Get ready for one of the best light shows ever produced. April 8th, 2024 Bloomington Indiana, home of Indiana University will experience a total eclipse of over 4 minutes of totality. You have to see it to believe it.
In preparation for the event, the Astronomy department at IU along with a number of IU departments and groups across southern Indiana will be having lead up lectures, educational classes for those that want to learn more and many many other activities.
We have compiled a number below in anticipation of the needs of scholars, teachers and the community at large. We hope you are able to participate in one of the most significant astronomical events to happen in southern Indiana.
We’ll broadcast the partial solar eclipse on Saturday, October 14, 2023, as well as the big event, the total eclipse of the Sun on April 8, 2024. The Solar Telescope’s special optics give a real-time view of the Solar chromosphere, including prominences and flares erupting from the Sun’s deeper layers.
Join us on Eclipse Day for a special, live-stream view of the Sun from the Kirkwood Observatory Solar Telescope on the IU campus. Watch a close-up view on the Web as the Moon covers the Sun, and take a look at the solar corona during the eclipse.
In honor of the solar eclipse the famous Science Fest organized by IU’s College of Arts and Sciences will move from it’s usual date in October to the Saturday in April just before the total eclipse on Monday, April 8. Science will return to its usual fall schedule in October, 2024.
First Saturday Solar Viewing – Join us on the first Saturday of each month at Kirkwood Observatory to get to know the Sun before the Big Day. The Kirkwood Solar Telescope will be open for viewing the Sun from 1-3 PM, weather permitting, including special views of sunspots, the solar chromosphere, and prominences.
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IU Astronomy major Rachael Weir and IU Physics Professor John Carini are part of a project run by the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder to produce an hour-long movie of the solar corona during the 2024 total eclipse in the US.
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The Wylie House will feature the historic eclipse of 1869, when Professors Theophilus Wylie, Daniel Kirkwood, and Elisha Ballantine gathered on the roof of this historic residence to experience (and photograph) this remarkable event – the last total eclipse of the Sun to be seen in Indiana
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The Wells Library will feature a special exhibit about total eclipses of the Sun. The exhibit will focus on historical and cultural views of solar eclipses. To be announced
Learn about Indiana University’s contributions to the study of eclipses in the 19th and early 20th century. IU Professors John Miller and Wilbur Cogshall participated in many eclipse expeditions during this period to study and photograph the solar corona.
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The IU Physics Department students, staff, and faculty are building a special detector to measure the number of cosmic ray muons and neutral particles that arrive before, during, and after the total eclipse.
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The College of Arts