Sky 13:27:06 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : We will share the recording and the presentation sides, as well as the chat transcript, after the meeting 13:27:19 From Alice Few : Dillon, if we have a library that has contacted us but is NOT on the list, where do they sign up? 13:27:48 From Alice Few : Reacted to "Dillon, if we have a..." with 😎 13:27:50 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Interested libraries can register here: https://www.starnetlibraries.org/about/our-projects/solar-eclipse-activities-libraries-seal/ 13:28:37 From Sheila Kannappan : Is there a direct link to that spreadsheet? 13:29:41 From Andrew Fraknoi : If your library wants to sign up, they can go to: http://bit.ly/glassesforlibraries 13:30:02 From Dillon Connelly (he/they) : Replying to "Is there a direct li..." Sheila the link is only available on the private Community Group because it contains sensitive contact information 13:31:57 From Andrew Fraknoi : The key thing to remember in finding the spreadsheet of libraries that is not intuitive is that when you are in the group, you need to click DISCUSSIONS to find the link to the spreadsheet. 13:33:17 From Sheila Kannappan : Replying to "Is there a direct li..." Can you quickly summarize how you got to the private Community group? I am logged in and here: https://community.starnetlibraries.org/seal-eclipse-experts-resources/ 13:33:43 From Katherine Auld : I’m helping our libraries acquire solar filters for their library telescopes. 13:33:57 From Dillon Connelly (he/they) : Reacted to "I’m helping our libr..." with ❤️ 13:34:01 From Derek Wallentinsen : Very well done - I quickly see the 16 libraries participating in NM! I just participated Tues with Los Lunas Public Library with The Albuquerque Astronomical Society and Ronda Sanchez. 13:34:11 From Ken Brandt : lots of pre eclipse workshops 13:34:13 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Replying to "Is there a direct li..." Sheila, here is the link to log into the community: https://community.starnetlibraries.org/ 13:34:33 From Lisa Will : I need to spread the word that San Diego has a deeper eclipse in October than April. 13:34:33 From Christopher Mentrek : I'm working with a library on some pre-eclipse workshops to make Sun-projecting devices. 13:34:37 From Chris Sirola : Contact local schools and community groups well in advance... we have a local retiree organization where people can teach seminars. But their window for putting seminars on their fall schedule has already closed. 13:34:41 From Sheila Kannappan : Replying to "Is there a direct li..." Thanks, found it 13:34:59 From tish bresee : start with an intro presentation, make a funnel for viewing with a small telescope 13:34:59 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Reacted to "Thanks, found it" with 👍 13:35:00 From Ken Brandt : training in ways to view the partial (colanders, trees, etc.) 13:35:02 From Alice Few : One of the big hits from our last set of work shops was showing kids how to project the eclipse if they don't have glasses 13:35:09 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Reacted to "I need to spread the..." with ❤️ 13:35:12 From Maureen Hintz : I am writing a planetarium show discussing the eclipses and safe solar observing. I will host a viewing party for the librarians to come, get instructed and meet me. 13:35:30 From Angela Speck (she/her/ella) : We are already working to set up sessionsd with SAPL (San Antonio) which has 27 branches. We are prioritizing by equity score - but hope to visit every branch with the Yradstick and spectroscopy demos 13:35:30 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Reacted to "training in ways to ..." with ❤️ 13:35:38 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Reacted to "One of the big hits ..." with ❤️ 13:35:39 From Nicholas Scott : I was invited to give talks on astronomy research, followed by eclipse activities/safety info. I plan to demonstrate the types of eclipses and how to build viewers 13:36:03 From Christopher Mentrek : We're also making a pre-eclipse presentation on eclipse history. We're hoping that will be a big hit with senior groups / nursing home visits. 13:36:05 From PJ Godwin : In 2017 I organized a viewing for my entire school. There are many 3D printer files that make viewing devices. Some schools and libraries have access to 3D printers. 13:36:10 From tish bresee : Can we get some post cards with hole punched like 2017 13:36:12 From Lisa Will : Reach out to offer training to libraries and local museums about how to observe safely. 