by Hanna Sathiapal | Nov 26, 2015 | Public Engagement
Just a bit over a week after the terrorist attacks in Paris, the ESWW12 took place as planned. Fortunately, not too many people had cancelled their participation. Governments of different coutries had issued very different travel recommendations, ranging from no...
by Hanna Sathiapal | Sep 16, 2015 | Public Engagement
This summer, we conducted four pilot workshops introducing kids to space weather forecasting and classifying magnetograms. We used Sunspotter, the Zooniverse citizen science project developed by FLARECAST’s Irish project partners. Sunspotter is a platform for...
by Hanna Sathiapal | Jun 17, 2015 | Public Engagement
FLARECAST partner Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale contributed to the exhibition L’Odyssée de la Lumière at Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie in Paris. It is open from March 17 to November 1, 2015. The exhibition is dedicated to the International Year...
by Hanna Sathiapal | Apr 1, 2015 | Public Engagement
This year’s solar eclipse attracted a lot of interest both from the media and the public. FLARECAST consortium partners in countries where the Moon covered the Sun to a considerable extent participated in a variety of outreach activities: school visits,...
by Hanna Sathiapal | Mar 23, 2015 | Public Engagement
This satellite animation shows the solar eclipse experienced over Europe as viewed from Space. Created using EUMETSAT Rapid Scan Service imagery provided by the Meteosat-9 geostationary satellite. By MET Office (thank you Sophie.)