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The RMSC Marks One Year Out To Total Solar Eclipse

On Saturday, April 8 at 3:20 pm, you’ll be able to preview the location of the sun for the next total solar […]

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Scout Your Location 1 Year Out!

The one-year countdown for the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse is almost here! Within the next week, be sure to go outside at […]

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Blast From the Past

As we were going through old files in the RMSC Strasenburgh Planetarium, we found an envelope from the 1994 Annular Solar Eclipse! […]

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STANYS 2022

On Sunday, November 6th, we gave a presentation on preparing for the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse at the STANYS Conference (Science Teacher […]

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Thank You AAS Eclipse Planning Workshop Attendees

Huge thank you to everyone who attended the AAS Eclipse Planning Workshop, the LightSound Make-A-Thon, the eclipse outreach training led by the […]

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RMSC Hosting AAS Eclipse Planning Workshop

The American Astronomical Society (AAS) Solar Eclipse Task Force will host a solar eclipse planning workshop Friday-Saturday, October 21-22, 2022, at the Rochester Museum & Science […]

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Scout Your Location – August 25 to September 8

Did you know that if you looked up at the sky at 3:20 PM from August 25th through September 8th, the sun […]

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Outreach at Brighton Farmers Market

We had a blast promoting the 2024 total solar eclipse yesterday morning at the Brighton Farmers Market. Lots of kids and families […]

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Celebrating the May 2022 Total Lunar Eclipse in Rochester

Rochester had a stunning view of the Lunar Eclipse last night!  At the RMSC, we celebrated with two live concerts of Vanishing […]

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2 Year Until 2024 Total Solar Eclipse!

Two years from today, we’ll be viewing a once-in-a-lifetime total solar eclipse right here in Rochester! Save the Date for April 8th, […]

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