Our speakers for this evening will be Paul Hemmick and Shawn Dahl from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Boulder, CO.
Paul Hemmick will introduce us to the NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps. The NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps, is one of seven federal uniformed services of the United States and operates under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
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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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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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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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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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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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Our guest speaker for Friday August 21 2015 will be former astronaut Joseph “Joe” Tanner. The title of his talk will be “Exploration”.
Joe Tanner grew up in Danville, Illinois, and studied at the University of Illinois where he graduated in 1973 with a BSc degree in mechanical engineering.
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Our guest speaker is Dr Suzanne Metlay. The title of her talk is “Geosciences of Dwarf Planets”
Dwarf planets are small worlds with atmospheres and maybe fluids interacting with their rocky/icy surfaces. Let’s look at the geology and meteorology of Ceres and Pluto using the latest data and images from the DAWN and NEW HORIZONS missions.
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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 “Quantum Mechanics for 5th Graders”.
In this month’s presentation, John Ensworth will take you through the simple observations of the world that force physicists to accept a whole set of strange behaviors seen in the very elements of nature at roughly the molecular size and downward.
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