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Speakers from the PeayClipse lecture series will partner with Clarksville
Parks and Recreation to give talks to the public focused on different aspects
and impacts of the Total Solar Eclipse and other phenomena related to
understanding our solar system and civilization. The goal of these talks is to
help raise awareness about the eclipse and provide eclipse viewing safety
information. We will have a presentation that begins prior to select movies which
are part of the Clarksville Parks and Recreation Movies in the Park series. At each
of these presentations we will have solar eclipse glasses and a commemorative
Total Solar Eclipse Books available for purchase by the audience.
You may also pre-purchase solar viewing glasses and commemorative eclipse
books from the APSU Market Place:
Eclipse Educators will be present at every Downtown Market to pass out
total solar eclipse information, safety fliers and to sell commemorative eclipse
books and solar viewing glasses while supplies last.
You may also pre-purchase solar viewing glasses and commemorative eclipse
books from the APSU Market Place:
Saturday, August 19 Sundquist Science Center E106A/B APSU Campus
1:00 PM Total Solar Eclipse: Nature's Stellar Coincidenceby Mr. Jacob Robertson
2:00 PM Telling Time and Telling Tales by Dr. Tim Winters and Mrs. Mary Winters
3:00 PM Ancient Cultures Guided by the Stars by Dr. Don Sudbrink
4:00 PM The Secret Lives of Astronomers by Dr. J. Allyn Smith
Sunday August 20, 2017 @ the APSU Dunn Center
6:00 PMDr. Rhea Seddon, NASA Astronaut, Book Signing
7:00 PMDr. Rhea Seddon, NASA Astronaut, Speaking Engagement
8:45 PMLaunch (9:58) @ the APSU Dunn Center by Dr.'s McLean
Fahnestock and Michael Dickins (Projected Outside Dunn Center): Following
the development of the US space program through videos of launches that rise
into the night sky and a soundscape that alternates between clips of speeches
about our endeavors in space and the rumbling base of liftoff; Launch is a
multimedia experience that combines video projection, audio collage, and a
vibrating viewing platform. This piece has been adapted specifically for Austin
Peay State University and the Dunn Center for the Solar Peay-clipse event.
APSU Market Place:
The Total Solar PeayClipse Educational Experience will provide students the
ability to experience educational lessons and hands on activities related to the
science behind a solar eclipse. Faculty and APSU College of Science and Math
students will staff this opportunity for our community to learn more about the
eclipse before walking over to the Fortera Stadium to witness this rare and
special event of a total solar eclipse! General Admission $4 per child adults
accompanying children free and includes 1 pair of solar viewing glasses.
Unaccompanied adults $4.
APSU Market Place:
The Total Solar PeayClipse Lunch Learn tickets are $200 and includes the
reception and meet and greet with President White and NASA Astronaut Dr. Rhea
Seddon Sunday August 20th from 5:00-6:00 pm at the Dunn Center, reserved
seating for Dr. Seddon's lecture and Launch(9:58) display at the Dunn Center.
Early entry into the Total Solar PeayClipse Educational Experience at the Dunn
Center at 10:00 am, access to the GOVS club level Total Solar PeayClipse Lunch
and Learn at Fortera Stadium, a commemorative book, solar eclipse viewing
glasses, a PeayClipse visor and a commemorative eclipse pendant designed and
donated by a local jeweler with a letter of authenticity and an engraving for the
eclipse. ***The pendant is comprised of an acrylic black orb surrounded by cubic
zirconia set in sterling silver plated base metal.
APSU Market Place:
General Viewing for the Total Solar PeayClipse will be in the Fortera Stadium.
Parking will be $5 per vehicle and will include 2 pair of solar eclipse viewing
glasses. More viewing glasses can be purchased at the stadium for $2.
August 21, 2017 (Location TBA) - The APSU Department of Physics and Astronomy will participate in a national data-gathering consortium sponsored by the NASA Space
Grant College and Fellowship Program. Students at APSU will conduct a high altitude
balloon (HAB) flight to gather data related to the eclipse, which will be used with
other data gathered along the path of the eclipse to tell scientists more about the
phenomenon of a total eclipse.
August 21, 2017 -The APSU Department of Physics and Astronomywill participate in a
national data-gathering consortium sponsored by the NASA Space Grant College and Fellowship
Program. Students at APSU will conduct a high altitude balloon (HAB) flight to gather
data related to the eclipse, which will be used with other data gathered along the
path of the eclipse to tell scientists more about the phenomenon of a total eclipse.