Our guest speaker for this public star night will be Dr Vicky Hamilton from Boulder’s Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), and the topic of her talk will about the OSIRIS-REx mission.
The primary objective of NASA’s Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission is to return a pristine sample from the asteroid Bennu to help scientists understand the origin and evolution of our solar system,
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Our guest speaker for this public star night will be Allison Barto, the program manager for the James Webb Space telescope at Ball Aerospace.
Since the invention of the telescope over 400 years ago, humans have been building bigger and more powerful telescopes in a drive to better understand our amazing Universe.
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John HiattAttached is a flyer for our Annual Fund Raiser at City Star Brewery in downtown Berthoud on Saturday, March 24. We will do an afternoon solar viewing session between 3 – 5 pm and an evening viewing session from 6 – 9 pm. Hope you can join us and support our observatory.
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“ Is the world around you a computer simulation?” An exploration of information, artificial intelligence, and the thoughts of Elon Musk and Nick Bostrom.
Our guest speaker for this public star night will be our own volunteer and board member John Ensworth.
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Dawn McCoyOur February video has been posted on YouTube
Bill Possel, The Cassini Mission at Saturn!
https://www.youtube.com/user/LTOSTARKIDS
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Dawn McCoyOur January video has been posted on YouTube
Dr. Cherilynn Morrow, Chaco Astronomy!
https://www.youtube.com/user/LTOSTARKIDS
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Our guest speaker for this public star night will be Bill Possel from Boulder’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and space Physics (LASP), and the topic of his talk will be “the Cassini Mission at Saturn – An Epic Ending to an Epic Mission”.
During its “Grand Finale,” the Cassini mission studied a never-before-explored region very close to Saturn.
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Dawn McCoyThe LTO Flyer for our February 16th Public Talk has been posted. Feel free to download and/or distribute – thanks! https://drive.google.com/open?id=1KaQP5APGZbl2U9q6x2kluqlKLEaMIM3v
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Dawn McCoyOur December video has been posted on YouTube
Dr. John Ensworth, Star of Wonder!
https://www.youtube.com/user/LTOSTARKIDS
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Our guest speaker for this public star night will be Dr Cherilynn Morrow and the topic of her talk will be about the astronomy of Chaco Culture National Historic Park.
The presentation for Little Thompson Observatory will offer an educational and entertaining description of astronomy and archaeo-astronomy at the remote Chaco Culture National Historical Park in northwestern New Mexico,
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