The evening’s program will cover new developments in radio astronomy and demonstrate some of the radio science projects now being conducted at the Little Thompson Observatory.
Highlight of the presentation will be reports from two Berthoud High School teams who recently conducted radio astronomy experiments through an internship program with LTO as part of Berthoud High School’s initiative on Science,
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John HiattThe video from our November talk has been published on YouTube
Deploying the Hubble Space Telescope with Astronaut Loren Shriver
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Our guest speaker for this public star night will be our own volunteer John Ensworth and the title of his talk will be “The Star of Wonder”.
THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM FASCINATES.
The nature of the star has been lost in history, confused by the passage of time.
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John HiattThe video from our October talk has been published on YouTube.
https://youtu.be/_QCc-0RJwxI
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Our guest speaker for Friday November 20, 2015 will be Astronaut Loren Shriver. The title of his talk will be “Deploying the Hubble Space Telescope”
Colonel Shriver will share insights from his years of service at NASA, offering attendees a unique appreciation for the vastness of space that has yielded new scientific understandings but still holds great mystery.
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Our guest speaker for Friday October 23 2015 will be Dr Dennis Ebbets. The title of his talk will be “Twenty five years of discovery with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope”
This public lecture and slide show will describe the design and construction of the Hubble Space Telescope,
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John HiattThe video from our September Public Talk has been posted on our YouTube Channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fypGq0Y1aZY
Our speaker was John Ensworth. Mr. Ensworth is currently the Senior Science Education Specialist at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies. John will take you through the discoveries of Newton and Einstein and see how a simple question about light changed our understanding of the universe.
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Our guest speaker for Friday September 25 2015 will be our own volunteer and member of the board of directors John Ensworth. The title of his talk will be “Relativity for 5th Graders”
In this month’s presentation (part 2 to Quantum Mechanics for 5th Graders given in May 2015),
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John HiattThe video from our August Public Talk has been posted on our YouTube Channel.
Former astronaut Joe Tanner talks about Exploration! Also, here is the link to the YouTube video that is referenced at the end of the talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=spXqcPRa2bw
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Physicist Joe Bowden will present an overview of what science really knows about Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP), originating both from natural events and man-made causes such as military weapons and terrorist devices, during a session open to the public at the Little Thompson Observatory in Berthoud, Colorado, on August 27, 2015,
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