Solaris


Digital Solar Imaging in the Cayman Islands


23 Jan – 15 Mar 2018

Exhibition

Solaris: Digital Solar Imaging in the Cayman Islands was an exhibition by the late Dr William (Bill) Hrudey, MBE and featured digital photographic images of the sun captured by a purpose-built telescope housed at the University College of the Cayman Islands (UCCI) Observatory. Built by the late Dr Hrudey, the Solar Newtonian telescope was the only custom telescope of its kind within the Caribbean and one of the largest of its type in the world.

The exhibition sought to promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics through an artistic lens — photography and a degree of artistic license were used to render the images. We are all aware of the sun but few of us have the opportunity to see what it really looks like, a rare opportunity which this exhibition gave us.

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