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SUMMARY:Online General Meeting - April 2022
DESCRIPTION:This is a free and open to the public online event. \nJoin Zoom\n  \n\nThe End of the Beginning\n  \n\n\n\n\n\nWe used to think the Big Bang meant the universe began from a singularity. Nearly 100 years later\, we’re not so sure. The Big Bang teaches us that our expanding\, cooling universe used to be younger\, denser\, and hotter in the past. However\, extrapolating all the way back to a singularity leads to predictions that disagree with what we observe. Instead\, cosmic inflation preceded and set up the Big Bang\, changing our cosmic origin story forever.\n\nDownload PDF of the presentation\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEthan has lived his life fascinated with one simple fact: we have the capacity to figure out definitive\, scientific answers to even the deepest questions we can conceive about our physical reality. We do that by asking the right questions about the Universe\, and then putting the Universe itself to the test. From where everything comes from to the Universe’s ultimate fate and all that lies between\, he’s committed to not just figuring it out\, but to sharing the answers — what we know and how we know it — with anyone curious enough to listen.\n\n\nhttps://www.startswithabang.com/\n\n\nhttps://twitter.com/StartsWithABang\nhttps://www.facebook.com/startswithabang\n\nViews: 4
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/general-meeting-2022-04/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:General Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220312T220000
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SUMMARY:Open Spiral Bar
DESCRIPTION:This is a free and open to the public online event. \nJoin Zoom\n  \nCome and socialize with your fellow astronomy enthusiasts face-to-face virtually!\nBring your latest astrophotography\, mini-presentation\, questions or none and your own refreshments. \n \nViews: 4
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/open-spiral-bar-2022-03/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Meeting After the Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220311T193000
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SUMMARY:Online General Meeting - March 2022
DESCRIPTION:This is a free and open to the public online event. \nJoin Zoom\n  \n\nBringing Astronomy Alive:\n\n\n  \n\nStudent Engagement at\n\n\n  \n\n\nJohn Abbott College\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe non-traditional approach to Introductory Astronomy at John Abbott College (Montreal\, Canada) puts the depth and direction of content in the hands of the students\, utilizing partnerships with RASC Montreal Centre and other Outreach Organizations to mentor students in observational techniques\, provide access to amateur and professional Astronomical data\, and introduce students to public outreach.\n\n\n\nRecognizing the available access to recent discoveries and current data that best represent the direction of space sciences\, each student is given an opportunity to put their stamp on the learning outcomes of the course. Combining this with non-compulsory astronomy activities with RASC – Montreal Centre allows students to embrace the field in a manner that best suits their interests and motivation\, resulting in novel labs and incredibly diverse term projects\, and several initiatives that have moved beyond the scope of the Introductory Astronomy Course. Other departments and courses at the college are now taking advantage of the Astronomy activities to engage their students beyond the classroom.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProf. Karim Jaffer joined the Physics Faculty at John Abbott College (JAC) in 2006\, with active projects in STEM education and pedagogical development. When Karim began teaching Introductory Astronomy in 2016 he developed a unique student-directed\, just-in-time teaching approach incorporating current astronomical data\, research\, and including experiential learning opportunities.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the amateur astronomy community Karim has been the Public Events Coordinator for the RASC Montreal Centre since 2016\, helping re-establish the I.K.Williamson Astronomy Library and coordinating both public events and outreach activities throughout the Montreal area\, cultivating partnerships with the Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium\, the Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx)\, the Cosmodome\, Explore Alliance\, the Astronomical League\, AstroRadio\, CASCA and many local amateur astronomy groups\, in addition to mentoring several Student Astronomy clubs and coordinating visits to local schools\, guides\, scouts and libraries.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKarim is a member of the National RASC Education and Public Outreach Committee and the 2021 recipient of the Charles M Good Award.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nwww.rascmontreal.org/titan\n\n\n\n\n\n\nViews: 4
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/general-meeting-2022-03/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Karim Jaffer":MAILTO:karim.jaffer@johnabbott.qc.ca
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SUMMARY:Open Spiral Bar
DESCRIPTION:This is a free and open to the public online event. \nJoin Zoom\n  \nCome and socialize with your fellow astronomy enthusiasts face-to-face virtually!\nBring your latest astrophotography\, mini-presentation\, questions or none and your own refreshments. \n \nViews: 4
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/open-spiral-bar-2022-02/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Meeting After the Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220211T193000
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SUMMARY:Online General Meeting - February 2022
