In celebration of Summer Solstice and the International Year of Astronomy, the Goldendale Astronomy Club will set up a free solar observing demonstration for the public at the Maryhill Stonehenge War Memorial from noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday, June 21.

Visitors will have the opportunity to view the Sun through specially-filtered telescopes for images of our nearest star that they have probably never seen. With white light filters we will examine the Sun's surface, the photosphere, and look for features such as sunspots, granulation, and faculae; hydrogen-alpha filters will provide views of the Sun's chromosphere where solar prominences and flares are visible in an ultra-thin slice of the ruby red portion of the light spectrum in which hydrogen gas glows at 20,000 degrees Centigrade (36,000 degrees Fahrenheit).