Slooh & The Old Farmer’s Almanac Celebrate the Earliest ...

March 16th, 2016

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Slooh & The Old Farmer's Almanac Celebrate the Earliest Spring Since 1896

Announce Partnership to Produce Livestreams Featuring Seasonal Celestial Wonders

OnSaturday, March 19th at 2 PM PDT / 5 PM EDT / 21:00UTC (International Times: ), Slooh and The Old Farmer's Almanac( ) will celebrate the arrival of spring by featuring the Sun in all its majesty with live solar views from the Prescott Observatory in Arizona as well as the spectacle of the Aurora Borealis from northern latitudes. Join Slooh Astronomers Paul Cox and Bob Berman as they discuss the historical and modern cultural significance of this day, and special guest MareAnne Jarvela, Senior Editor of The Old Farmer's Almanac, who will share wisdom on gardening and spring folklore. Viewers can ask questions on Twitter by using @slooh.

"Bringing Slooh and the The Old Farmer's Almanactogether during these momentous occasions on the celestial calendar will create a rich experience for everyone from gardeners to astronomers, as well as those seeking a deeper connection to the ebb and flow of nature", says Bob Berman, longtime astronomy editor at both institutions.

In explaining the importance of the Vernal Equinox, Slooh founder and CEO Michael Paolucci said, "Twice a year, we experience near equal day and night across the planet. Slooh's mission is to bring a global community together to celebrate this moment as humans have done since antiquity, to mark the change of the seasons. We are honored to cohost with the venerable Old Farmer's Almanac, North America's most popular periodical and oldest published almanac, or `calendar of the heavens'."

Notes Slooh Astronomer Paul Cox: "Thanks to some Leap Day weirdness this year, we're in for the earliest arrival of spring since 1896. Vernal Equinox usually occurs on March 21st, but this year, depending on your time zone, it falls on March 19 or 20. That's great for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, but it also marks an early start to winter for those in the Southern Hemisphere."

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Event Timings: Live Stream starts: 2:00 PM PDT ? 5:00 PM EDT ? 21:00UTC Live Stream ends: 3:00 PM PDT ? 6:00 PM EDT ? 22:00UTC International Timings:

Vernal Equinox occurs on Saturday night at 20160320T04:30UTC (20 March 12:30AM EDT)

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About Slooh Slooh connects humanity through communal exploration of the universe. We gather people around live telescopes to see space for themselves and share their diverse perspectives. Since 2003, Slooh's automated observatories have processed celestial images in real-time for broadcast to the Internet. Slooh members have taken over 4-million photos/500,000 FITS images of over 50,000 celestial objects, participated in numerous discoveries with leading

astronomical institutions and made over 3,000 submissions to the Minor Planet Center. Slooh's flagship observatories are situated on Mt. Teide, in partnership with the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC), and in Chile, in partnership with the Catholic University. Slooh has also broadcast live celestial events from partner observatories in Arizona, Japan, Hawaii, Cypress, Dubai, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Norway and many more. Slooh's free live broadcasts of potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs), comets, transits, eclipses, solar activity etc. feature narration by astronomy experts Paul Cox and Bob Berman and are syndicated to media outlets worldwide. Slooh signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA in March 2014 to "Bring the Universe to Everyone and Help Protect Earth, Too."

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