DESCRIPTION:This is a free and open to the public online event. \nJoin Zoom\n  \nDragonfly: Exploring an Organic Rich Moon\n  \n \nTitan is the only moon in our solar system with a dense atmosphere\, which supports an Earth-like hydrological cycle of methane clouds\, rain\, lakes\, and seas. Complex organic surface materials may preserve\, in a deep freeze\, the types of organic chemicals that would have been present on Earth before life developed. Titan’s icy crust floats atop an interior liquid water ocean. The Dragonfly mission to Titan will characterize its habitability and determine how far prebiotic chemistry has progressed in environments known to provide the necessary ingredients for life. The mission comprises a single rotorcraft lander with a sophisticated scientific payload\, designed to take advantage of Titan’s environment\, and achieve wide-ranging exploration by flying to sites in different geologic settings. \n \nDr. Melissa Trainer\nDr. Melissa Trainer is a planetary scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) with expertise in the composition of planetary atmospheres and the production of organic molecules and aerosols via in situ synthesis pathways. She has spent more than a decade characterizing the properties of Titan and early Earth aerosol analogs\, with publications on the chemical\, optical\, and isotopic properties of organic hazes. Dr. Trainer is a member of the Mars Science Laboratory Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument team\, for which she led the campaign to conduct the first in situ multi-year study of the seasonal variations of the composition of the Mars atmosphere through surface mass spectrometry measurements. Dr. Trainer currently serves as a Deputy Principal Investigator (PI) for the Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s moon Titan\, part of the NASA Planetary Science New Frontiers Program. She is also the lead for the Dragonfly Mass Spectrometer (DraMS)\, which enables the investigation of Titan’s surface composition and characterization of potential prebiotic chemistry. \nhttps://dragonfly.jhuapl.edu/ \nhttps://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/solarsystem/ \n  \n  \nViews: 4
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/general-meeting-2022-02/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220114T193000
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SUMMARY:Online General Meeting - January 2022
DESCRIPTION:This is a free and open to the public online event\, to attend please register with zoom by clicking here. \nPsyche: Journey to a Metal World\n  \n  \n \nNASA selected Psyche as the 14th Discovery mission on Jan. 4\, 2017. Led by Arizona State University\, Psyche will be the first orbiter of a M-class asteroid\, (16) Psyche. The mission design is based on NASA’s Dawn mission at Vesta & Ceres\, and uses instruments with a strong heritage from past missions. Our science objectives are to answer the following questions: 1) Is Psyche an exposed planetary core\, or did it never undergo melting? 2) What are the relative ages of features on its surface? 3) Do small metal-rich bodies incorporate light elements expected to be inside Earth’s high-pressure core? 4) Did Psyche form under more oxidizing or more reducing conditions than Earth’s core? and 5) What is the topography of this metal world? Psyche will launch in Aug. 2022 and will enter orbit of (16) Psyche in Jan. 2026 for a 21-month nominal mission. Psyche will study the surface using a pair of multispectral imagers (clear filter & 7 color filters\, for surface morphology\, stereo topography\, and detection of certain key mineral classes)\, a gamma-ray & neutron spectrometer (for elemental abundances)\, and dual fluxgate magnetometers (to search for a remanent magnetic field). A gravity investigation using tracking of the spacecraft’s radio signal is also planned. Psyche will characterize surficial geologic features\, topography\, and compositions through four consecutively lower orbital phases\, each optimized to obtain data to accomplish our science objectives. Psyche will: 1) map ≥80% of the surface with long-l filters at ≤500m/pix (assess metal to silicate fraction)\, 2) map ≥80% of the surface with short-l filters at ≤200m/pix (spectral detection of oldhamite\, (Ca\,Mg)S)\, 3) map ≥50% of the surface with clear filter at ≤200m/pix (crater counting)\, 4) map ≥80% of the surface with clear filter at ≤20m/pix (geologic mapping)\, and 5) determine the shape of (16) Psyche by mapping with clear filter over ≥80% of its surface with ≤200m/pix using stereo imaging techniques. This presentation discusses details of our mission. \n \nDr. David A. Williams is a Research Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University\, Tempe\, Arizona. Dr. Williams is the Director of the Ronald Greeley Center for Planetary Studies\, a NASA-supported planetary data center at ASU. He is also the Director of the NASA Planetary Aeolian Laboratory\, which administers wind tunnels the Ames Research Center in California. David is currently performing research in volcanology and planetary geology\, with a focus on planetary mapping\, geochemical\, and remote sensing studies. His current research focusses on planetary geologic mapping of bodies across the Solar System\, and computer modeling of the physical and geochemical evolution of lava flows in a variety of planetary environments. He was involved with NASA’s Magellan Mission to Venus\, Galileo Mission to Jupiter\, Dawn Mission to asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres\, and ESA’s Mars Express orbiter mission.  He is a member of the Janus camera team for the ESA JUICE mission\, and he is currently Deputy Imager Lead and a Co-Investigator on NASA’s Psyche Mission\, scheduled to launch in August 2022.  In 2014 David was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of America\, and asteroid 10\,461 DAWILLIAMS was named in his honor. \n  \nASU Psyche Mission:  https://psyche.asu.edu/ \nJPL Psyche Mission:  https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/psyche \nWebsite:  https://rgcps.asu.edu/dawilliams/ \nFacebook:  https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=10023395 \nTwitter:  @davidaw222 \nInstagram:  @davidaw222 \nViews: 4
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/general-meeting-2022-01/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:General Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220108T220000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220108T233000
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SUMMARY:Open Spiral Bar
DESCRIPTION:This is a free and open to the public online event. \nJoin Zoom\n\nCome and socialize with your fellow astronomy enthusiasts face-to-face virtually!\nBring your latest astrophotography\, mini-presentation\, questions or none and your own refreshments. \n \nViews: 4
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/open-spiral-bar-2022-01/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Meeting After the Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211211T220000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211211T233000
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SUMMARY:Open Spiral Bar
DESCRIPTION:This is a free and open to the public online event\, to attend please register with zoom by clicking here. \nCome and socialize with your fellow astronomy enthusiasts face-to-face virtually!\nBring your latest astrophotography\, mini-presentation\, questions or none and your own refreshments. \n \nViews: 4
