Poplar Bluff elementary students view sun through NASA telescope
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Kayden Dugger (left) and Jayson Jones of O’Neal look through the special binoculars also supplied through the SEAL program as they wait for their turn to safely observe the sun with the hydrogen-alpha solar telescope.(Source: Poplar Bluff School District)
Kayden Dugger (left) and Jayson Jones of O’Neal look through the special binoculars also supplied through the SEAL program as they wait for their turn to safely observe the sun with the hydrogen-alpha solar telescope.(Source: Poplar Bluff School District)
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Connie Roberson of the Poplar Bluff Municipal Library, whose husband Kevin is an amateur astrophotographer, assists Carol Leezer, grade three, in operating the solar telescope on Friday, Oct. 20, at O’Neal Elementary (Source: Poplar Bluff School District)
Connie Roberson of the Poplar Bluff Municipal Library, whose husband Kevin is an amateur astrophotographer, assists Carol Leezer, grade three, in operating the solar telescope on Friday, Oct. 20, at O’Neal Elementary (Source: Poplar Bluff School District)
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. (KBSI) – Poplar Bluff’s elementary students viewed the sun through NASA’s solar telescope on Tuesday, October 17.
To prepare for the total eclipse, O’Neal Elementary students had the opportunity to view the sun through NASA’s hydrogen-alpha solar telescopes with additional binoculars supplied.
The Poplar Bluff Municipal Library acquired the telescope through the Solar Eclipse Activities for Libraries (SEAL) program which is funded through the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and Space Science Institute, according to Poplar Bluff R-I School District.
Children and Youth Services Librarian Connie Roberson applied for the solar science kit that the Missouri State Library has been circulating on behalf of NASA. They have the device for the next month and a half and again in mid-February.
Money Talks News listed Poplar Bluff a one of the seven best places to observe the event beginning at 1:56 p.m. on Monday, April 8.
For approximately four minutes Poplar Bluff will have more visibility in totality than any other sizable community, with a band three times as great as the last such event in 2017 as the path stretches over 100 miles wide, according to the Chamber of Commerce.
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