LTO News

Our speakers for this evening will be Andrea Schweitzer and Daniel Greenidge, both volunteers with the LTO.  Their talk is titled: Outdoor Lighting and its Effect on our Safety, Streets and Skies.  Good quality outdoor lighting improves safety, is better … Read more →

Our guest speaker is Bryan White, known from past years for his great 3-D comet slide show as well as an out of this world Aurora Borealis show. Bryan White will be selecting Aurora pictures from 2002, 2004, and 2006.  … Read more →

Our guest speaker for this public star night will be our own volunteer John Ensworth and the title of his special talk will be “Are we alone?”  What is life? Are there extreme environments on Earth where we are surprised … Read more →

  Our guest speaker for this special public star night will be our own volunteer John Ensworth and the title of his special talk will be “The Star of Wonder”.  THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM FASCINATES. The nature of the star … Read more →

Friday, November 18, 2011   7 – 11 PM    Our guest speakers will be Chief Sam Moves Camp and Jim Tolstrup, and the title of their talk will be “Lakota Star Knowledge”.  As part of this talk, a brief ceremony … Read more →

Our guest speaker will be Dr Thomas Bogdan from NOAA, and the title of his talk will be “Space Weather”.  Space weather refers to conditions on the Sun and in the space environment that can influence the performance and reliability … Read more →

The Little Thompson Observatory (LTO) will host a Vesta Fiesta at 7:00pm on Saturday 6 August, to celebrate the beginning of the NASA Dawn mission’s year-long visit to the asteroid Vesta.  The Dawn spacecraft left Earth on Sept 27, 2007, … Read more →

  Our guest speaker will be John Ensworth.  The title of his talk will be: “Theories of Everything – from the Beginning of Time to When Time Doesn’t Exist”.  This will be a series of two talks to be performed … Read more →

  Our guest speaker for this Friday will be Dr Suzanne Metlay.  The title of her talk will be: “Hunting Meteorites in Antarctica”. ANSMET is the Antarctic Search for Meteorites program funded by the National Science Foundation. This international program … Read more →

The LTO Volunteer Picnic has been rescheduled to Sunday 5 June from 1 – 5 pm at Karol’s house. Please RSVP with Karol again if you can join us.