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/open-spiral-bar-2021-12/
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CATEGORIES:Meeting After the Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211210T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211210T213000
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SUMMARY:Online General Meeting - December 2021
DESCRIPTION:This is a free and open to the public online event\, to attend please register with zoom by clicking here. \n  \n\nAn Antarctic Odyssey: Winter-Over at South Pole Station\n\n \n\n  \nIn a lavishly illustrated presentation\, John W. Briggs of New Mexico will describe his year-long experience living at the Geographic South Pole while working for the Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica.  In preparation for this at Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago\, John was a team member building a 24-inch infrared telescope and related experiments that were set up at the Pole in time for him and colleagues to observe the July\, 1994\, explosive crash of fragmented comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 into the planet Jupiter. \nJohn weathered the “winter-over” with 26 other members of the U.S. Antarctic Program in an experience that many believe approximates what life will be like someday at a lunar or Martian outpost.  Once begun\, South Pole winter-over is an irreversible commitment\, since the Program’s special LC-130 ski planes can’t land in the winter temperatures — in 1994\, sometimes as low as 107 degrees F. below zero (with windchill\, as low as -180 degrees).  John will delight the audience with his perspective on the total South Pole experience — the strange natural environment\, the odd social atmosphere\, and the challenging\, ongoing science. \n  \n\n \nJohn W. Briggs has lived and worked at far-ranging observatories in various technical capacities\, including Mount Wilson\, Yerkes\, National Solar\, Maria Mitchell\, Venezuelan National\, Chamberlin\, and South Pole Station.  He came to New Mexico with his family in 1997 to assist in the final commissioning of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey at Apache Point.  In the 1980s he was an assistant editor at Sky & Telescope magazine and built Bogsucker Observatory in Massachusetts.  He is a member of many astronomical organizations including the Springfield Telescope Makers responsible for the annual Stellafane Convention in Vermont\, and he has recently been elected to the board of the century-old American Association of Variable Star Observers.  His principal activity now involves the Astronomical Lyceum\, an informal museum\, library\, laboratory\, and lecture hall devoted to historical astronomy and its preservation\, located in a 1936 former school gymnasium-theater in Magdalena\, New Mexico.  In the middle 1980s he assisted the late Professor Edgar Everhart\, Director of Chamberlin Observatory\, in his well-known program of cometary astrometry.  John has many old friends in the Denver Astronomical Society.\nViews: 4
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/general-meeting-2021-12/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:General Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211210T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211210T213000
DTSTAMP:20260406T012515
CREATED:20211012T125237Z
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SUMMARY:Online General Meeting - December 2021
DESCRIPTION:This is a free and open to the public online event\, to attend please register with zoom by clicking here. \n  \n\nWhite Holes\n\n  \n\n  \nBlack holes are solutions of the Einstein equations long believed to be unphysical. Now we know they represent real things in the sky.\nWhite holes are solutions of the Einstein equations long believed to be unphysical. Can they represent real things in the sky?\n  \n\n  \nCarlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist known for his work in quantum gravity.  Born in Italy\, he has worked in the United States\, France and Canada. Rovelli is member of the Institute Universitaire de France\, honorary professor of the Beijing Normal University\, Honoris Causa Laureate of the Universidad de San Martin\, Buenos Aires\, member of the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences. In 1995 he has been awarded the Xanthopoulos Award for “the best relativist worldwide under forty”. He has written global best sellers among which are ‘Seven Brief Lesson on Physics’\, translated in 44 language\, ‘The Order of Time’ and the recent “Helgoland” on quantum theory.  He has been included by the Foreign Policy magazine in the 2019 list of the 100 most influential global thinkers.\nViews: 4
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/general-meeting-2021-12-1/
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CATEGORIES:General Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211113T220000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211113T233000
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CREATED:20210915T083347Z
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SUMMARY:Open Spiral Bar
DESCRIPTION:This is a free and open to the public online event\, to attend please register with zoom by clicking here. \nCome and socialize with your fellow astronomy enthusiasts face-to-face virtually!\nBring your latest astrophotography\, mini-presentation\, questions or none and your own refreshments. \n \nViews: 4
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/open-spiral-bar-2021-11/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Meeting After the Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211112T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211112T213000
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CREATED:20210909T071849Z
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SUMMARY:Online General Meeting - November 2021
DESCRIPTION:This is a free and open to the public online event\, to attend please register with zoom by clicking here. \nChasing the Northern Lights\n  \nAn aurora selfie taken during the display on April 16-17\, 2021\, with the Sony a7III and 15mm Laowa lens. \nAlan will provide advice on when and where to see the sky sight that is on the “bucket list” for many people\, the Northern Lights. He’ll include tips and techniques for capturing the aurora in stills\, time-lapses and real-time movies. He’ll illustrate the talk with images taken in Yellowknife and Churchill in northern Canada\, and in Norway\, as well as from his home in Alberta\, Canada. \n  \n \nAlan is co-author of the popular guidebook for amateur astronomers\, The Backyard Astronomer’s Guide\, just out in a greatly revised and thoroughly updated fourth edition\, and is author of the eBook\, How to Photograph and Process Nightscapes and Time-Lapses. Alan lives in Alberta\, Canada\, where the Northern Lights often appear in his skies\, but he also pursues the Lights to even more northern latitudes. Asteroid 78434 is named for him. \nhttp://amazingsky.com/ \nViews: 4
