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SUMMARY:Online Beginner's Class
DESCRIPTION:This is a free and open to the public online event\, to attend please register with zoom by clicking here. \nThe 1st session of the Beginners Astronomy Class gives a general overview of all of the different objects you can see in the night and day time skies\, with some history and information about what they are and their significance.  An overview of the current scientific understanding of the Universe’s beginning\, present and future is also covered. \nFor details\, please visit here and download the sample information PDF package. \nViews: 165
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/online-beginners-class-6/
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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: 165
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/general-meeting-2021-09/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:General Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210911T220000
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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: 165
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/open-spiral-bar-2021-09/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Luminous Documentary Screening
DESCRIPTION:This is a free and open to the public online event\, to enjoy please follow the steps below:\n \n1) Click here to register for attending the event \n2) Click here to register for watching the movie\n \n3) Click here for access to the scientific paper \n  \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen astronomy professor Larry Molnar stumbles across a strange star\, he and his students embark on a dramatic journey of scientific discovery that brings their unlikely team into the international spotlight. \n\n\n\n\nLuminous tells the story of the first astronomer in history to publicly predict the near-future explosion of a star – if he’s right\, 2022 will see the closest thing to a supernova in the skies of earth in 400 years\, and every school kid in the northern hemisphere will know it. But the prediction is high risk. Others in the astronomical community are skeptical\, and Larry’s professional reputation hangs in the balance. Luminous\, a feature documentary by award-winning filmmaker Sam Smartt (Wagonmasters)\, follows Larry’s journey to test his unprecedented prediction\, knowing that its success or failure will unfold squarely in the international spotlight. \n\n\n\n\nHumans have long been fascinated by stellar explosions when they appear as new stars – novae – in the night sky. But predicting the event in advance and watching it occur has so far proved impossible\, both because of the sheer number of stars in our galaxy and because of the improbability of finding one that would explode within the lifetime of the observer. Indeed\, using a telescope to find a star in its last century of life is like using a satellite to find a human being taking her final breath. It’s a task most astronomers don’t think is possible. \n \n\n\n\n\nLarry Molnar is a professor of Physics and Astronomy at Calvin University in Grand Rapids\, MI. He earned his PhD from Harvard University in 1985 and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard- Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics from 1985-1988. Before coming to Calvin\, Larry taught at the University of Iowa from 1988-1998. \nIn many ways\, Larry is an unlikely protagonist for this story. Though brilliant\, he is mild-mannered\, kind\, unassuming\, and not a seeker of the limelight. He believes in intellectual curiosity for its own sake\, not in accomplishing great things in order to garner attention. \nFor the audience\, the central dramatic question of the film is clear— “Is Larry right? Will the star actually explode?” But as a scientist Larry sees it differently: “In a sense\, I don’t care whether I’m right or not. What I want to know is the truth.” \n\n\n\n\n\nSam Smartt is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and associate professor of Film & Media at Calvin University in Grand Rapids\, MI. He earned his MFA in documentary filmmaking from the Documentary Film Program at Wake Forest in 2013. \nHis short\, Wagonmasters (2013) won a College Television Award and was distributed via American Public Television\, PBS\, and Kanopy. Shipping Home (2016) was also distributed via Kanopy. He enjoys telling stories about characters who defy our categories and challenge our expectations. \n \nhttps://www.luminous-film.com/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nViews: 165
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/luminous-documentary-screening/
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