Calendar of Upcoming Lectures
Date | Speaker | Topic |
2017 | ||
January 8 | Jennifer Stern | Chemical Ingredients for Life on Mars |
February 12 | Cal Powell | A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Meteorites |
March 12 | Ed Witkowski | A Survey of Open Clusters |
April 9 | Milt Roney | Choosing LEDs for Street Lighting |
May 7 | Karl Battams | Comets: From the Ordinary to the Extraordinary |
June 11 | Bill Cannon | The Sudbury Meteor Impact Event |
July 9 | Paul Butler | Extrasolar Planets |
August 13 | Pete Johnson | Amateur Telescope Making (ATM) for the 21st Century |
September 10 | W. Dean Pesnell | SDO, The Sun, The Universe |
October 8 | John C. Mather | The History of the Universe from the Beginning to the End |
November 12 | Dr. Russel A. Howard | Observations of the White Light Solar Corona |
December 10 | NOVAC Members | Show and Tell / Swap Meet |
2018 |
Calendar of Previous Lectures
Date | Speaker | Topic |
January 8, 2012 |
Cal Powell | A Survey of Star Atlases |
February 12 | Roman Shcherbakov | Eating Habits of Sagittarius A* |
March 11 | Raphael Perrino | The Dawn of Exoearths |
April 8 | Mike Summers | The New Horizons Mission [Video] |
May 6 | Peter Gural | Video Meteor Astronomy and Surveillance |
June 10 | Jane Rigby | James Webb Space Telescope [Video] |
July 8 | Gary Hand | The Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope |
August 12 | Lori Feaga | Cometary Exploration |
September 9 | Stephen Ramsden | Solar Activity and Terrestrial Risk Mitigation [Video] |
October 14 | Larry Evans | The Messenger Mission to Mercury |
November 11 | Show and Tell | All are welcome to bring their telescopes |
December 9 | Tom Jones | Earth-Moon Space: The Art of the Possible, 2012-2022 [Video] |
January 13, 2013 | Gideon Bass | Kepler Studies of Low-Mass Eclipsing Binaries [Video] [PDF] |
February 10 | Eric Douglass | Types of Observable Lunar Craters [Video] [PDF] |
March 10 | Andrea Jones | Mars Exploration Missions and Future [Video] [PDF] |
April 14 | Gianluca Masi | The Virtual Telescope Project |
May 5 | Madhulika Guhathakurta | Space Weather Storms: Not If, But When [Video] [PDF] |
June 9 | Will Marchant | The NuSTAR Mission [Video] |
July 14 | Kirk Borne | Big Data, Small World |
August 11 | Jason Lee | Non-Polar Coronal Jets |
September 8 | (no meeting – AHSP) | |
October 13 | Bob Weigel | An Introduction to Space Weather |
November 10 | Daniel Reichart | Outreach Growth for Skynet |
December 8 | Show and Tell | All are welcome to bring their telescopes |
January 12, 2014 | Sten Odenwald | Mind, Space and Cosmos: Exploring the mystery of space and how we think about it |
February 9 | Alan Goldberg | Big Data in Astronomy |
March 9 | Timothy Livengood | Mars: A World Where Air Goes to Sleep at Night |
April 13 | Duncan Lorimer | Fast Radio Bursts [PDF] |
May 4 | Gary Hand | Amateur Astronomy: 1994, Today, and 2034 |
June 8 | Exhibition | All are welcome to bring their telescopes and binoculars |
July 13 | Kevin Quin | Introduction to Astrophotography |
August 19 | Sean McWilliams | Theory and Production of Gravitational Waves |
September 14 | Chip Sufitchi | Beginning Radioastronomy |
October 12 | Shobita Satyapal | Supermassive Black Holes |
November 9 | Bob Murphy | The Moon in the Landscape |
December 14 | Joleen Carlberg | The Fiery Fates of Exoplanets [Video] |
January 11, 2015 | Ed Witkowski | Observing and Understanding Star Clusters [Video] |
