STEM Ed Announcement: SUNWHEEL EVENTS & SKYWATCHING

["Mort Sternheim" <mort@k12s.phast.umass.edu>]

This is a UMass Program.
 Contact information is below
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 SUNWHEEL EVENTS & SKYWATCHING -- DECEMBER 2010
 
 1)  WINTER SOLSTICE SUNRISE & SUNSET GATHERINGS at the U.MASS. SUNWHEEL
           Tuesday Dec. 21 at 7:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. EST
 For more information see
      http://www.astro.umass.edu/~young/gatherwinter.html
 To hear a podcast airing on Dec. 16 entitled
      "Celebrating the Light of Solstice", see  
 http://365daysofastronomy.org/calendar
 
 2)  Total Lunar Eclipse and Full Moon -- early morning hours Dec. 21,
 2010:
 The eclipse is visible in its entirety from North America.  Totality  
 lasts from 2:41 to 3:53 a.m.  For detailed eclipse information, visit
      http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse.html
 
 3)  SOUTHERNMOST MOON (New Moon near Solstice, not visible) -- Dec. 6,
 2010
      NORTHERNMOST MOON (Full Moon @ Solstice) -- Dec. 21, 2010:  The  
 Full Moon on 12/21 will set over the Sunwheel's Summer Solstice sunset  
 stone at 7 a.m.  Come to the Sunwheel to see this and find out why.
 For more information on Moonwatching, see
 http://www.astro.umass.edu/~young/moonwatch.html
 http://www.umass.edu/sunwheel/pages/moonteaching.html
 http://www.umass.edu/sunwheel/pages/moontable2008.html
 
 4)  TEACHERS -- earn certificates of participation when
 you attend the seasonal sunrise and sunset gatherings at
 the Sunwheel.  For more information, see
 http://www.astro.umass.edu/~young/pdp.html
 
 
 
 
 "I'll tell you how the Sun rose a ribbon at a time."
                 -- Emily Dickinson
 
 "Life is complicated enough without dragging in the nebulae."
                 -- from 'Boeing, Boeing'
 
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 *  Judith Young, Ph.D.                          *
 *  Professor, Dept. of Astronomy                *
 *  620 Tower B Graduate Research Center         *
 *  University of Massachusetts                  *
 *  Amherst, MA  01003                           *
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 *  413-549-5139                                 *
 *  413-545-4223 (FAX)                           *
 *  http://www.umass.edu/sunwheel                *
 *  http://www.astro.umass.edu/~young            *
 *  http://www.astronomyandspirituality.com      *
 *  http://livingjoyfullywithwhatis.blogspot.com *
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