AAA Lecture – The Antikythera Mechanism: a Box of Astronomical Delights
ZoomJoin us for our December lecture in our 2023-24 AAA Lecture Series with speaker Alexander Jones of New York University. The topic will be: The…
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Astro News Hour #9
ZoomA FREE, bimonthly, single class about developments in astronomy.
Background presentation with Q&A and class discussion.
Feature- Gravitational Waves and their newest detections.
Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, 7-8:15 PM. Click title for details.
AAA Lecture – Megamasers, Black Holes, and Cosmology
ZoomJoin us for the first lecture in our 2023-24 AAA Lecture Series with speaker Jim Braatz of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. The topic will…
AAVSO- Experts on the study of variable stars
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Meet AAVSO- The American Association of Variable Star Observers
Learn the seminal insights on stars, galaxies, and exoplanets based on variable stars.
Three Wednesdays: Oct. 18, 25, Nov. 1 via Zoom, 7-9 PM. $35/45(non-member).
Click on course title for more information, and a bonus talk about binary stars.
$35 – $45
Astro News Hour #8
ZoomA FREE, bimonthly, single-evening class about developments in astronomy.
Background presentation with Q&A and class discussion.
Feature- Betelgeuse (in Orion) is varying in brightness. Should we be alarmed it could become a supernova?
Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023, 7-8:15 PM. Click title for details.
Basics of Astronomy and the Solar System (2023)
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Virtual Event
Thursdays, 7 PM, online, September 14 – October 19.
A beginning course in astronomy.
Details, registration in mid-August
Members $75, Non-members $85
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$75 – $85
Smorgasbord on Eclipses
Zoom
Virtual Event
Tuesdays, July 11, 18, 25; August 1, 8 at 7–9 PM, online. Reduced tuition, $60.
Broad info on eclipses and the coming Oct. 14 and April 8 solar eclipses.
***Link posted to watch March 21 preview by Stan Honda..***
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$60
Physics in Astronomy (2023)
ZoomAn introduction to telescopes, force and motion, gravity, orbits, stars, light, relativity.
Wednesdays, 7-9 PM, online, June 14 to July 19.
Click title for more information.$75
$75
Astro News Hour #7
ZoomA FREE, bimonthly, single-evening class about developments in astronomy.
Background presentation with Q&A and class discussion.
Featured story– NASA's newly launched "JUICE" mission to Jupiter
Tuesday, Jun 20, 2023, 7-8:15 PM.
Registration now open. Click title for details.
Stellarium Workshop (2023)
Zoom
Virtual Event
Learn a widely used, FREE astronomy program. Download software ASAP.
Image the sky from anywhere on Earth or in space, anytime past, present, future.
Wednesday's, 7-9 PM, May 3, 10, 17, 24, 31; June 7.
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$75
AAA Lecture – Toxic Titan
Zoom
Virtual Event
Join us for the last lecture in our 2022-23 AAA Lecture Series with speaker Dr. Sarah Horst from Johns Hopkins University. The topic will be:…
Radio and Multiwavelength Astronomy (2023)
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Virtual Event
Wednesdays, 7-9 PM online. Feb 22; March 1, 8, 15, 22, 29; April 12
Part I- Introduction to waves and multiwavelength astronomy spanning gamma, X-ray, UV, visible, IR, microwave, radio.
Part II - focus on radio astronomy, major radio telescopes, and key revelations about the universe uncovered by radio waves.
Two instructors.
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$75