10 years ago PAS showed the Mercury transit of the Sun at PVCC on 34th st and
Union Hills. We had about 10 PAS members attend and hundreds of students and
members of the public.
I suggest we put the upcoming Mercury transit event of Monday May 9, 2016, on
our PAS calendar. I think PVCC would again be a great place for the transit. It
will be from approximately dawn until approximately 12 noon. We can have solar
scopes for sunspots and h-alpha scopes for the solar flares. We can have a
table set up for information and do a press release for the public assuming
PVCC will allow the public on their campus again. We then need to decide which
campus to have the event. Since we don't need dark skies I suggest the main
campus as more centrally located and having the most students. Terri, please
check with Jenny to see if we can do this special event at PVCC unless PAS
members think we should do another location in the Valley.
Take care, Sam Insana President of PAS
