On 29 May 2012, at 14:47, Steve Fisher wrote:
At the Natural History museum, there will be a minimum of 10 sun safe telescopes set up on the deck where the public may observe the transit for free during the event.
In addition to the free observing I currently have a total of 17 people bringing a minimum of one telescope each to the Natural History Museum of Utah. The museum is holding a “festival” type event in partnership with The Salt Lake Astronomical Society and the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Utah that will officially start at 3:00 PM and admission to the museum will be required for the festival which includes presentations, “hands on exhibits” and Telescope giveaways, live radio coverage, interviews and more.
Just to clarify (for those who did not see the discussion here last week) while the public will need to pay to get into the main part of the museum most of the telescopes and many of the presentations and demonstrations will be in the free area. And as I think Steve mentioned earlier today, if you sign up with him to volunteer at the event (whether a SLAS member or not or if you bring a telescope or not) you and your family will be admitted to the museum free. Also, NASA has sent me another couple hundred Sun viewing glasses which (with the kind permission of the museum) I'll be giving away at the event. patrick