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Wednesday, August 16, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
ECLIPSE: Sisters will
get about 30 seconds
of totality
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Reddish-colored promi-
nences may also be seen
darting from the limb of the
moon. The length of totality
will depend on how close an
observer is to the shadow’s
centerline. In Oregon, the
totality phase will begin near
Lincoln City on the coast at
about 10:15 a.m. and leave the
state at 10:27 a.m. The largest
town in Central Oregon clos-
est to the eclipse’s centerline
is Madras. There the duration
of totality will be about 2 min-
utes and 4 seconds, and begin
at around 10:19 a.m.
Here in Sisters totality is
predicted to last just 30 sec-
onds or so, depending where
the viewer is situated.
Except for world-wide
travelers who chase them,
viewing a total solar eclipse
is usually a once-in-a-lifetime
experience. If you are at all
interested in this, do all you
can to place yourself some-
where within the path of total-
ity on eclipse day. You won’t
regret it.
At least a partial eclipse
will be seen throughout all
of North America (weather
permitting.)
As always, the night sky
offers many worthy sights to
the observer — unfortunately
frequently obscured by smoke
this month.
Currently residing in Virgo,
big and bright Jupiter is found
in the western twilight this
month. Mercury is there too,
but much lower in the sky—
just six degrees above the
horizon. It drops out of sight
as the month progresses.
Slower-moving Saturn
is about 30 degrees above
the southern horizon at mid-
month, well-placed for eve-
ning viewing. Its system of
rings is fully open, tipped
27 degrees to our line of
sight, allowing for the clear-
est views. Saturn’s largest
moon, Titan, is easily visible
through almost any telescope;
Tethys, Dione and Rhea
can be glimpsed through an
instrument with a four-inch
or greater objective diameter.
The sluggishly slow-mov-
ing planet is still seemingly
anchored in the constellation
of Ophiuchus.
Venus is currently playing
the role of the Morning Star.
Buying or Selling in Sisters?
It rises about 2.5 hours before
the sun and stands 20 degrees
above the eastern horizon an
hour before sunup. The bright-
est planet spends most of the
month in Gemini before cross-
ing into Cancer on August 25.
On some dark evening in
August, an interesting, and
fun, exercise might be to see
how many of the more con-
spicuous summer constel-
lations you can find. These
would include (alphabeti-
cally) Aquila, Cygnus, Lyra,
Sagittarius and Scorpius. Also
see if you can make out the
Summer Triangle.
To learn more about our
sky during the month of
August, come to the Stars
Over Sisters Starwatch event
on Saturday, August 19 at 8:30
p.m. It will begin with a pre-
sentation in the Sisters Park &
Recreation District building at
1750 W. McKinney Butte Rd.
After the presentation, tele-
scopes will be available in the
northwest corner of the high
school parking lot for viewing
the night sky.
The event is free.
Feds file case against
Columbia Sportswear hacker
PORTLAND (AP) —
Federal prosecutors have filed
a charge of computer fraud
against a former Columbia
Sportswear information tech-
nology manager who alleg-
edly continued to log in to the
company’s computer system
for years after he quit.
The
Oregonian/
OregonLive reported Friday
that the charge was filed
against Michael Leeper.
Leeper worked at the
Columbia job for 14 years and
quit in 2014 to join a Seattle
technology company.
Prosecutors claim he con-
tinued to access Columbia’s
system for more than two
years with hopes of commer-
cial gain.
Columbia filed a civil law-
suit against Leeper and current
employer, Denali Advanced
Integration, in March, say-
ing Leeper hacked into their
systems hundreds of times.
Leeper has denied any
wrongdoing and claimed
Columbia knew he was access-
ing the company’s system.
Sam Kaufman, the
Portland attorney representing
Leeper, declined comment on
the criminal case.
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