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/general-meeting-2021-11/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211009T220000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211009T233000
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CREATED:20210903T072316Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210920T173949Z
UID:10001133-1633816800-1633822200@www.ocastronomers.org
SUMMARY:Open Spiral Bar
DESCRIPTION:This is a free and open to the public online event\, to attend please register with zoom by clicking here. \nCome and socialize with your fellow astronomy enthusiasts face-to-face virtually!\nBring your latest astrophotography\, mini-presentation\, questions or none and your own refreshments. \n \nViews: 4
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/open-spiral-bar-2021-10/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Meeting After the Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211008T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211008T213000
DTSTAMP:20260406T012515
CREATED:20210824T185916Z
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SUMMARY:Online General Meeting - October 2021
DESCRIPTION:This is a free and open to the public online event\, to attend please register with zoom by clicking here.\n \nThe “What’s Up?” presentation at this meeting will feature an android app called “Mobile Observatory” those interested are advised to install it on their cell phone before the meeting by clicking here and then download the extended catalogue within the app.\n \nStars are not Spherical Cows\n  \n \n  \nStars are the sources of all the light we see in the universe. Whether we are investigating our own celestial neighborhood\nor the most distant corners of the universe\, we use stars as our beacons. The universe is mostly made of dark energy\, and galaxies and clusters mostly of dark matter. But it is stars like our sun that trace them all. Stars are not eternal balls of gas churning out energy from their nuclear furnaces. They are born\, they live\, and they die. The birth of stars is particularly important as it can be traced back to the birth and evolution of galaxies across cosmic times. I will review progress over the past decade in understanding how stars form out of the gas clouds that pervade galaxies\, and how this has helped with furthering our understanding of the universe. Space missions\, as well as advanced ground-based telescopes\, have played key roles in advancing our knowledge. With many challenges still ahead of us\, the way forward will require innovative thinking for the future missions and facilities that will enable humanity one day to say\, “We know where we came from.” \n \nDaniela Calzetti is an astronomer recognized for her investigations on the interstellar dust and star formation in external galaxies. Calzetti  obtained her PhD at the University of Rome in 1992. In 1990\, she became first an ESA Fellow and then a postdoc at the Space Telescope Science Institute (Baltimore\, MD\, U.S.A.). Here\, she was hired as an astronomer in 1995\, and worked on characterizing and supporting instrumentation on the Hubble Space Telescope for NASA. In 2007\, she moved to a faculty position at the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst\, where she is serving as the Head of the Astronomy Department since 2018. In 2013\, she was named the Blaauw Professor at the Kapteyn Observatory (University of Gröningen\, The Netherlands)\, and in 2016 she was awarded the Tage Erlander Guest Professorship by the Swedish Research Council\, which she spent at the University of Stockholm (Sweden). Calzetti was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020. \n  \nViews: 4
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/general-meeting-2021-10/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:General Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210911T220000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210911T233000
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SUMMARY:Open Spiral Bar
DESCRIPTION:This is a free online event\, to attend please register with zoom using the “View Event Website” link on the box above. \nCome and socialize with your fellow astronomy enthusiasts face-to-face virtually!\nBring your latest astrophotos\, mini-presentation\, questions or none and your own refreshments. \n \nViews: 4
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/open-spiral-bar-2021-09/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Meeting After the Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210910T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210910T213000
DTSTAMP:20260406T012515
CREATED:20210820T122150Z
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SUMMARY:Online General Meeting - September 2021
DESCRIPTION:This is a free online event\, to attend please register with zoom using the “View Event Website” link on the box above. \nRadio astronomy in South Africa:\n  \nBackground\, recent discoveries\, and role\n\n  \nin the development of the continent\n  \n \nOur understanding of the universe is being comprehensively revisited thanks to a new generation of telescopes that are true big data machines. A region of the world where astronomy is growing faster than anywhere else\, is probably Africa\, a continent not traditionally associated with groundbreaking astronomical research. In South Africa\, the radio astronomy community\, in particular\, has grown from merely present to broad and inclusive\, thanks to the country’s commitment to the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) radio telescope project\, and the home-grown human capacity development programme that accompanies it. \n \nThis presentation will set the context of this growth\, review a few recent discoveries made with the MeerKAT radio-telescope\, a 64-dish interferometer precursor to the SKA\, and discuss the many developments\, both scientific and social\, that have been triggered by the South African SKA project. Indeed\, the engagement into a scientific programme of this scale in Africa is not without broader impacts\, social\, economic and educational. \n \nIt will conclude with a view of the future\, and the scientific ambitions of a continent and a community now able