{"id":2228,"date":"2016-03-28T22:39:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T03:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austinastro.org\/?p=2228"},"modified":"2016-04-07T21:52:55","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T02:52:55","slug":"join-the-in-your-own-backyard-txmost-exhibit-featuring-aas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/2016\/03\/28\/join-the-in-your-own-backyard-txmost-exhibit-featuring-aas\/","title":{"rendered":"Join the &#8220;In Your Own Backyard&#8221; TXMOST Exhibit Featuring AAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2256 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/austinastro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/In-Our-Own-Backyard-300x155.png\" alt=\"In Our Own Backyard\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/In-Our-Own-Backyard-300x155.png 300w, https:\/\/austinastro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/In-Our-Own-Backyard.png 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>TXMOST is having Earth Day celebrations on the 23rd, and they wish to celebrate the sciences by including AAS! We would become part of a new exhibit called <strong><em>In Your Own Backyard: Images from the Austin Astronomical Society.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The storyline for visitors is to see the incredible sights \u2018in your own backyard,\u2019 simply by looking up. AAS images are our own, created from our own interest, eyes, knowledge, skill, and tools. By stepping outside and looking up, visitors can see the things that we see any night of the year. In short, the TXMOST visitors can be just like us &#8211; in fact, they ARE us. \u00a0The exhibit would be on display for a year on the TXMOST gallery walls, complete with a wall caption beside it, giving the specifics on the image, how it was captured, and any short comment from you, the photographer.\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">All of the work to coordinate the exhibit for this will be handled\u00a0by TXMOST and the AAS Communications Chair &amp; Webmaster &#8211; we&#8217;d like to keep this as simple as possible as its our first exhibit with TXMOST, and easy for you to participate. So here&#8217;s the relevant information&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Technical Specifications<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Images are digital files only, printed on TXMOST\u2019s in house large format printer, and beautifully framed by TXMOST for display<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Please send the highest res images you can provide<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Photographers will be given full credit on display near the images<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The images will be shown in their gallery for a year, <strong>after which they will be returned, gifted with the framing, to the photographer!<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A\u00a0waiver is <strong>required<\/strong>, and any digital image <strong>will be deleted<\/strong> by TXMOST once printed, so that the only images are the printed\u00a0&amp; framed exhibits<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Exhibit\u00a0spots\u00a0range from 8&#8243; x 10&#8243; , 11&#8243; x 17&#8243; to a couple\u00a02\u2019 x 3\u2019 spots\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">They\u2019re looking for approximately 20 images, and astrophotographers\u00a0can submit more than one, though we\u2019d like to take at least one from each person who wants to participate<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The virtual version of the gallery will be on the AAS site too<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We\u2019ll need to have images in by the 12th or so, so they can be framed<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Joining the Exhibit<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\">Send an e-mail to <a href=\"mailto:communications@austinastro.org\">Communications<\/a> with your interest.\u00a0We&#8217;ll send the waiver to you asap!<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Please return the signed waiver, with your selected image(s), and the metadata and text for the wall caption (you&#8217;ll want to include your name, title\/subject, date\/time, location, any relevant image metadata [shutter speed, ISO, aperture, focal length, hardware, any processing])<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">Short artist&#8217;s statement about your image, you and your love of AP, how you got started &#8211; anything that allows folks understand what you do or how you (or they can) got started in your backyard. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\">Banners for the\u00a0Earth Day Event and our own banners highlighting AAS will be in rotation on both TXMOST and AAS websites to encourage folks to go to the event and to experience the AAS exhibit!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Any questions or ready to submit? Please contact the <a href=\"mailto:communications@austinastro.org\">Communications<\/a> team asap!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TXMOST is having Earth Day celebrations on the 23rd, and they wish to celebrate the sciences by including AAS! We would become part of a new exhibit called In Your Own Backyard: Images from the Austin Astronomical Society. The storyline for visitors is to see the incredible sights \u2018in your own backyard,\u2019 simply by looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,1,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astrophotography","category-default","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}