General Meeting – December 2024

Irvine Lecture Hall of the Chapman University 336 N Center St, Orange, CA, United States

This is a free and open to the public hybrid event, held both inperson and online. Due to the newly effective insurance requirements, we regret that we can not allow people under 18 on the Chapman Campus, they are welcome to attend online.  Join Zoom This meeting's speaker will present online from Michigan.   NASA's […]

Event Series Open Spiral Bar

Open Spiral Bar

Online

This is a free and open to the public online event. Join Zoom   Come and socialize with your fellow astronomy enthusiasts face-to-face virtually! Bring your latest astrophotography, mini-presentation, questions or none and your own refreshments.

General Meeting – January 2025

Irvine Lecture Hall of the Chapman University 336 N Center St, Orange, CA, United States

This is a free and open to the public hybrid event, held both inperson and online. Due to the newly effective insurance requirements, we regret that we can not allow people under 18 on the Chapman Campus, they are welcome to attend online.  Join Zoom This meeting's speaker will present online from Arizona.   Rubin’s […]

Event Series Open Spiral Bar

Open Spiral Bar

Online

This is a free and open to the public online event. Join Zoom   Come and socialize with your fellow astronomy enthusiasts face-to-face virtually! Bring your latest astrophotography, mini-presentation, questions or none and your own refreshments.

Event Series Open Spiral Bar

Open Spiral Bar

Online

This is a free and open to the public online event. Join Zoom   Come and socialize with your fellow astronomy enthusiasts face-to-face virtually! Bring your latest astrophotography, mini-presentation, questions or none and your own refreshments.

General Meeting – February 2025

Irvine Lecture Hall of the Chapman University 336 N Center St, Orange, CA, United States

This is a free and open to the public hybrid event, held both inperson and online. Due to the newly effective insurance requirements, we regret that we can not allow people under 18 on the Chapman Campus, they are welcome to attend online.  Join Zoom This meeting's speaker will present inperson.   44 years as […]

General Meeting – March 2025

Irvine Lecture Hall of the Chapman University 336 N Center St, Orange, CA, United States

 Join Zoom This meeting's speaker will present inperson.   Mars Helicopter Telecom   The highly successful Ingenuity - Mars Helicopter - technology demonstration came to an end in January 2024 after 72 flights over 1000 sols (1.5 Mars years) exploring Mars.  The author led the telecommunications team for Ingenuity from conception through flight operations and […]

General Meeting – April 2025

Irvine Lecture Hall of the Chapman University 336 N Center St, Orange, CA, United States

 Join Zoom This meeting's speaker will present inperson.   NASA’s Cold Atom Lab:   Quantum Science   and Technology Maturation   on the International Space Station   NASA’s Cold Atom Lab (CAL) launched to the International Space Station (ISS) in May 2018, and has been operating since that time as the world’s first and only […]

General Meeting – May 2025

Irvine Lecture Hall of the Chapman University 336 N Center St, Orange, CA, United States

 Join Zoom This meeting's speaker will present live from Albany, NY.   Fast Radio Bursts-Signals   from Across the Universe   This artist’s impression (not to scale) illustrates the path of the fast radio burst FRB 20220610A, from the distant galaxy where it originated all the way to Earth, in one of the Milky Way’s […]

General Meeting – June 2025

Irvine Lecture Hall of the Chapman University 336 N Center St, Orange, CA, United States

 Join Zoom This meeting's speaker will present online from Los Angeles.   A Trip to the Center of Our Galaxy     The heart of the Milky Way is home to Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole approximately four million times the mass of the Sun. Although it remains largely quiet today, it is surrounded by […]