to use Africa’s big skies to pursue big dreams. \nDr. Carolina Ödman\n \nDr. Ödman is Associate Professor at the University of the Western Cape\, South Africa. Trained in physics at EPFL in Switzerland\, she holds a PhD in cosmology from Cambridge University\, UK. After a Marie Curie postdoctoral research fellowship in Italy\, she grew an interest in education\, becoming the first international project manager of Universe Awareness\, an early childhood development program that uses the inspirational aspects of astronomy to stimulate children’s development in underprivileged environments. She led Universe Awareness for 5 years\, taking it from an idea to a global network of volunteers running projects in more than 40 countries. \n \nShe joined the South African Astronomical Observatory as an SKA Research Fellow working at the interface between astronomy and technology\, which she continues\, as founding member of the “.astronomy” (dot-astronomy) conference and hackathon series. She was Director of Academic Development for the Next Einstein Initiative before joining thumbzup\, a financial technology start-up as Chief Scientist. At thumbzup she set up a data science and analytics pipeline. In 2018\, she joined the Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy as Associate Director\, Development and Outreach. There\, she leads a number of initiatives\, including big data skills development\, and continues to do multidisciplinary research on how big data and astronomy can contribute to development of communities and society at large. Her work has earned her numerous awards\, including Inspiring Fifty South Africa (2020)\, an International Astronomical Union Special Award for Astronomy Outreach\, Development and Education (2018)\, Mail & Guardian Top 200 Young South Africans (2014)\, Bilan Magazine 300 most influential of Switzerland – category under 40s (2013)\, an American Association for the Advancement of Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (2010). \nhttps://carolune.org\nhttps://astro.uwc.ac.za\nhttps://www.idia.ac.za \nViews: 4
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/general-meeting-2021-09/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:General Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210814T220000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210814T233000
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SUMMARY:Open Spiral Bar
DESCRIPTION:This is a free online event\, to attend please register with zoom using the “View Event Website” link on the box above. \nCome and socialize with your fellow astronomy enthusiasts face-to-face virtually!\nBring your latest astrophotos\, mini-presentation\, questions or none and your own refreshments. \n \nViews: 4
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/open-spiral-bar-2021-08/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Meeting After the Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210813T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210813T213000
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SUMMARY:Online General Meeting - August 2021
DESCRIPTION:This is a free online event\, to attend please register with zoom using the “View Event Website” link on the box above. \nInto the Void: Probing the Space between\n  \nPlanets\, Stars\, and Galaxies\n  \n \nIt is hard for us to grasp how vast and how empty space is\, but it is also true that the vast majority of matter in the universe is distributed at barely-detectable densities through the voids between planets\, stars\, and galaxies. The propagation of radio pulses through the tenuous interstellar and intergalactic media offers a unique probe of this gas. Pulses from radio pulsars – rapidly spinning neutron stars – have been used to map the ionized interstellar medium of the Milky Way. \nInto the Void with Voyager\, Pulsars\, and Fast Radio Bursts\n \nThe recent discovery of fast radio bursts has allowed us to start probing the intergalactic medium even as we try to understand what powers these enigmatic radio pulses from distant galaxies. Closer to home\, data from the Voyager spacecraft has revealed a new way to monitor the boundary between the solar wind and interstellar space. We will take a quick tour of these diverse phenomena\, and what we have learned so far. \n  \n \nShami Chatterjee is a Principal Research Scientist at the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science and the Carl Sagan Institute\, which seems like coming full circle\, since he grew up watching Carl Sagan’s Cosmos and dreaming about the stars. Dr. Chatterjee studies neutron stars\, works on the forefront of efforts to use them to build a low-frequency gravitational wave detector\, and has been in hot pursuit of fast radio bursts\, mysterious flashes of radio waves that are coming from billions of light years away. \nDr. Chatterjee has a PhD in astronomy from Cornell University\, and he was a Jansky Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro\, New Mexico and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge\, Massachusetts. After a stint as a University Fellow at the University of Sydney in Australia and as an astronomer at the Australia Telescope National Facility\, he has been at Cornell University since 2009. \n \nDr. Chatterjee’s work has appeared on the cover of Nature\, in the New York Times and Washington Post\, and has even been picked up by his hometown newspaper in Kolkata\, India. He enjoys a quiet life in upstate New York with his lovely wife and wonderful children\, and laments the fact that his to-read pile grows faster than he can possibly keep up with. \n  \n  \nViews: 4
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/general-meeting-2021-08/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:General Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210710T220000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210710T233000
DTSTAMP:20260406T012515
CREATED:20210710T190859Z
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SUMMARY:Open Spiral Bar
DESCRIPTION:This is a free online event\, to attend please register with zoom using the “View Event Website” link on the box above. \nCome and socialize with your fellow astronomy enthusiasts face-to-face virtually!\nBring your latest astrophotos\, mini-presentation\, questions or none and your own refreshments. \n \nViews: 4
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/open-spiral-bar-2021-07/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Meeting After the Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210709T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210709T213000
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UID:10001119-1625859000-1625866200@www.ocastronomers.org
