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Super proud to have presented this award. There is no one more deserving. Don Cline is a legend.

Last night, the Greensboro Astronomy Club presented Donald Cline with a Lifetime Appreciation award. Over the past 30 years, Cline, a former local business owner, has crafted a legendary reputation the arena of public astronomy outreach.

His contributions and efforts include:
* Cline Observatory on the main campus of GTCC in Jamestown

* Guilford College Cline Observatory in Greensboro

* The Jo and Don Cline Visitor Center at Dark Sky Observatory on the campus of Appalachian Sate.

* The annual Jo Cline Memorial Astronomy Day Lecture (honoring his late wife), on the campus of GTCC. The lecture features a prominent researcher in astronomy, astrophysics, or planetary science.

* The Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute on the site of a former NASA satellite tracking station near Rosman, NC, in the Blue Ridge Mountains. PARI serves a multitude of audiences, providing educational camps to youth, research opportunities to college students, archival of thousands of meteorites and the world's second-largest collection of astronomical glass plates (almost 600k, preserving night sky observations going back nearly 150 years).

In addition, he has provided support to Three College Observatory, the NC Museum of Natural Sciences, and many others across the state and he has presented at the American Astronomical Society and numerous other professional conferences.

For all that you have done, and all that you continue to do ...

THANK YOU DON CLINE!

Welcome to Pi Day 2025 (3/14) ...

If you remember basic geometry, you will remember that pi comes from the relationship between the circumference and the radius of a circle:

Area of a circle = π r ^2

But what they didn't teach you in school is that that equation has a fundamental flaw.

Circles are round, not square 🤣🤣🤣🤣



Click the link for some pi trivia ... and don't forget to scroll to end to find a link to the NASA Pi Day Challenge, real life NASA math problems.

Now go out and enjoy your own circle of sheep aka shepherd's pi!! 😉😂😝🤪

Happy Pi Day! Find ways to celebrate here Have you heard of Pi Day? It happens every year on March 14. The numbers 3-1-4 are the first three digits of the famous mathematical constant pi, which, in case you’re wondering, is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.

Tonight, I will be at the Guilford College Cline Observatory for an opern house. We will first view a film. Afterwards, we will venture to the rooftop for some observing.

Take a look in the sky tonight to see a unique phenomenon. The moon will occult Mars, blocking the Red Planet from our view.

How to watch the full Wolf Moon 'swallow' Mars in the sky tonight — no telescope required Tonight (Jan. 13), bright Mars will disappear behind the full Wolf Moon for several hours before reappearing on the other side. It's the only lunar occultation of Mars visible from the U.S. this year. Here's how to get the most out of it.