<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dear Colleagues<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">As we near the date of the upcoming total solar eclipse it is likely that many of us will be asked for details. The ASA has prepa<font color="#000000">red an informative </font><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/tezBCMwGxOt5K36YrswUk1m?domain=eclipse.asa.astronomy.org.au/" target="_blank">website</a>. The site is being<font color="#000000"> updated regularly with additional materi</font>al. However it is certainly ready for widespread use and I recommend it to you as a good port of call for eclipse information (and with links to more detail than most of us would want!).<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Of course our EPOC Chapter is another useful resource - please contact the <font color="#000000">Chair </font>Jackie Bondell with any questions that the website does not answer.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Best wishes to all<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">John Lattanzio<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">P. S. Very sincere thanks to Terry Cuttle for his help with many of the details on the webpage. Terry is a member of the ASA and a member of the IAU <font color="#000000">Working </font>Group on eclipses. And thanks to our Webmaster Nick Smith!<u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> </p></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p style="text-align:left;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:top;font-family:Merriweather,Palatino,"Palatino Linotype","Palatino LT STD","Book Antiqua",Georgia,serif;line-height:var(--ws-base-line-height);color:hsla(var(--ws-surface-text-color),var(--ws-surface-text-medium-emphasis-opacity))"><br></p><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(53,28,117)">I'</span><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148)">m</span><font color="#000000"> </font><span style="color:rgb(106,168,79)">a</span><span style="color:rgb(241,194,50)">n</span><span style="color:rgb(230,145,56)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,255)"><span style="color:rgb(230,145,56)">L</span><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">G</span></span><span style="color:rgb(142,124,195)">B</span><span style="color:rgb(53,28,117)">T<span style="color:rgb(11,83,148)">I</span></span><span style="color:rgb(106,168,79)">Q</span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,255,0)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(241,194,50)">A</span><span style="color:rgb(230,145,56)">l</span><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">l</span><span style="color:rgb(142,124,195)">y</span></span></span></b><i><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><b>  </b>    -     Find out more at </span></i><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/4Ba-COMKzVTAVx2k8ckgvSD?domain=monash.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap" target="_blank"><i>monash.edu/lgbtiqa</i></a><i><br></i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div>Professor John Lattanzio</div><div>President, Astronomical Society of Australia</div><div><br>School of Physics and Astronomy<br></div><div>Monash University Victoria 3800 AUSTRALIA<br><br></div><div>Ph:  +61 (0)3 9905-4428<br>WWW: <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/dCslCQnMBZf6GPNLQirXZ3B?domain=maths.monash.edu.au/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">users.monash.edu.au/~johnl/</a><br><div><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/TYQpCWLVXkUj7qy8ESLtm8K?domain=orcid.org" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">orcid.org/0000-0003-2952-859X</a></div></div><div><br></div><div>---------</div></div></div><p style="padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:top;font-family:Merriweather,Palatino,"Palatino Linotype","Palatino LT STD","Book Antiqua",Georgia,serif;line-height:var(--ws-base-line-height);color:hsla(var(--ws-surface-text-color),var(--ws-surface-text-medium-emphasis-opacity));text-align:center">"<i style="padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:top">When you arrive in Heaven, you’ll have to leave your dog outside the gate. That’s because Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.</i>"   <span style="color:var(--text-color-1658212901230-1658212894919);font-weight:var(--ws-heading-5-font-weight);text-align:right">Mark Twain</span></p><p style="padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:top;font-family:Merriweather,Palatino,"Palatino Linotype","Palatino LT STD","Book Antiqua",Georgia,serif;line-height:var(--ws-base-line-height);color:hsla(var(--ws-surface-text-color),var(--ws-surface-text-medium-emphasis-opacity));text-align:center"><span style="color:var(--text-color-1658212901230-1658212894919);font-weight:var(--ws-heading-5-font-weight);text-align:right">Mr Twain is no fool. He may serve <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/cvJ1CVARKgClryP8JsW-kLI?domain=minkah.net/" target="_blank">Her Majesty Queen Minkah I.</a></span></p></div></div></div>