Rowan to Host Thousands for Eclipse
She has been guest lecturing for months on solar eclipses and preparing for a big event Monday at the university to celebrate the eclipse, which has become a national obsession.
“Eclipses are actually all not that rare, they happen about once a year on average but what’s rare about this one is that it’s in the US which has not happened for almost 40 years,” says Barraclough.
The Edelman Planetarium, which has a 40-foot dome screen and seats about a hundred people, is a great place to learn about astronomy year-round.
Monday Rowan expects to have more than a thousand people at their event.
They’ll be doing shows on eclipses in the planetarium starting at 12:30 p.m., kids activities and then the main event outside watching the solar eclipse at 2:45 p.m..
Rowan will give out 1,000 eclipse glasses on a first come first serve basis.
Astronomers like Barraclough say they’re more than happy to welcome eclipse-lovers into new realms of learning.
“The eclipse opens up the conversation about other topics within astronomy too so it’s a great teaching tool for us,” says Barraclough.
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