13:36:25 From Dawn Davies : I have recently learned how to assemble and program the Lightsound devices for the visually impaired. I plan to partner with our local library to use their 3D printing lab to create the cases in exchange for providing the library system with a collection of devices that can be checked out. 13:36:26 From Ken Brandt : virtual trainings for my online students to become trainers as well 13:36:33 From Chris Sirola : Collanders are useful if you're looking for items people already have to safely observe eclipses 13:36:38 From Derek Wallentinsen : Frozen pizza trays can be used as pinhole projectors and you can make pattern masks for them too! 13:36:46 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Reacted to "Frozen pizza trays c..." with ❤️ 13:37:02 From Derek Wallentinsen : PUNCH - have a few and I have given away a few of them. 13:37:10 From Dawn Davies : Reacted to "PUNCH - have a few a…" with 👍 13:37:28 From Angela Speck (she/her/ella) : Reacted to "I have recently lear..." with ❤️ 13:37:40 From Chris Sirola : Local radio and TV stations (maybe even local podcasts) might be interested in spreading the news. They will usually broadcast within a week or so of the eclipse 13:38:03 From Maureen Hintz : I attended the PUNCH field trip at AAS in New Mexico. They have an active outreach program with ideas for other solar activities. 13:38:20 From Dillon Connelly (he/they) : We also have a whole collection of solar science and eclipse activities on our STEM Activity Clearinghouse including guides on how to create solar viewers from any cereal or shipping box: https://clearinghouse.starnetlibraries.org/180-solar-eclipse-activities-for-libraries 13:38:22 From Alice Few : We also incorporated invisible light and use UV reactive beads. 13:38:58 From Dawn Davies : Reacted to "We also incorporated…" with ❤️ 13:39:08 From Dawn Davies : Tomorrow I have a opportunity to talk with one of our local news outlet about the eclipse and out in front of our central library! 13:39:21 From Chris Sirola : Recruit others... for those of us who are college teachers, we may be able to get students to help 13:39:35 From Dawn Davies : Reacted to "Recruit others... fo…" with 👍 13:39:37 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Reacted to "Tomorrow I have a op..." with ❤️ 13:39:37 From Chris Sirola : Our local zoo has collaborated with us in the past re astronomy 13:39:45 From Ken Brandt : Solar system Ambassadors, as well 13:40:13 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Reacted to "Solar system Ambassa..." with 👍 13:40:22 From Derek Wallentinsen : Reacted to "Solar system Ambassa..." with 👍 13:40:40 From Derek Wallentinsen : NASA ASP Eclipse Ambassadors too! 13:40:52 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Reacted to "NASA ASP Eclipse Amb..." with 👍 13:41:01 From Dawn Davies : Reacted to "NASA ASP Eclipse Amb…" with 👍 13:41:20 From Angela Speck (she/her/ella) : Reacted to "Our local zoo has co..." with ❤️ 13:42:21 From Chris Sirola : A few of us are already university astronomers! 13:42:29 From Dawn Davies : Reacted to "A few of us are alre…" with 👍 13:42:29 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : SEAL Eclipse Guide: https://www.starnetlibraries.org/2020/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/SEAL-booklet-web-2.pdf 13:42:35 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Reacted to "A few of us are alre..." with ❤️ 13:42:53 From Maureen Hintz : Do the libraries have our names? 13:42:58 From Sheila Kannappan : how can people who live too far from the eclipse to travel to it participate -- is NASA/some other org organizing a video feed from anywhere? 13:43:09 From erika rivera : Reacted to "Do the libraries hav..." with 👍🏼 13:43:41 From tish bresee : How do we get a small telescope with a funnel? 13:43:58 From Katherine Auld : Yes. Need to know about a feed for if cloudy. 13:44:01 From Chris Sirola : If you're hosting a big event, it may help to have a speaker system... I was fortunate in 2017 to have a large field of about 2000 people in attendance. I'm loud, but a microphone and speaker system made it possible to talk to everyone. 13:44:07 From Andrew Fraknoi : Sheila: NASA and the Exploratorium are doing live stream of the eclipses. 13:44:47 From Mahendra Thapa : Reacted to "Sheila: NASA and the..." with 👍 13:44:51 From Angela Speck (she/her/ella) : Reacted to "Sheila: NASA and the..." with 👍 13:44:54 From Sheila Kannappan : Reacted to "Sheila: NASA and the..." with 👍 13:45:07 From Cris DeWolf : https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/make-sun-funnel 13:45:22 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Reacted to "If you're hosting a ..." with 👍 13:46:03 From Ken Brandt : How to distribute glasses equitably. 13:46:09 From Xueling Shi : After we identify a local library, shall we contact the librarian directly to discuss any activity? 