February 8 | Greg Redfern | The Future of U.S. Manned Spaceflight [Video] |
March 8 | Loren Anderson | Exploring the H II Regions of Galaxies [Video] |
April 12 | Sten Odenwald | Solar Storms: 2000 Years of Calamity [Video] |
May 3 | Alberto Bolatto | Radio Astronomy with ALMA [Video] |
June 14 | D.J. Pisano | How Galaxies Form and Evolve [Video] |
July 12 | Philip Graff | The Gravitational Wave Universe and LIGO – 100 Years After Einstein [Video] |
August 9 | Marshall Eubanks | Asteroid Mining [Video] |
September 13 | Mike Summers | The New Horizons Mission to Pluto [Video] |
October 11 | Alan Goldberg | Meteors, Asteroids, and Comets in the Earth Neighborhood |
November 8 | Bob Traube | Astrophotography for Beginners [Video] |
December 13 | Sarah Hörst | Titan as a Prebiotic Chemical System [Video] |
2016 | ||
January 10 | Exhibition | All are welcome to bring their telescopes and binoculars |
February 14 | Timothy Rodigas | High Resolution Views of Planets and Disks [Video] |
March 13 | Mark “Indy” Kochte | The New Horizons to Pluto [Video] |
April 10 | Cal Powell | Re-envisioning the Big Bang [Video] |
May 1 | Show and Tell | Accessories to Improve Your Astronomical Observing |
June 12 | Jim Chen | How to Find the Apollo Landing Sites [Video] |
July 10 | John Higbee | Classic Telescopes of the 1960s [Video] |
August 14 | Pete Gentile | The Study of Pulsars to Detect Gravitational Waves |
September 11 | Marshall Eubanks | The Upcoming Exploration of Europa |
October 9 | Tom Jones | When Rocks Attack |
November 13 | Rebecca Ljungren |
Decoding Starlight – Spectroscopy: History, How it Works & Applications for Researchers and Amateur Astronomers |
December 11 | Volunteer Appreciation Night | Reception and awards for NOVAC volunteers |
Our Past Speakers
Loren Anderson | |
Brent Bailey | |
Gideon Bass | |
Karl Battams | |
Chris Bodine | |
Alberto Bolatto | |
Kirk Borne | |
Guy Brandenburg | |
Paul Butler | |
Bill Cannon | |
Joleen Carlberg | |
Jim Chen | |
Andy Clegg | |
Neil Cronin | |
James Dewar | |
Eric Douglass | |
Marshall Eubanks | |
Larry Evans | |
Lori Feaga | |
Tom Finkenbinder | |
Derek Fox | |
Sylvester Gates | |
Pamela Gay | |
Harold Geller | |
Pete Gentile | |
Alan Goldberg | |
Philip Graff | |
Madhulika Guhathakurta |
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Peter Gural | |
Gary Hand | |
John Higbee | |
Tom Hill | |
Sarah Hörst | |
Shayna Hume | |
Pete Johnson | |
Andrea Jones | |
Tom Jones | |
Warren Keller | |
Ruben Kier | |
Mark Kochte | |
Jason Lee | |
Timothy Livengood | |
Duncan Lorimer | |
Rebecca Ljungren | |
John Manzer | |
Will Marchant | |
Gianluca Masi | |
Allan Mayer | |
Sean McWilliams | |
Bob Murphy | |
Steven Noneman | |
Sten Odenwald | |
Christopher Palma | |
Bob Parks | |
Raphael Perrino | |
W. Dean Pesnell | |
D.J. Pisano | |
Art Poland | |
Cal Powell | |
Emma Puranen | |
Kevin Quin | |
Stephen Ramsden | |
Luisa Rebull | |
Greg Redfern | |
Daniel Reichart | |
Kenneth Reightler | |
Jane Rigby | |
Timothy Rodigas | |
Milt Roney | |
Jessica Rosenberg | |
Takeshi Sakamoto | |
Shobita Satyapal | |
Roman Scherbakov | |
Jennifer Stern | |
Amber Straughn | |
Chip Sufitchi | |
Mike Summers | |
Bob Traube | |
Elizabeth Wallace | |
John Wallin | |
Elizabeth Warner | |
Bob Weigel | |
Joe Weingartner | |
Bryan Wilburn | |
Ed Witkowski | |
Robert Zimmerman |
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