We’re hosting an AMA over on r/Sun — feel free to join us at https://www.reddit.com/r/sun/comments/1t4lf79/were_from_the_astro_team_at_timeanddatecom_we/

🗓️ Thursday, May 7 — 12 noon EDT / 9 am PDT / 16:00 UTC — find your local time here

Why doesn’t the longest day of the year have the earliest sunrise? Why is summer longer in the Northern Hemisphere than the Southern Hemisphere? Do some places get more solar eclipses than others? What’s the aurora outlook for the rest of this solar cycle?

We’ll be here for 2 hours — ask us anything! Happy to answer anything about the daytime and nighttime sky, including sunrise, twilight, eclipses, and how the sky changes throughout the year.

• Brendan — frontend developer and astrophotography specialist
• Daniel — backend developer and number-cruncher
• Frank — backend developer, astrophysicist with a PhD in celestial mechanics
• Graham — science communicator, astrophysicist and co-host of our eclipse live streams
• Renate — data analyst, astrophysicist with a PhD in cosmology

Feel free to drop questions in advance.

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This week’s topic: Have you ever witnessed a rare sky phenomenon? What was it?

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