13:46:36 From Dawn Davies : Reacted to "Sheila: NASA and the…" with 👍 13:48:03 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Replying to "After we identify a ..." Yes, if you are comfortable doing that then go right ahead! We are always happy to help support your collaborations with the libraries as well, you can email me directly for support at cratcliffe@spacescience.org 13:48:37 From Chris Sirola : It also helps to be a presence at the library... I take my autistic son to our local library every Saturday, so they already know me 13:48:40 From Xueling Shi : Replying to "After we identify a ..." Thank you. Will do. 13:48:54 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Reacted to "It also helps to be ..." with ❤️ 13:49:42 From Maureen Hintz : Reacted to "It also helps to be ..." with ❤️ 13:50:13 From Angela Speck (she/her/ella) : microphone is best practice anyway 13:50:17 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Reacted to "microphone is best p..." with 👍 13:50:18 From Xueling Shi : Replying to "It also helps to be ..." The same here, excited to see the local library that our family goes regularly is in the spreadsheet. 13:50:19 From Jana Grcevich : Reacted to "microphone is best p…" with 👍 13:50:33 From Derek Wallentinsen : Dennis, great reminder for everyone! 13:50:42 From Dawn Davies : Reacted to "It also helps to be …" with ❤️ 13:51:26 From Angela Speck (she/her/ella) : One thing we are exploring is preparing "new" experts (mostly grad students) who look like the local community 13:51:40 From Dawn Davies : Reacted to "One thing we are exp…" with ❤️ 13:52:14 From Dennis Schatz : Reacted to "One thing we are exp..." with 👍 13:52:17 From Lisa Will : Reacted to "One thing we are exp..." with ❤️ 13:52:20 From erika rivera : Reacted to "One thing we are exp..." with ❤️ 13:52:32 From Mahendra Thapa : Reacted to "One thing we are exp..." with 👍 13:54:05 From Angela Speck (she/her/ella) : we have also discussed with one of the local school districts to prep the kids to be the "experts" for the annular eclipse. The schools will host weekend events and the kids will host their families 13:54:08 From Lisa Will : Community colleges also tend to have very strong community outreach programs. I’m going to offer to train our outreach folks so they can go into K-12. 13:55:27 From Francine Jackson : I belong to my state's library association, and sent an email to it; already seven libraries have contacted me in one day. 13:55:30 From Andrew Fraknoi : Many of you have eclipse talks that you are comfortable doing, but if you are a beginner to doing a public lecture, you can see one example of a talk I did on Zoom for a public access TV show: http://bit.ly/AFeclipsetalk 13:55:38 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Reacted to "I belong to my state..." with 😮 13:55:39 From Derek Wallentinsen : YEs, that's the NASA ASP Eclipse Ambassadors program. https://astrosociety.org/education-outreach/amateur-astronomers/eclipse-ambassadors/program.html 13:55:46 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Reacted to "YEs, that's the NASA..." with 👍 13:55:57 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Reacted to "Many of you have ecl..." with 👍 13:56:00 From Dawn Davies : Reacted to "Many of you have ecl…" with 👍 13:56:19 From Dillon Connelly (he/they) : If you're interested in finding out more about what else is going on in the SEAL project we have all our past SEAL webinars we've held with librarians on this playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvQkYyArNCy1LlkxfGGE2PNBRKbIC9GoW 13:56:23 From Angela Speck (she/her/ella) : I am happy to share my slides and videos too 13:56:27 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Reacted to "I am happy to share ..." with 👍 13:56:49 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : That would be great, Angela! Can you please email them to me; I will add them to the resource list 13:56:54 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : cratcliffe@spacescience.org 13:57:20 From Lisa Will : I’d love to see your presentation, Angela. lwill@sdccd.edu 13:57:37 From Lisa Will : Or I can wait till it shows up here. Thanks! 13:58:30 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Reacted to "If you're interested..." with 👍 13:59:00 From Dawn Davies : Are there preferred hashtags you would like us to use when posting to social media about activities related to our work here? 13:59:23 From Dillon Connelly (he/they) : I have an appointment in a couple minutes I need to run off to so I have to take off. Glad to have you all on board and thanks for signing up! 13:59:33 From Lisa Will : Reacted to "Are there preferred ..." with 👍 13:59:33 From Dawn Davies : Reacted to "I have an appointmen…" with 👍 14:00:13 From Sheila Kannappan : Are you interested in reports on our outreach to schools and other non-library orga? 14:00:13 From Francine Jackson : Thank you. 14:00:16 From Sheila Kannappan : orgs 14:00:21 From Xueling Shi : Thank you. 14:00:23 From Shelly Munoz : Thank you! 14:00:28 From Lisa Will : Thank you! 14:00:32 From Cris DeWolf : Thank you 14:00:34 From Christopher Mentrek : Thanks for hosting this! 14:00:58 From Claire Ratcliffe Adams (she, her) : Replying to "Are there preferred ..." Not at this time!