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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