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SUMMARY:Online Beginner's Class
DESCRIPTION:This is a free and open to the public online Zoom event\, to attend please click here at or after 7:10pm \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: 155
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/online-beginners-class-13/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Beginner's Class
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SUMMARY:General Meeting – September 2023
DESCRIPTION: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.\n Join Zoom\n\nThis meeting’s speaker will present inperson on the campus of Chapman University.\n\n  \n  \n  \nTHE SHAKING COSMOS:\n  \n  \nObserving the Universe in\n  \n  \nGravitational Waves with LISA\n  \n \nVirtually everything we know about the Universe has been discovered from the study of photons — light in all its myriad forms from radio waves\, to visible light\, to x-rays and beyond.  At the dawn of the 21st century\, advanced technology is providing access to the Cosmos through detection of sub-atomic particles like cosmic rays and neutrinos\, and through detection of ripples in the fabric of spacetime itself. \nThese ripples in spacetime\, called gravitational waves\, carry information not in the form of light or particles\, but in the form of gravity itself.  Gravitational waves are messengers which carry the stories of what happens when two black holes collide at the centers of galaxies\, of how the compact stars fall into monstrous black holes\, and of how the graveyard of the galaxy is filled with the quiet whisper of binary white dwarf stars that spiral together ever so slowly as they fade into oblivion. \n \nThis talk will explore the modern description of gravity\, what gravitational waves are and how we hope to measure them\, and what we hope to learn from their detection. We’ll focus on the forthcoming space gravitational wave observatory\, LISA\, being launched in the early 2030s by ESA and NASA. Gravity has a story to tell\, and in this talk\, we’ll explore some of discoveries we hope to make by listening. \n \nShane Larson is a research professor of physics at Northwestern University\, where he is the Associate Director of CIERA (Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics). He works in the field of gravitational wave astrophysics\, specializing in studies of compact stars\, binaries\, and the galaxy.  He works in gravitational wave astronomy with both the ground-based LIGO project\, and future space-based observatory LISA. He was formerly a tenured associate professor of physics at Utah State University. He is an award winning teacher\, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He contributes regularly to a public science blog at writescience.wordpress.com\, and tweets with the handle @sciencejedi \nViews: 155
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/general-meeting-2023-09/
LOCATION:Irvine Lecture Hall of the Chapman University\, 336 N Center St\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
CATEGORIES:General Meetings
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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: 155
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/open-spiral-bar-2023-09/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Meeting After the Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230915T190000
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SUMMARY:OCA Astrophysics SIG Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The monthly meeting of the Astrophysics Special Interest Group is at 7:00 PM every third Friday of the month at the Heritage Museum of Orange County. Please contact the ASIG chair for details at mark@ocastronomers.org . \nViews: 155
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/oca-astrophysics-sig-meeting/2023-09-15/
LOCATION:Orange Coast College\, Building 40\, Astronomy House\, Merrimac Way\, Costa Mesa\, CA\, 92626\, United States
CATEGORIES:SIG Meetings
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SUMMARY:OCA Board Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The OCA board meeting will be conducted via Zoom at 11:30am on Sept 24\,2023. This meeting is open to all OCA members in good standing. Please contact Alan Smallbone for the link for the meeting. \nViews: 155
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/oca-board-meeting-20/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Board Meeting
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