Monthly Archives: January 2017

Public Star Night 17 Feb 2017, 7:30pm – Dr John Spencer – “NASA’s New Horizons Mission to Pluto and beyond”

Our speaker for this evening will be Dr John Spencer from the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder and the title of his talk will be “NASA’s New Horizons Mission to Pluto and beyond”.

On July 14th 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made the first-ever encounter with the dwarf planet Pluto,

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December Video Posted

Our December video has been posted on YouTube
Robert Ayala, Astronomica Symphonica!
https://youtu.be/TQexJm065RE

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Public Star Night 20 January 2017 – Dr Gordon MacAlpine – Cosmology with Quasars

Our guest speaker is Dr Gordon MacAlpine, and the title of his presentation is “Cosmology with Quasars: Dinosaurs of the Universe”.

This will be a public talk and PowerPoint presentation suitable for all ages.  Dr MacAlpine will discuss what quasars are, how they were discovered,

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