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Slooh to Livestream Spectacular Meteor Shower and Total Solar Eclipse
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WASHINGTON DEPOT, CT - December 12, 2020 Over a nineteen hour period on Sunday and Monday (December 13/14), Slooh will continue to build its pioneering legacy of livestreaming celestial events to the general public. Two of 2020's most extraordinary astronomical events occur within that short window of time! The Spectacular Geminids Meteor Shower On Sunday, December 13, at 5:30 PM EST (22:30UTC), Slooh will livestream the spectacular Geminids Meteor Shower - one of the best showers of the year. The South American Total Solar Eclipse Sixteen hours later, on Monday, December 14, at 9:30 AM EST (14:30UTC), they will livestream the exceptional celestial event of 2020 - the Great South American Total Solar Eclipse, direct from one of Chile's most active volcanoes! During the live eclipse Star Party, Slooh will reveal a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for their members - to join their expert team on the "Slooh Antarctica Total Solar Eclipse Expedition," a 20-day voyage of discovery and exploration to witness 2021's only Total Solar Eclipse! Slooh literally goes to the end-of-the-Earth to bring live celestial events to their members and the general public! Slooh Astronomer and host, Paul Cox, said: "This is a truly remarkable 24-hour period for skywatchers, but it doesn't end there. We'll witness 'The Great Conjunction' on December 21 as we watch the astonishing sight of Jupiter and Saturn coming together in the sky. They will be so close together we'll see them side-by-side in the live views of Slooh's huge telescopes in the Canary Islands and Chile. Some believe it was a similar conjunction witnessed as the Star of Bethlehem - so the timing is near perfect!" The Great Conjunction coincides with December Solstice. Slooh will be celebrating the Solstice earlier in the day with live views of the Sun using their highly specialized solar telescope at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands. The livecast will end with a live yoga session run by actress and yogi Caroline Kinsolving. Slooh's Pioneering 10-Year Legacy Slooh pioneered the live online streaming of solar eclipses and other celestial events such as lunar eclipses, Near-Earth Asteroids whizzing past Earth, meteor showers, supernovae, planetary transits and conjunctions - if it's happening in space, Slooh covers it live! And, of course, Slooh members control and watch live telescope feeds from Slooh's observatory network every night! Over the last decade, Slooh's experts have traveled the globe to bring these awe-inspiring sights to the general public and Slooh members. Of the many solar eclipses Slooh has broadcast, the highlights include the ultra-rare African hybrid eclipse in 2013, the Faroe Islands icy total eclipse in 2015, the exotic Indonesian eclipse of 2016, the 2017 transcontinental eclipse where Slooh's mobile observatory traversed the USA, the 2019 South American eclipse, and the Christmas Day Ring-of-Fire eclipse in 2019. Slooh has broadcast virtually every solar and lunar eclipse over the last decade! Unique to Slooh's live broadcasts, members will be able to snap their own photos of the eclipse to use in a special Slooh Quest to create a stunning infographic poster of the event. Slooh's Quests are learning activities designed to teach astronomy in a fun and engaging way while using Slooh’s network of live telescopes. To Embed Slooh Livestreams TO EMBED Slooh’s coverage into any website, visit our YouTube channel's event pages and click "Share" below the video and then select "Embed" to get the embed code to insert into your webpage. The Spectacular Geminids Meteor Shower The Great South American Total Solar Eclipse The Still Sun - Celebrating the Solstice The Great Conjunction If you embed our livestream, you must adhere to the following: Slooh owns all copyright to the text, images, photographs, video, audio, graphics, user interface, and other content provided on Slooh live broadcasts. Slooh may run ads before, during, or after any broadcast. The following copy must be included in the page where the broadcast is embedded: “Visit Slooh.com to snap and share your own photos from this live event, and interact with our hosts and guests, and personally control Slooh’s telescopes.” “Courtesy of Slooh” must be located adjacent to the feed with a link back to www.slooh.com About Slooh Slooh teaches people to explore space via automated observatories that livestream in real-time to the Internet. Slooh's flagship observatory is situated at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC), one of the finest observatory sites in the world and home to the largest telescope in the world. Slooh has traveled with a mobile observatory to Kenya, the Faroe Islands, Indonesia, Iceland, Australia, Idaho and Alaska, and partnered with observatories in Arizona, Japan, Hawaii, Cypress, Dubai, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, and many more to broadcast live celestial events of Near-Earth Asteroids, comets, transits, eclipses, solar activity, etc., which have been widely syndicated to leading media outlets worldwide, including the New York Times, Science Channel, TIME, National Geographic, Wired, NBC, CNN and many more. Slooh published a book, The Saturn Above It, An Anthology of Short Fiction About Space. Slooh is supported by investment from Connecticut Innovations, the State’s venture capital investment fund. Slooh was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation. Contact: press@slooh.com Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/slooh/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SloohLive/
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