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SUMMARY:General Meeting – January 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\n\n  \n  \n  \nCOSMIC ARTIST:\n\n\n  \n  \nTHE WORK OF JON LOMBERG\n  \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n\nArtist Jon Lomberg will talk about his long career working with Carl Sagan on projects like the Voyager Golden Record\, the TV series COSMOS\, and the movie CONTACT. He will also discuss work with Mauna Kea observatories and his creation of the Galaxy Garden\, the worlds first scale model\, walk through galaxy.\n\n  \n \n  \n\nJo Lomberg is one of the world’s most distinguished space artists. He was Designer of the Voyager Golden Record and Emmy-Award winning Chief Artist of Carl Sagan’s COSMOS series. He is a winner of the ASP’s Klumpke Roberts Award for astronomy popularization and has an asteroid named after him. He lives in Kona\, Hawaii.\n\n\n\n\nwww.jonlomberg.com\nwww.galaxygarden.net\n\n\n\nSpecial Offer\nJon is offering two of his best-known pieces with Carl Sagan\, one from COSMOS and one from CONTACT at a special price of $60 (+$15 shipping) each. You can see the details of each by clicking on the respective words. These prints can be ordered directly from Jon at this special members price. Do not order through the website but send payment via PayPal to lomberg@aloha.net\n\nViews: 96
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/general-meeting-2023-01/
LOCATION:Irvine Lecture Hall of the Chapman University\, 336 N Center St\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
CATEGORIES:General Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221209T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221209T210000
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SUMMARY:General Meeting – December 2022
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.\nJoin Zoom\nThe meeting is held at the Irvine Lecture Hall of the Chapman University\, the exact street address can be found on the section above under “VENUE”. \n  \n  \nThe Voyager Spacecraft\n  \n  \nWhere they are\, how they got there\,\n\n  \nand where they are going\n  \n \nTwin Voyager spacecraft were launched in the summer of 1977 on a four-year mission to study Jupiter\, Saturn and their natural satellites. A fortuitous option existed for one of them to continue on to Uranus five years later and Neptune after another three years. Space missions at the time were typically of days to months duration\, and technology for even a four-year mission was considered pushing the limits of technology. A 12-year mission was seen as a pipe dream. But the Voyagers were outfitted with some new innovations\, and techniques were developed in flight to make enhanced science possible at Uranus and Neptune if they should survive that long. The only thought given to a purpose beyond Neptune was in the form of a video record of sounds\, music and greetings from the people of Earth to any intelligent beings that might happen upon the derelict remains of either craft somewhere in the cosmos. As the world has seen\, expectations were exceeded beyond anyone’s imagination. The spacecraft are still operating well\, with data being transmitted continuously and received daily. \nThis talk is intended to focus on the spacecraft technologies and highly creative techniques developed in flight\, in the hands of a dedicated flight team\, that allowed these intrepid explorers to extend their four-year prime mission to 45 years now\, with the expectation of another possible five to ten years before they finally succumb to the inevitable loss of enough electrical power to keep them running. \n \nTim Hogle became hooked on astronomy at age 12 after building a 3″ Newtonian telescope and seeing Saturn with it in the dark skies of his front yard. These interests\, astronomy and telescope making\, have stayed with him ever since. After graduating in electrical engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 1971\, he joined the Navy Air Corps as a Naval Flight Officer for a few years\, then left the Navy and serendipitously joined JPL and the Voyager flight team shortly after their launches; a dream opportunity to explore the solar system in a detail he never could through a telescope. This was so much fun that he accepted an offer to continue with the team to explore Uranus and Neptune.\nStarting as a real time analyst\, seeing the data coming in before anyone else saw it\, he soon became the senior spacecraft systems engineer\, responsible for a wide variety of duties including data and anomaly analysis\, sequence\, test\, and contingency planning\, and being involved in nearly all aspects of the mission. By the Neptune encounter\, the Voyagers were as close as family members to him\, and Tim wanted to continue using his years of experience to extend the mission as long as possible. His total time with Voyager was 27½ years. He has been retired since 2006\, but kept in touch with former colleagues on the flight team to keep abreast of the progress of the Voyagers in his absence. In retirement\, his astronomical interest has continued with visual observing at every opportunity\, especially of faint galaxies through an 18″ telescope. \nViews: 96
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/general-meeting-2022-12/
LOCATION:Irvine Lecture Hall of the Chapman University\, 336 N Center St\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
CATEGORIES:General Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200214T193000
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SUMMARY:General Meeting - February 2020
DESCRIPTION:From Apples to Orange Juice: Can We Infer a Galaxy’s Biography from Just One Photograph? \n \nDespite having data stretching back over 10 billion years and computer simulations that make realistic-looking galaxies starting from just gas and dark matter\, humans do not have a theory that predicts why a galaxy looks the way it does based on what it used to look like. We ask this from the biological theory of evolution\, but\, because astronomers cannot experiment on our subjects\, we face challenges biologists (and sociologists) do not. I will talk about the two main routes we are taking to overcome this handicap: (1) assuming our data nevertheless do look like that of biology or sociology and proceeding accordingly; (2) attempting to infer the past histories of individual objects through the single snapshots we actually have of them. The latter is the correct thing to do\, but it is unclear if it is possible\, which would leave astronomers in the unique position of having data…but nothing to do with it! This epistemological situation\, and the opportunity to explore questions like “Is galaxy evolution knowable?” is fascinating to me\, and I think it cannot but lead to important new insights about our place in the universe. \nLouis Abramson \n \nLouis Abramson is a Carnegie-Princeton Fellow at the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena. He works to tease-out the growth histories of individual galaxies from information encoded in their colors. He hopes that such galaxy biographies will yield insights into what causes some galaxies to look like the Milky way while others do not. Outside of academia\, Louis is an elected official in the City of Los Angeles and chairs the Homelessness and Outreach Committees of the Central Hollywood Neighborhood Council. \nViews: 96
