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  Inaugural Announcement

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Dear Fellow Astronomers, Travellers and Adventurers,

The Eclipse Chasers Athenaeum extends its warmest greetings to all readers of this inaugral announcement. We are pleased to inform you about the formation of our Athenaeum. The Athenaeum brings together all astronomers, and people with eclipses on their minds. Eclipse chasers, Ecliptomaniacs and Umbraphiles the world over now have the opportunity of joining this ‘First-Of-A-Kind-Athenaeum’.

The Eclipse Chasers Athenaeum has been formed with an intention to work together towards extensive planning for the future upcoming eclipses, solar and lunar.

The Athenaeum envisages an annual convention for eclipse chasers. This convention will present members’ past experiences, future intentions, discuss systematic experiments and photographic plans. A platform to present all your dedicated work on eclipses.

Eclispe Chasers Athenaeum will organise tours exclusively for members to travel under the shadow of the Moon.

Eclipse Chasers Atheneaum has been formed to facilitate Eclipse Chasers. When is the next eclipse over North Pole? How will the weather be on the day of the greatest eclipse of 21st century? Where should I station myself for the 2017 totality? All these questions can be easily answered in the Athenaeum online forum. Specially prepared texts (hard copies) will be mailed or made available to Athenaeum members for all upcoming eclipses much in advance. So your travel plans could start months before. Or if you wish to be an armchair eclipse chaser, an exclusive streaming website dedicated for Atheneaum members only, unlimited bandwidth, no jamming of website, real time streaming for your seeing pleasure.

Oh! How wonderful to chase butterflies
To hunt for rainbows & explore the skies!
To get away from life’s boring routine
And not wonder about what might have been…

How exhilarating to follow stars,
Sit under the Copper Moon in alluring lands afar,
Travel miles to keep our tryst with the Dark Sun…
Don’t you think its such a lot of fun!!

Lets pack our bags & get ready to travel,
Embark on a journey & explore umbral marvels
Lets chase eclipses & experience new cultures
ECLIPSE CHASERS ATHENAEUM brings you all these features!

So hurry up and apply right now
Get set for adventure and here’s how:
Fill up the form and become a member
An unforgettable voyage that you’ll always remember:

 



ECLIPSE CHASERS ATHENAEUM!!

The first event of the Eclipse Chasers Athenaeum is already upon us. Partial Lunar Eclipse of 16th August is just two days away. The Lunar eclipse is fully visible over the Indian night skies. The Athenaeum will be webcasting 3 hour umbral phases of the event live over the internet. The streaming will be done over a stable and good bandwidth internet connection. An exclusive server has been dedicated just for the webcast and we have ensured that no jamming or data transfer problems occur. The webcast will be of good quality and high resolution video. The webcast event will only be available to interested persons using a login ID and password.

A team of Athenaeum members is travelling to pristine skies in the Himalayas to image the Partial Eclipse. The team will be measuring the diameter of the Earth’s shadow at Lunar distance and also video time the occultations that are ocurring during the eclipse, namely that of Neptune and bright star 42 Capriconi.

Visit the Athenaeum’s website to enlist yourself, and enrich the Athenaeum.

To become an Athenaeum member
1.     The Annual Membership fee is Rs.1500/-.
2.     Students 17 years of age or below get the membership at a discounted price of Rs. 1000/- per year.
3.     There is no age limit.
4.     If a parent/Guardian wants to accompany the child [who is already a member] to any of our eclipse excursions, he/she will have to become a member themselfs.
5.     There will be an Annual Convention of the members where they will share their experiences and discuss their findings.
6.     Each member will get a unique user id and password with which they can log in and access a lot of written material and also view live web cast of eclipses as and when they occur.

You may be need to create an account to access some features or areas of this site. When creating your account, you must provide accurate and complete information. You are solely responsible for any and all uses of your account, and you must keep your password secure. You may never use the account of another user. You must notify the Eclipse Chasers Athenaeum immediately if you suspect any unauthorized use of your account. Although ECA will not be liable for any unauthorized use of your account, you may be liable for the losses of ECA or others due to such unauthorized use.

 

 
 
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