SUMMARY:Online General Meeting - July 2021
DESCRIPTION:This is a free online event\, to attend please register with zoom using the “View Event Website” link on the box above. \nChasing Supernovae Explosions with Kepler\n  \n \nThe Kepler Telescope discovered and revolutionized our understanding of 1000s of exoplanets. However\, it also has given us the opportunity to study supernova explosions with exquisite accuracy. Dr. Rest will talk about how we can use these Kepler light curves to learn about the progenitors of the different types of supernovae and the physics of their explosion mechanisms. \nKepler’s Supernova Experiment Captures First Moments of a Dying Star \n \nNASA Spacecraft Capture Rare\, Early Moments of Baby Supernovae \nType 1a Supernova Animation \n  \n \nDr. Armin Rest is an Associate Astronomer at STScI. Originally from Germany\, he came to the US as an exchange student\, and decided to stay to obtain his PhD at the University of Washington. \n \nAfter his PhD\, he worked as an NOAO Goldberg fellow at the CTIO observatory in Chile\, before doing another postdoc at Harvard University. He started to work at STScI in 2010\, and has been working there since as an NIRCam/JWST instrument scientist. His research interest is focused on supernovae\, exotic transients\, cosmology\, and gravitational waves. \n \nViews: 4
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/general-meeting-2021-07/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:General Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210618T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210618T220000
DTSTAMP:20260406T012515
CREATED:20210528T194616Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210603T110306Z
UID:10001118-1624048200-1624053600@www.ocastronomers.org
SUMMARY:Online Ventura County Astronomical Society's General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:This is an online event held by OCA for VCAS.\nNo prior registration is required but when entering the webinar\, zoom will ask for your name and email.\nAt the time of the meeting\, to attend via zoom app click here\, via your browser click here.\nTo install the zoom app click here.\n \nThe High Frontier: The Untold Story of Gerard K. O’Neill tells the untold story of the life and influence of the late physicist and space colony pioneer Dr. Gerard K. O’Neill. In 1977\, O’Neill wrote the book The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space\, which sparked an enormous grassroots movement to build Earth-like habitats in space in order to solve Earth’s greatest crises. The film is told through “Gerry’s Kids” as they affectionately call themselves; his peers\, family\, and the younger generation who followed that movement and are now leading the modern day space industry. Find out more at www.thehighfrontiermovie.com \nWill Henry is a Filmmaker and Writer based in Los Angeles\, CA. Born and raised in Princeton\, NJ\, Will later attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City as a Directing/Screenwriting double major where he graduated top of his class. Will began his career in development at Tribeca Film under Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro\, and later as a Creative Executive at Cindy Cowan Entertainment. Will moved into the independent film industry as a Filmmaker and Writer shortly after relocating to Los Angeles\, CA\, gaining recognition for his first feature documentary film\, The High Frontier: The Untold Story of Gerard K. O’Neill. \n \nWill Henry (Producer & Writer)\nFilmmaker & Writer\, Creative Director & Senior Producer at Multiverse Media \n \nDylan Taylor (Executive Producer & Writer)\nChairman\, Multiverse Media\, CEO Voyager Space Holdings\, Founder\, Space for Humanity. Co-Founding Patron\, Commercial Spaceflight Federation \n \nRyan Stuit (Director & Editor)\nAccomplished artist\, designer\, and composer. Creative Director and Designer at Subtractive Inc. Future directorial slate includes “Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon” based on Robert Heinlein’s 1950s Sci-Fi short story. \n \nKyle Schember (Producer)\nCo-Founder and CEO of Subtractive Inc\, specializing in scripted film\, television\, music videos\, and music. Producer and Executive Producer for “Anna” with Emma Stone and “Who Cares” with Paul McCartney & Emma Stone. Producer on Prince EA’s “One Planet” produced for the Bloomberg Global Business Forum. \nViews: 4
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/vcas-general-meeting-2021-06/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:General Meetings,Non OCA Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210612T220000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210612T233000
DTSTAMP:20260406T012515
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UID:10001098-1623535200-1623540600@www.ocastronomers.org
SUMMARY:Open Spiral Bar
DESCRIPTION:This is a free online event\, to attend please register with zoom using the “View Event Website” link on the box above. \nCome and socialize with your fellow astronomy enthusiasts face-to-face virtually!\nBring your latest astrophotos\, mini-presentation\, questions or none and your own refreshments. \n \nViews: 4
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/open-spiral-bar-2021-06/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Meeting After the Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210611T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210611T213000
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CREATED:20210524T184035Z
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UID:10001097-1623439800-1623447000@www.ocastronomers.org
SUMMARY:Online General Meeting - June 2021
