SAFE solar viewing June 2025
SAFE solar viewing Bannau Brycheiniog Visitor Centre June 21st 2025
This year the solar viewing took place on the same day as the Solstice.
Once again, a group of CAS volunteers went to the Bannau Brycheiniog Visitor Centre at Libanus to show the public how to safely view the Sun. We arrived around 8:45 and were welcomed by Wayne and shown to our gazebo all set-up and waiting.
As usual we were greeted by rain and this time a strong breeze which at one stage threatened to lift our gazebo into the air. Once the rain stopped the clouds remained, so we used our newly purchased Seestar Telescope to do some bird watching. Also, Bob Love was able to show live images from telescopes in both the Canary Islands and Australia. This amazed some of the younger visitors.
Eventually the weather managed to provide patches of clear sky and by 2pm we had enough blue skies to be able to view the Sun.
We had a reasonable number of members of the public coming to look through the telescopes, several of them said they came specifically to meet us, so we entertained them with some facts about the Sun and advised them not to “do this at home”.
This year we were the only stand present, so we didn’t have a Ukelele band or calling Curlews. It was a hot and humid day and by 4pm we were all ready to head home and have a rest.
