Our guest speakers for this public star night will be Deborah Price and
Rebecca
Dickson. The title of their presentation
is “Dark Skies Matter”.
Light pollution blots out much of our night sky
and prevents us from seeing the views that our ancestors enjoyed, but there are
also other reasons to protect the night sky.
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Our guest speaker for this public star night will be our own volunteer and
board member John Ensworth. The title of
his presentation is “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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Our guest speaker is Jim Tolstrup, and the title
of his talk will be “Lakota Star Knowledge”.
Members of the Lakota tribe observed the stars while remaining in one geographical area over a period of thousands of years. In the “Winter Circle” they saw a representation of their seasonal migration through the Black Hills in Western South Dakota.
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Our guest speaker is Dr Robert Arn from Northrop-Grumman Corporation in Colorado Springs, CO, and the title of his presentation is “Nightscape Photography: Exploring the World at Night”.
Juxtapose wide open meadows, towering mountains, and vast deserts against the night sky using modern DSLR and mirrorless digital cameras.
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For over twenty years the international radio
astronomy community has been developing the technology and designs for a
revolutionary new research instrument, the Square Kilometer Array (SKA). The SKA will be the next-generation facility
for radio astronomy, offering a tremendous increase in sensitivity and
flexibility over any existing radio facility in the world.
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Our guest speaker is Dr Suzanne Metlay, full-time
faculty at Western Governors University, and the title of her presentation is “Space Race
2019: China, Israel, & India on the Moon”.
While the United States plans to return to lunar exploration in the next
few years, China’s Yutu-2 rover is already there,
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Our speaker for this evening will be Dustin Putnam from Ball Aerospace in Boulder and the title of his talk will be “Kepler Space Telescope – Search for Exoplanets”.
Planets orbit nearly every star in the galaxy, but how did astronomers make this groundbreaking discovery? Much of the credit goes to the Kepler Space Telescope,
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Our speaker for this evening will be Dr Dan Durda from Southwest Research Institute in Boulder and the title of his talk will be “All These Worlds: The Exoplanet Revolution”.
For generations we’ve wondered whether we are alone in the Universe. Thanks in large part to space missions like Kepler,
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Dawn McCoyThe March Public Talk has been posted on our YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/LTOSTARKIDS
Introduction to the Night Sky
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Dawn McCoyThe February Public Talk has been posted on our YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/LTOSTARKIDS
Jets, Outflows and Explosions: Star and Planet Formation in Orion
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