A meeting of the OCA Board to Trustees, the meeting is held online via zoom starting at 10:30am. The meeting is open to current members, please contact the club secretary to have a link sent to you for the meeting.
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The OCA is a California non-profit corporation, whose business affairs are managed by four Officers (President, Vice President, Treasurer, and Secretary) and seven Trustees. These people are nominated by the membership, and take office based on the results of an annual election.
To be eligible for a Trustee position, the candidate must have been a member for over one year, and be over the age of 18. In addition, candidates for President or Vice President must have served as a Trustee for one year.
Nominations are now being accepted for Trustee and Officer candidates. Self-nomination is encouraged: if you would like to contribute to the formal leadership of the club, to ensure that our activities and resources meet the expectations of the membership, please toss your hat into the ring! Nominations can be sent by e-mail to the Secretary or given to any of the current Officers or Trustees, who will pass them on to Secretary.
The slate of candidates will be finalized at the close of the November General Meeting, and ballots will be included in the December Sirius Astronomer.
Please find the contact information for our Secretary on the link below Contact Page
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A meeting of the OCA Board to Trustees, the meeting is held online via zoom starting at 11:30am. The meeting is open to current members, please contact the club secretary to have a link sent to you for the meeting.
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Meeting of the Astroimaging Special Interest Group at Orange Coast College Astronomy House. Meeting is from 7pm to 10pm. Parking fees will apply and must be purchased online.
Any questions please contact Kyle Coker
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For thousands of years, we’ve wondered if the Earth is unique, or if there are other Earths out there to find. In just the last 30 years, we’ve progressed from merely wondering if planets exist around other stars to knowing that almost every star we see has planets. Ambitious planet searches have been probing further and further, finding planetary systems of an incredible – and incredibly surprising! – variety. However, we have yet to discover another planet that might be like Earth – a rocky planet orbiting just the right distance from a Sun-like star to have liquid water on its surface. NASA has a audacious new plan for a next-generation flagship telescope that will directly image Earth-like planets around nearby stars, but it will take all of our ingenuity and technical prowess to achieve this incredible feat. Dr Christiansen will walk you through the past, present, and future of our hunt for Earth 2.0.
Dr. Jessie Christiansen is the Chief Scientist of the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute and a TED fellow. She has worked on NASA’s Kepler, K2, and TESS missions, searching the sky for exoplanets, and is helping plan for NASA’s next big flagship missions – the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, and the Habitable Worlds Observatory. Dr. Christiansen’s research is in the detection and characterization of exoplanets – planets around other stars – and studies of exoplanet populations, and she is currently the most successful woman planet hunter in the world.
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This is a free and open to the public event (In-person event only).
The 5th session of the Beginners Astronomy Class is the “How to Use Your Telescope”.
If you have a telescope and would like some help learning to set it up and use it, attend this Hands-on class.
For details, please visit here and download the sample information PDF package.
Event is held at Orange Coast College, near Planetarium.
Look for Planetarium Parking, LOT E
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This is a free and open to the public online event, to attend please register with zoom by clicking here at or after 6:40pm.
The 4th session of the Beginners Astronomy Class covers the science behind the telescope.
How do our eyes actually perceive objects we see in the telescope and what is the physics that allows that perception.
For details, please visit here and download the sample information PDF package.
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This is a free and open to the public online event, to attend please register with zoom by clicking here at or after 6:40pm.
The 3rd session of the Beginners Astronomy Class covers different methods of finding objects in the night sky. Special topic is learning the constellations.
For details, please visit here and download the sample information PDF package.
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