Join us October 3rd as James Loftus presents: Growing Up With The Astronauts Speaker: James Loftus, director of the JPLMuseum* in Stayton, OR James will bring a few NASA artifacts from his father’s collection: a plug extracted from the Apollo 11 command module heat shield and a hyper-velocity impact demonstration piece. He will discuss our museum’s … Read more
Astronomical Sketching Our Speaker: Howard Banich “Sketching at the eyepiece is a time-honored means of disciplining the observer’s vision to see all that’s detecatable on a given night” Howard Banich made his first astronomical sketch in 1973. He will describe his process from the first rough sketches to the smoothly finished drawings published in Sky … Read more
Spectroscopy has told humanity more about the true nature of stars and planets than all other tools of the astronomer combined. Our speaker this month, Richard Berry, tells a few tales about Astro–Spectroscopy what we learn by “breaking” starlight into a spectrum.
