{"id":2204,"date":"2020-08-22T15:11:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T15:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/?p=2204"},"modified":"2020-08-22T15:12:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T15:12:47","slug":"a-new-season-of-observing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/a-new-season-of-observing\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Season of Observing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The very word \u2018society\u2019 implies a social connection between its members. We meet up for lectures, outreach and observing or astro-chats with friends over coffee &amp; biscuits at home or a drink &amp; crisps in the pub. The virus has put strict limits on most of those activities:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Group meetings for lectures are impractical for most societies (even if the venue is still available) and, where it <em>can<\/em> be safely achieved, there are severe constraints on numbers and sociability during the meeting.<\/li><li>Public outreach activities, especially those involving young children, are <em>very<\/em> risky. Recall the advice to not touch your face to avoid spreading the virus and then consider both potential risks of transferring the virus from the moist areas around the eyes or condensing virus-laden breath on to an eyepiece and then passing that virus to someone else <em>via<\/em> contact with the eyepiece. In consequence, viewing should be limited to use of webcams and display on a laptop screen.<\/li><li>Group observing by your members <em>can<\/em> be done with full adherence to social distancing and thorough sanitisation of any shared equipment (but don\u2019t share eyepieces).<\/li><li>Permitted \u2018social bubbles\u2019 aside, meeting in each other\u2019s homes is risky unless you know your host\u2019s self-protection regime well and can judge the risk to yourself and meeting in pubs should only be done where you can see they\u2019ve taken all reasonable precautions to guard against their customers transmitting the infection and is enforcing distancing.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Paul Daniels FAS President (Aug 2020)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The very word \u2018society\u2019 implies a social connection between its members. We meet up for lectures, outreach and observing or astro-chats with friends over coffee &amp; biscuits at home or a drink &amp; crisps in the pub. The virus has put strict limits on most of those activities: Group meetings for lectures are impractical for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Martin Baker","author_link":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/author\/martin_baker\/"},"featured_img":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/category\/uncategorized\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Uncategorized<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Uncategorized<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 6 years ago","modified":"Updated 6 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 22 August, 2020","modified":"Updated on 22 August, 2020"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 22 August, 2020 3:11 pm","modified":"Updated on 22 August, 2020 3:12 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NBna-zy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2206,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions\/2206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}