{"id":24655,"date":"2017-08-17T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=24655"},"modified":"2017-08-17T00:56:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T05:56:07","slug":"nycs-times-square-to-broadcast-nasa-eclipse-video-shot-at-apsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2017\/08\/17\/nycs-times-square-to-broadcast-nasa-eclipse-video-shot-at-apsu\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC\u2019s Times Square to broadcast NASA eclipse video shot at APSU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-324279\" title=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Austin-Peay-State-University-APSU.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" height=\"64\" width=\"250\"\/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; On Monday, August 21st, 2017, the day of the Great American Eclipse, a large digital screen in New York City\u2019s Times Square will broadcast images captured from the Austin Peay State University observatory.<\/p>\n<p>A production crew with NASA TV will be on campus that day, filming the total solar eclipse, because the University is one of the best places in the world to witness the historic event.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/APSU-PeayCLIPSE.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-387100\" title=\"APSU PeayCLIPSE\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/APSU-PeayCLIPSE-480x236.jpg\" alt=\"APSU PeayCLIPSE\" height=\"236\" width=\"480\"\/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>NASA scientists will also converge on APSU\u2019s Farm and Environmental Education Center to conduct several scientific experiments related to the eclipse.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the morning, researchers will conduct high-altitude balloon launches to capture video and atmospheric data during the eclipse. That video may also appear on a screen in Times Square.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs an institution of higher learning, we couldn\u2019t let this opportunity to educate and enrich the public slip away, and for the last several years, Austin Peay\u2019s faculty and staff have prepared for this once-in-a-lifetime occurrence,\u201d said APSU President Dr. Alisa White.<\/p>\n<p>The APSU Farm will only be open to scientists and members of the media, but the community is invited to the University\u2019s Clarksville campus, which is an official NASA 2017 eclipse site. Several activities, open to the public, will take place at the Clarksville campus the day of the eclipse, including live viewing at Fortera Stadium, as well as educational entertainment designed for K-12 audiences in the Dunn Center the morning leading up to the start of the eclipse.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apsu.edu\/eclipse\" >www.apsu.edu\/eclipse<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville, TN &#8211; On Monday, August 21st, 2017, the day of the Great American Eclipse, a large digital screen in New York City\u2019s Times Square will broadcast images captured from the Austin Peay State University observatory. A production crew with NASA TV will be on campus that day, filming the total solar eclipse, because the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[22711,23,438,4402,22185,28164,9697,30629,11642,262,825,8154,16705,2406,30789,11328,9023,26536,30788,30474],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-6pF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24656,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24655\/revisions\/24656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}