Our guest speaker is Mike Roos, from Fort Collins, and the title of his presentation is “Messier Marathon in slides”.
During the late 1700’s, Charles Messier, a French astronomer and comet hunter, made a list of objects that are NOT comets, so that he wouldn’t have to repeatedly deal with them during his comet hunts.
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Dawn McCoyOur January video has been posted on YouTube
Dr Gordon MacAlpine, Cosmology with Quasars!
https://youtu.be/aqlCV4inuBA
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Our speaker for this evening will be Dr John Spencer from the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder and the title of his talk will be “NASA’s New Horizons Mission to Pluto and beyond”.
On July 14th 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made the first-ever encounter with the dwarf planet Pluto,
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John HiattOur December video has been posted on YouTube
Robert Ayala, Astronomica Symphonica!
https://youtu.be/TQexJm065RE
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Our guest speaker is Dr Gordon MacAlpine, and the title of his presentation is “Cosmology with Quasars: Dinosaurs of the Universe”.
This will be a public talk and PowerPoint presentation suitable for all ages. Dr MacAlpine will discuss what quasars are, how they were discovered,
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John HiattVideos of our October and November public night talks have been posted on our YouTube Channel. If you missed a talk, here’s your chance to catch up on some great presentations!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKjkehglVGl-oV6eEwWsiVA
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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 guest speaker is Robert Ayala, a librarian at the Loveland Public Library, and the title of his presentation is “Astronomica Symphonica”.
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Our guest speaker is Scott Kindt, who has been science teacher at Berthoud High School since 1995, where he is able to use astro-photography as a way to get students interested in Astronomy. Scott Kindt has been taking astro-photos for the past two decades. As a young boy, he observed the moon through a small telescope as the Apollo Astronauts navigated the lunar surface.
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John HiattOur September video has been posted on YouTube
Ray Martin, Ramblings of an Old Stargeezer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6FvTMaVBpA
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Space…the final frontier…is really the busiest stuff you’ve never heard of. In this month’s presentation, John will introduce you to the physics of empty space. Most of the universe is empty nothingness and most of every atom is empty nothingness – or are they? Might there be a mysterious ether that galaxies and planets swim in,
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