DESCRIPTION:This is a free online event\, to attend please register with zoom using the “View Event Website” link on the box above. \nHearing the Stars:\n  \nNew Insights into Stellar Interiors\n  \nSpace-based observations from the Kepler satellite have provided a remarkable new tool for studying stars. Simply by measuring how bright a star is over many years\, we can now directly measure its mass\, radius\, rate of rotation\, and sometimes\, the magnetic field it possesses. This has now been done for tens of thousands of stars across the Milky Way\, also allowing us to identify those few stars that are in short-lived phases of their evolution. It’s a great story of how theory and observation\, together\, can make a remarkable impact on our understanding of the universe. \n  \nLars Bildsten is the Director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) and the Gluck Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. He received his PhD in theoretical physics from Cornell University in 1991\, where he held a Fannie and John Hertz Graduate Fellowship. Dr. Bildsten is a theoretical astrophysicist recognized for his work on the properties and behaviors of stars\, both when they are burning their thermonuclear fuel for billions of years and when they explode as supernovae or emit gravitational waves. He was at Caltech for three years as the Lee A. DuBridge Research Fellow in Theoretical Astrophysics and was an assistant and associate professor in both the Physics and Astronomy departments at University of California\, Berkeley. Moving to Santa Barbara in 1999 as a Permanent Member at the KITP\, he held the Rosing\, Raab Chair in Theoretical Astrophysics prior to becoming Director in 2012. Among his awards are the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship\, the Cottrell Scholar of the Research Corporation\, the Helen B. Warner Prize from the American Astronomical Society and the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science\, the American Physical Society\, the American Astronomical Society and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018. He is presently Chair of the Board of Directors of both the Research Corporation for Science Advancement and the Las Cumbres Observatory. \nViews: 4
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/general-meeting-2021-06/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:General Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T220000
DTSTAMP:20260406T012515
CREATED:20210416T182221Z
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UID:10001096-1621629000-1621634400@www.ocastronomers.org
SUMMARY:Online Ventura County Astronomical Society's General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:This is an online event held by OCA for VCAS.\nNo prior registration is required but when entering the webinar\, zoom will ask for your name and email.\nAt the time of the meeting\, to attend via zoom app click here\, via your browser click here.\nTo install the zoom app click here.\n \n  \nViews: 4
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/vcas-general-meeting-2021-05/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:General Meetings,Non OCA Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210515T220000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210515T233000
DTSTAMP:20260406T012515
CREATED:20210330T204426Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210402T183127Z
UID:10001093-1621116000-1621121400@www.ocastronomers.org
SUMMARY:Open Spiral Bar
DESCRIPTION:This is a free online event\, to attend please register with zoom using the “View Event Website” link on the box above. \nCome and socialize with your fellow astronomy enthusiasts face-to-face virtually!\nBring your latest astrophotos\, mini-presentation\, questions or none and your own refreshments. \n \nViews: 4
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/open-spiral-bar-2021-05/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Meeting After the Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210514T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210514T213000
DTSTAMP:20260406T012515
CREATED:20210407T181336Z
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UID:10001095-1621020600-1621027800@www.ocastronomers.org
SUMMARY:Online General Meeting - May 2021
DESCRIPTION:This is a free online event\, to attend please register with zoom using the “View Event Website” link on the box above. \nThe Last Stargazers\n  \n \nA bird that mimicked a black hole. The astronomer that discovered microwave ovens. A telescope that got shot. The science of astronomy is filled with true stories (and tall tales) of the adventures and misadventures that accompany our exploration of the universe. Join Dr. Emily Levesque\, author of the new popular science book The Last Stargazers\, to take a behind-the-scenes tour of life as a professional astronomer. We’ll learn about some of the most powerful telescopes in the world\, meet the people who run them\, and explore the crucial role of human curiosity in the past\, present\, and future of scientific discovery. \n \nEmily Levesque is an astronomy professor at the University of Washington. Her work explores how the most massive stars in the universe evolve and die. She has observed for upwards of fifty nights on many of the planet’s largest telescopes and flown over the Antarctic stratosphere in an experimental aircraft for her research. Her academic accolades include the 2014 Annie Jump Cannon Award\, a 2017 Alfred P. Sloan fellowship\, a 2019 Cottrell Scholar award\, and the 2020 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize. She earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from MIT and a PhD in astronomy from the University of Hawaii. \nWebsite \nViews: 4
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/general-meeting-2021-05/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:General Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210416T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210416T220000
DTSTAMP:20260406T012515
CREATED:20210330T204543Z
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UID:10001094-1618605000-1618610400@www.ocastronomers.org
SUMMARY:Online Ventura County Astronomical Society's General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:This is an online event held by OCA for VCAS.\nNo prior registration is required but when entering the webinar\, zoom will ask for your name and email.\nAt the time of the meeting\, to attend via zoom app click here\, via your browser click here.\nTo install the zoom app click here.\n \n  \nViews: 4
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/vcas-general-meeting-2021-04/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:General Meetings,Non OCA Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210410T220000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210410T233000
DTSTAMP:20260406T012515
CREATED:20210224T210810Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210402T183119Z
UID:10001088-1618092000-1618097400@www.ocastronomers.org
SUMMARY:Open Spiral Bar
DESCRIPTION:This is a free online event\, to attend please register with zoom using the “View Event Website” link on the box above. \nCome and socialize with your fellow astronomy enthusiasts face-to-face virtually!\nBring your latest astrophotos\, mini-presentation\, questions or none and your own refreshments. \n \nViews: 4
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/open-spiral-bar-2021-04/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Meeting After the Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210409T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210409T213000
