Our speaker for this public star night will be Ray Martin from Laramie, WY. The title of his talk will be “Ramblings of an Old Stargeezer”
With 60 years plus as both an amateur and professional astronomer there are tales to be told like the time he held the focuser of Hale’s 12-inch refractor in his hands under the floor of the 40” at Yerkes or how he kanoodled his way into the 200” dome with 20 of his friends and colleagues from the Hughes Astronomy Club,
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Friday, 19 August 2016 from 7:00 – 11:00 PM Public Star Night at the Little Thompson Observatory, 850 Spartan Ave at Berthoud High School (park east of the high school; directions are posted on our website www.starkids.org )
Our speaker for this evening will be Dr Dayton Jones from the Space Science Institute in Boulder,
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Our speaker for this public star night will be Dr Suzanne Metlay from Western Governors University. Her talk will be about the “Five Moons of Pluto”
Charon and the other moons of Pluto have been revealed by the New Horizons spacecraft to be fascinating worlds. Using the latest imagery from NASA,
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Our guest speaker for Friday May 20, 2016 will be Christl Findling from Ball Aerospace. The title of her talk will be “An Atmosphere worth pursuing”
A small vacuum chamber, a balloon, a marshmallow, a can of shaving cream and a bowl of water – these may not seem like the typical contents of an engineer’s toolbox,
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Our guest speaker for Friday April 15, 2016 will be Dr Travis Metcalfe from the Space Science Institute. The title of his talk will be “Searching for planets around other stars”
The past two decades have witnessed accelerating progress on one of the most fundamental questions in
astronomy: Are we alone in the Universe?
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Our speaker will be Brian Enke from the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder and the title of his talk will be “Where will NASA build its first research facility on Mars?”
Since 2006, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) mission has dazzled planetary scientists with stunning visual imagery of Mars at resolutions up to 25 cm/pixel.
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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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