Due to the current Corona Virus pandemic environment, we have decided to suspend our operations and all activities, including public star night, for the rest of March 2020.
At the end of March we will reassess this decision and update you on our next actions.
Contact met meinte@starkids.org if you have any questions
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After our very successful January Public Star
Night on the Importance of Dark Skies, we have decided to follow this up with
the screening of the movie “The City Dark” from film maker Ian Cheney.
THE CITY DARK chronicles the disappearance of
darkness. The film follows filmmaker (and amateur astronomer) Ian Cheney,
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Our guest speaker for this public star night will be Dr. Emily
Hardegree-Ullman. The title of her
presentation is “Erased from History”.
Einstein, Hawking, Hubble. Ask a stranger to
name a famous astronomers and 9 times out of 10 they will think of a man.
Despite the incredible contributions of women to astronomy,
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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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