DTSTAMP:20260406T012515
CREATED:20210224T213029Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210402T183145Z
UID:10001089-1617996600-1618003800@www.ocastronomers.org
SUMMARY:Online General Meeting - April 2021
DESCRIPTION:This is a free online event\, to attend please register with zoom using the “View Event Website” link on the box above. \nWhat will astronomy be like in 2121?\n  \n \nAstronomy texts of 2121 will be filled with answers to questions we haven’t thought to ask in 2021. I say this based on how unpredictably our cosmic view has changed in the past century. How did Canadian astronomer John Stanley Plaskett see the Universe in 1921 when his namesake telescope saw its first light? How might he have answered the question “What will astronomy be like in 2021?” In 1921\, the Milky Way was the entire Universe\, and almost all astronomers were sure we were near its centre. In 1921\, the most sensitive thing at the focus of a telescope was photographic emulsion on a piece of glass\, and the only light recorded was what we see by eye\, a sliver of the electromagnetic spectrum. The first radio telescope was more one decade away. People dreamt of space travel but no one included a telescope in those dreams. So space telescopes weren’t yet even a fantasy. In 1921 (and for the next five decades)\, the recipe of the Universe was simple. Everything was made of atoms\, made of particles of ordinary matter. There was one type of matter\, so nobody said “ordinary matter”\, just “matter”. No one in 1921 had predicted\, or even imagined\, dark matter and dark energy. No one in 1921 predicted the expansion of the Universe. Well\, Einstein did\, or his Theory of General Relativity had. But Einstein thought it was a flaw in his theory. Einstein predicted black holes in 1916 but they weren’t named that until 1967 and the first wasn’t found until 1971. He predicted gravitational waves in 1916; it was a century before that prediction was confirmed. Fast forward to 2021\, as I try to forecast the state of astronomy in 2121. Like Plaskett\, there are advances I can confidently predict. We’ll know the nature of dark matter\, maybe within a decade. Gravitational wave detectors will see things so distant we couldn’t study them in any other way. We’ll have mapped stars across our Galaxy. Our sample of planets around those stars will grow from a few thousand today to maybe a few million in 2121. And we’ll have evidence of aliens – maybe only microbes\, but alien microbes nonetheless. The biggest breakthroughs will be the ones no one sees coming. Whenever we look at the Universe with new eyes (telescopes and instruments)\, new insights (analyses powered by new computers and young minds) or new perspectives\, we are always caught off guard. I hope to catch you a bit off guard with my look back across a century of astronomical history and with my speculative look forward across the next century of discovery \n \nJaymie Matthews calls himself an astrophysical “gossip columnist” who unveils the hidden lifestyles of stars by eavesdropping on “the music of the spheres.” His version of interstellar Spotify is Canada’s first space telescope\, MOST (Microvariability & Oscillations of STars)\, which detects vibrations in the light of ringing stars too subtle to be seen by the largest telescopes on Earth. MOST also makes Professor Matthews an “astro-paparazzo” by helping him spy on planets around other stars that might be homes for alien celebrities. Celebrities? Maybe not Wookies\, but finding microbes on another world would qualify those microbes as newsmakers of the century. Matthews is a Professor of Astrophysics in University of British Columbia’s Department of Physics & Astronomy. Prof. Matthews is an expert in the fields of stellar seismology (literally using the surface vibrations of vibrating stars to probe their hidden interiors and histories) and exoplanetary science. He’s a member of the Executive Council for NASA’s Kepler satellite mission hunting for Earth-sized exoplanets in the Habitable Zones of their stars. He serves on the Science Team for BRITE Constellation (BRIght Target Explorer) – a Canadian–Austrian–Polish satellite mission monitoring the brightest stars in the night sky. He’s an Associate Editor of the astronomy journal Frontiers\, and an author on more than 200 refereed scientific papers. In 2006\, Prof. Matthews was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada\, and in 2012\, he received a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. Astronomy education and public outreach are important facets of Matthews’ life and career. He’s UBC’s astronomy undergraduate advisor. He served on the Board of Directors of Vancouver’s H.R. MacMillan Space Centre for almost 20 years\, and on the Board of Youth Science Canada. In 2015\, he received the Canada-Wide Science Fair Alumni Award. He was awarded a 1999 Killam Prize for teaching excellence in the UBC Faculty of Science\, and the 2002 Teaching Prize of the Canadian Association of Physicists. In 2016\, Dr. Matthews was awarded the Canadian Astronomy Society’s Qilak Award for his efforts in astronomy education and public outreach. Qilak is the Inuit word for the “canopy of the heavens” or the sky overhead. Matthews is a co-founder of and regular instructor in UBC’s Science 101 course for residents of Vancouver’s Downtown East Side\, and a mentor for Canada’s Loran Scholar programme. He was a storyteller at the Kootenay Storytelling Festival in Nelson\, BC in 2013. Last year\, Dr. Matthews provided astronomical context on stage for a sold-out concert by the UBC Symphony Orchestra of Holst’s The Planets. \nViews: 4
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/general-meeting-2021-04/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:General Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210319T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210319T220000
DTSTAMP:20260406T012515
CREATED:20210224T213127Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210301T205726Z
UID:10001090-1616185800-1616191200@www.ocastronomers.org
SUMMARY:Online Ventura County Astronomical Society's General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:This is an online event held by OCA for VCAS.\nNo prior registration is required but when entering the webinar\, zoom will ask for your name and email.\nAt the time of the meeting\, to attend via zoom app click here\, via your browser click here.\nTo install the zoom app click here.\n \n  \nViews: 4
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/vcas-general-meeting-2021-03/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:General Meetings,Non OCA Event
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