The March Public Talk has been posted on our YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/LTOSTARKIDS
Introduction to the Night Sky
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March Video Posted
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Dawn McCoy
Dawn McCoyFebruary Video Posted
by Dawn McCoy
Dawn McCoyThe February Public Talk has been posted on our YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/LTOSTARKIDS
Jets, Outflows and Explosions: Star and Planet Formation in Orion
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Public Star Night 19 April 2019 – Dr John Spencer – “The Furthest Flyby”.
Our
speaker for this evening will be Dr John Spencer from Southwest Research
Institute in Boulder and the title of his talk will be “The Furthest Flyby: New
Horizons Visits Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69”.
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Public Star Night 15 March 2019 – Bill Tschumy – Introduction to the Night Sky
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 Feb 2019 – Prof John Bally – Star & Planet Formation in Orion
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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The January Public Talk has been posted
by Dawn McCoy
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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The December Public Talk has been posted
by Dawn McCoy
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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Spring Fundraiser at City Star Brewing 4/13/2019
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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Winter Solstice Fundraiser at City Star Brewing
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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Public Star Night – Friday 18 January 2019 – Tim Gasparrini – GOES Weather Satellites
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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