{"628761":{"#nid":"628761","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Viewing Mercury Transit 2019","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn Monday, Nov. 11, 2019, the planet Mercury will pass across the disk of the sun. The rare celestial event can be viewed with the eye-safe telescopes of the Georgia Tech Observatory. This planetary transit is rare, occurring only around 13 times each century. \u0026ldquo;This will be the last such event visible from Georgia Tech until 2049,\u0026rdquo; says James Sowell, director of the Georgia Tech Observatory.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe transit begins at 7:36 AM and ends at 1:04 PM. The observatory will have eye-safe telescopes available during the entirety of the transit.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EContact jim.sowell@physics.gatech.edu if you have questions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn Monday, Nov. 11, 2019, the planet Mercury will pass across the disk of the sun. The rare celestial event can be viewed with the eye-safe telescopes of the Georgia Tech Observatory.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Georgia Tech Observatory welcomes viewers of Mercury\u0027s transit across the sun on Nov. 11."}],"uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2019-11-07 20:46:56","changed_gmt":"2019-11-07 20:48:02","author":"A. Maureen Rouhi","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2019-11-11T07:36:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2019-11-11T13:04:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2019-11-11T13:04:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2019-11-11 12:36:00","gmt_time_end":"2019-11-11 18:04:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2019-11-11 18:04:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"628666":{"id":"628666","type":"image","title":"Mercury Transit 2019 (Credit: NASA)","body":null,"created":"1573062967","gmt_created":"2019-11-06 17:56:07","changed":"1573062967","gmt_changed":"2019-11-06 17:56:07","alt":"","file":{"fid":"239425","name":"Mercury transit.NASA_.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Mercury%20transit.NASA_.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Mercury%20transit.NASA_.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":66207,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Mercury%20transit.NASA_.jpg?itok=96_J3IYB"}}},"media_ids":["628666"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"EAS"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"},{"id":"1279","name":"School of Mathematics"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"443951","name":"School of Psychology"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"183020","name":"astronomy event"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jim.sowell@physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejim.sowell@physics.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}