{"id":2998,"date":"2023-07-28T16:16:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T15:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guildfordas.org\/newsitestaging\/?p=2998"},"modified":"2023-07-31T22:10:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T21:10:59","slug":"mssl-open-day-22nd-july-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guildfordas.org\/newsitestaging\/2023\/07\/28\/mssl-open-day-22nd-july-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"MSSL Open Day – 22nd July 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We were invited to the MSSL open day this year to support them with some solar astronomy outreach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We put up banners and scopes in a covered position right outside the main entrance.  Under the clouds the sun-scopes remained objects of interest only, however MSSL is high in the Surrey Hills and the view across the Weald to the South Downs 30-odd miles away was clear enough that we could at least show the capabilities of the \u2018normal\u2019 scopes by showing distant features close-up, resulting in surprised \u2018wows\u2019. The photo below includes a Meade ETX, using a table as a mount.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Valiant attempt to see the Sun through the cloud<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Nope! No idea….<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Visitors<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Meade ETX table mounted !<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Weather did not play ball !<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then it rained…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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And didn’t stop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Hiding in a marquee just off the terrace was Rosalind<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rosalind Franklin Mars Rover. Part of the ESA ExoMars Programme. Targeted with a 2028 launch to Oxia Planum<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inside the main entrance<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Make comets or visit GAIA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inside Holmbury House a crowd gathered around the how-to-make-a comet presentation, highlighted by the presenter bashing the frozen result with a rolling pin!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What do Astronomers do when it rains?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eat cr\u00eapes !<\/p>\n\n\n

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Obviously total bliss. Apparently there was a lot of chocolate in one of them ! Best kept at arms length !<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fish & Chips and ice cream were also close to hand !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We were invited to the MSSL open day this year to support them with some solar astronomy outreach. We put up banners and scopes in a covered position right outside the main entrance.  Under the clouds the sun-scopes remained objects of interest only, however MSSL is high in the Surrey Hills and the view across […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guildfordas.org\/newsitestaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guildfordas.org\/newsitestaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guildfordas.org\/newsitestaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guildfordas.org\/newsitestaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guildfordas.org\/newsitestaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2998"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.guildfordas.org\/newsitestaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3059,"href":"https:\/\/www.guildfordas.org\/newsitestaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions\/3059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guildfordas.org\/newsitestaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guildfordas.org\/newsitestaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guildfordas.org\/newsitestaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}