Our speaker for this evening will be our own volunteer and co-author of SkySafari, Bill Tschumy.
Amateur astronomy is in many ways an intellectual pursuit. What may look like a faint smudge in the telescope only comes alive when you truly grasp what it is you are looking at.
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Public Star Night – 15 February 2019 – Prof John Bally – Star & Planet Formation in Orion
Our speaker for this evening will be Prof John Bally from the CU Boulder, (john.bally@colorado.edu). New observations with ALMA, CARMA, adaptive optics, and space-based observatories are changing our understanding of star and planet formation.
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Dawn McCoyThe January Public Talk has been posted on our YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/LTOSTARKIDS
Tim Gasparrini talks about “GOES Next-Generation Weather Satellites”
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Dawn McCoyThe December Public Talk has been posted on our YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/LTOSTARKIDS
Scott Kindt talks about “The Science Behind SETI”
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Our next event at City Star will be on Saturday, April 13th at 6:00 pm. This will be a fundraiser for Little Thompson Observatory. Mark your calendars and tell your friends. Hope to see all of our LTO friends there!
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We will have an outreach event at City Star Brewing in Berthoud on Friday 21 December from 6pm to 9pm. We are looking for a few volunteers with telescopes to join us and allow patrons to observe objects in the night sky. If you don’t have a telescope, just come and enjoy a beer while helping LTO!
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Our Speaker this month is Tim Gasparrini. Mr. Gasparrini is the GOES-R program manager and vice president at Lockheed Martin Aerospace who is the builder of the GOES spacecraft. Tim will tell us about the GOES program, its mission and history and the new GOES-17 spacecraft which was just launched in March of this year.
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Dawn McCoyThe November Public Talk has been posted on our YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/LTOSTARKIDS
Sarah Scoles talks about “A History of False Alien Positives”
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Dawn McCoy
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Our speaker for this evening is our LTO Board Member and Science and Astronomy Teacher at Berthoud High School Scott Kindt. The title of his talk will be “The Science behind our Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence”.
Is intelligent alien life widespread throughout the cosmos or are we alone?
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