[stylist] Experiencing the ECLIPSE

[Kendra Schaber]

Hi all! 
I got wind of it becoming avalible for our Android friends last night. I'm glad!!! They don't need to miss out just because they can't access it. We blind folk don't get this lucky with anything from the astronomy world very often so, when we get it, it's like winning Olympic gold. I'm glad to see that changing for the better!!! We have the same right to access the stars as our sited friends do. 


 
Blessed be!!! 
Kendra Schaber 
National Federation of the Blind 
"When the student is ready, the teacher will appear" Author Unknown 
  
 Sent From My GMail EMail account On My IPhone SE. Typed to you with my Keys To Go blue tooth Keyboard, the only keyboard I know to work with an IPhone SE. 

> On Aug 18, 2017, at 21:07, slery via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> As of today, now available for android.
> 
> Cindy
> 
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> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Robert Leslie
> Newman via stylist
> Sent: Friday, August 18, 2017 10:47 AM
> To: writers nfb <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Robert Leslie Newman <robertleslienewman at gmail.com>
> Subject: [stylist] Experiencing the ECLIPSE
> 
> Maybe you all have seen these:
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> (1) The Eclipse Soundscapes app for iOs devices is perhaps the most
> revolutionary, since this offers the user a chance to experience this event
> through vibrational touch on the screen as well as through sound.  A special
> app, available through iTunes, uses an interactive rumble map customized to
> the viewer's location.  The Soundscapes app will geolocate you and start the
> narration to align with the planetary movements as they occur from your
> local vantage point. The specialized imaging description techniques making
> this possible were developed by the National Center for Accessible Media
> (NCAM), a part of television station WGBH of Boston, Massachusetts. .  Other
> partners in the Eclipse Soundscapes project are the Smithsonian
> Astrophysical Observatory (H.E.C.) and the National Park Service.  Download
> the app from
> https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/eclipse-soundscapes/id1262152991?mt=8.
> 
> I am not aware that this app is available for Android devices.
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> (2)  If you have a way to get to Facebook,  tune in Monday beginning
> 
> 12:00 PM EDT as the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and solar
> astrophysicist Henry "Trae" Winter put on a special, pre-eclipse live event
> geared with the blind and visually impaired in mind.
> 
> Follow this project on Facebook at
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> https://www.facebook.com/EclipseSoundSAO/.
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> (3)  The ACB Radio Interactive Channel will be offering narration of the
> solar eclipse.  Go to http://www.acbradio.org/interactive.  The Audio
> Description Project, an initiative of the American Council of the Blind
> (ACB) along with the Mid-Tennessee Council of the Blind, the Tennessee
> School for the Blind, and the Tennessee Performing Arts Center, will host
> this audio description of the solar eclipse.
> 
> Between 2:00 PM and 3:00 PM EDT, Dr. Joel Snyder will host an event titled,
> "A Total Eclipse - Audio Described," on ACB Radio Interactive.
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> Happy listening.
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