FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 11, 2016
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Tricia Ennis
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Slooh and TIME For Kids Invite You to
Experience a Planetary High Five
Explore the Solar System and Learn to Spot All Five
Naked Eye Planets from Your Backyard
On Tuesday, August 16, at 3:00 PM PDT | 5:00 PM EDT | 22:00 UTC (International
Times: http://bit.ly/2bk0Fud ), Slooh is teaming up with TIME For Kids to present a Planetary
High Five, as all five naked eye planets -- Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter -- come
out to play. Slooh is taking young astronomers on an exploration of our Solar System, and
challenging kids to spot these planets in their backyards, and through Slooh’s Canary Islands
telescopes.
During the live broadcast, Slooh Astronomer Eric Edelman will give viewers a guided
tour of the skies, and will help the young audience learn to spot their favorite planet among the
many appearing that night. He’ll explore how the planets move through the sky, and how that
movement leads to planetary alignments and special appearances like these.
Then, it’s time to zoom in on Mars and Saturn through Slooh’s Canary Islands
telescopes, and look toward further exploration of Earth’s nearest neighbors. Eric will be joined
by Josh Richards, a finalist in the Mars One mission, who is hoping to be one of the first people
to set foot on the Red Planet. They’ll discuss why he wants to travel to another planet, and what
he plans to do when he finally gets there, especially given he doesn’t have a ride home.
Eric will also be joined by Bing Quock, Assistant Director of the Morrison Planetarium at
San Francisco’s CalAcademy. They’ll zoom in on the planet Saturn, exploring the possibility of
life, human or alien, on one of its many moons, as the Slooh telescopes swing around to catch
live views of the ringed planet.
While many describe this event as an “alignment,” the planets don't actually line up.
Rather, they’ll appear in two groups. Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter will appear together low in the
western sky at dusk local time, so keep an eye out for them as the sun sets where you live.
Meanwhile, Mars and Saturn will rise high in the Southern sky, forming a triangle with the bright
star Antares.
As an added bonus, Slooh will be making its Constellation Cam in the Canary Islands
available to view starting 3 hours before the show. Kids will be able to watch Mars, Saturn and
Antares rise in the sky, challenge themselves to spot the bright planets, and snap pictures as
they move above Slooh’s flagship observatory at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary
Islands.
Kids and their parents can join in on the show, ask questions, comment, and share their
images of the Planetary High Five by sending them to @Slooh on Twitter, or by joining in on the
live chat on Slooh.com.
Event Details
Event Timing:
Live Stream starts: 3:00 PM PDT ¦ 6:00 PM EDT ¦ 22:00 UTC
Live Stream ends: 3:30 PM PDT ¦ 6:30 PM EDT ¦ 22:30 UTC
International Timing: http://bit.ly/2bk0Fud
Spot Mars and Saturn from Your Location/Time Zone with Our Downloadable Star Charts:
New York (EDT): Mars and Saturn | Jupiter, Mercury, and Venus
Chicago (CDT): Mars and Saturn | Jupiter, Mercury, and Venus
Phoenix (MDT): Mars and Saturn | Jupiter, Mercury, and Venus
Los Angeles (PDT): Mars and Saturn | Jupiter, Mercury, and Venus
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About Slooh
Slooh connects humanity through communal exploration of the universe. We gather people around live
telescopes to see space for themselves and share their diverse perspectives. Since 2003, Slooh’s
automated observatories have processed celestial images in real-time for broadcast to the Internet.
Slooh members have taken over 4-million photos/500,000 FITS images of over 50,000 celestial objects,
participated in numerous discoveries with leading astronomical institutions and made over 3,000
submissions to the Minor Planet Center. Slooh’s flagship observatories are situated on Mt. Teide, in
partnership with the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC), and in Chile, in partnership
with the Catholic University. Slooh has also broadcast live celestial events from partner observatories
in Arizona, Japan, Hawaii, Cypress, Dubai, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Norway and many
more. Slooh’s free live broadcasts of potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs), comets, transits, eclipses,
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