Outreach activities during the solar eclipse on March 20

23/03/2015
The IAC participated in a number of outreach activities related to past solar eclipse (Friday 20 March 2015). A group of astrophysicists and solar physicists from the IAC, among them SO pre- and post-doctoral researchers, collaborated with the Museum of Science and the Cosmos (MCC) of the Museums of Tenerife, in public activities related to observations of the eclipse, which were organized at the roof terrace of the museum between 07.45 a.m. and 09. 38 a.m. local time, the times when the partial eclipse began and ended when viewed from the Canaries. Although clouds ruled out observing the eclipse for all but a few seconds, more than 400 visitors could attend lecture-workshops about how eclipses are produced, and made direct connection with the web platforms which were transmitting the total eclipse from the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic, and from the Svalbard Islands (in the frozen Arctic ocean).  >> Further information