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/general-meeting-february-2020/
LOCATION:Irvine Lecture Hall of the Chapman University\, 336 N Center St\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
CATEGORIES:General Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200110T193000
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SUMMARY:General Meeting - January 2020
DESCRIPTION:Music of the Spheres: Gravitational Waves from Black Holes\n \nThe Nobel prize in 2016 was awarded for the detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO interferometer. So faint are these ripples that the only events powerful enough to produce detectable signals are the collisions of black holes and neutron stars\, some forty times the mass of the sun. I’ll explain how gravitational waves work\, how they are detected and explain some of the weird and interesting properties of black holes. \n \nSimeon Bird\, professor at UCR’s Department of Physics and Astronomy\, earned his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and did postdocs at the IAS in Princeton\, Carnegie Mellon and Johns Hopkins. His research interests are in cosmology and galaxy formation. His tool of choice is numerical simulations\, so he is interested in high performance computing\, as well as machine learning. His most notorious work connected the gravitational wave sources of LIGO with the very early universe. \nViews: 96
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/general-meeting-january-2020/
LOCATION:Irvine Lecture Hall of the Chapman University\, 336 N Center St\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
CATEGORIES:General Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191213T193000
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SUMMARY:General Meeting - December 2019
DESCRIPTION:Astro-cinematography from the Mount Laguna Observatory\n \nThe stars and galaxies that fill the night sky appear roughly today as they have throughout human history. However\, close inspection shows that these objects change\, sometimes dramatically\, over decades or months\, or occasionally over just minutes. The field of time-domain astronomy has arisen in recent years thanks to technological advances\, and we can now record these changes and reveal celestial mergers\, catastrophic explosions\, and the shadows of distant worlds. In this talk I will discuss our study of the time-variable universe from San Diego State University’s Mount Laguna Observatory including a new\, ultra-wide field imaging system that is beginning to survey the skies. \nRobert Quimby\n \nRobert Quimby is the Director of the Mount Laguna Observatory and an Associate Professor of Astronomy at San Diego State University. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Astrophysics from the University of California\, Berkeley in 1998 and then worked as a research assistant for the Supernova Cosmology Project before entering graduate school. Robert earned his masters and PhD in Astronomy from the University of Texas\, Austin in 2004 and 2006\, respectively. He went on to work as a postdoctoral scholar at Caltech and then at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe in Japan before joining the faculty at San Diego State University. Robert’s research interests include thermonuclear supernovae\, core-collapse supernovae\, the use of supernovae as cosmological probes\, detection of supernovae in the early universe\, gamma-ray bursts\, and other rare transient phenomena. For his research contributions\, Robert has received the Trumpler Award (Astronomical Society of the Pacific)\, the Hyer Award (American Physical Society)\, and\, a share of the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. \nViews: 96
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/general-meeting-december-2019/
LOCATION:Irvine Lecture Hall of the Chapman University\, 336 N Center St\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
CATEGORIES:General Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191108T073000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191108T213000
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SUMMARY:General Meeting - November 2019
DESCRIPTION:OUR LITTLE CORNER OF THE GALAXY – THE EARTHLIGHT EXPRESS\n  \nIn The Earthlight Express\, internationally published science artist Chris Butler brings his popular Our Little Corner of the Galaxy tours of the universe close to home – with an excursion across the wild and majestic wastelands of Earth’s moon.  Join Chris for a unique blend of science and imagination that will transform the distant moon you see in Earth’s sky into what it truly is: a world of its own. \n \nIn The Earthlight Express\, internationally published science artist Chris Butler brings his popular Our Little Corner of the Galaxy tours of the universe close to home – with an excursion across the wild and majestic wastelands of Earth’s moon at some time several centuries hence when such travel may be commonplace.  While earlier episodes of these tours required interstellar probes and spacecraft to visit far-flung destinations in the universe\, The Earthlight Express takes place close to home – which allows us to relax in comfort riding a lunar rail train of the future. \nWhile our method of travel is imaginary\, the places we will be visiting are all quite real.  Indeed\, we will pass through landscapes walked by three of the Apollo moon crews.  Placing ourselves into the scene permits us to appreciate the scope and scale of the places.  We will also be visiting parts of the moon Apollo never reached\, and seeing sights those astronauts never glimpsed\, such as the eerie majesty of the frigid lunar night.  In all\, our path will carry us across more than 2700 miles\, passing through wide valleys\, alongside towering mountains\, across deep crevasses\, and to the sheer lip of a gigantic crater that would hold a dozen large cities. \nChris conceived\, researched\, scripted\, designed\, modeled and edited all elements of the production over a course of four years\, making this the most ambition presentation he has undertaken yet in his 25 years of creating public science education shows. \n \nChris Butler is an internationally renowned artist\, public speaker\, and educational program producer whose work focuses on science\, nature\, and maritime subjects. His illustrations have appeared in thousands of publications worldwide\, from the Times of London to Scientific American. A graduate of California State University Fullerton’s school of Television and Film Production\, Chris has served as an art director and animator on both educational and entertainment programs. \nChris has served as an artist and animator for planetarium and exhibit programs for the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles for 22 years\, and is a regular lecturer at education venues across the country. Chris’s unique art and presentation style reflects his diverse experience; he has been the director of a children’s science museum\, a tour guide on the original Queen Mary\, a technical illustrator\, a representative for a telescope manufacturer\, an amateur astronomer\, and a financial analyst on the space shuttle program for Rockwell International. \nChris was the 2006 recipient of the Western Astronomical Association’s G. Bruce Blair Medal for service to astronomy. Chris was also recognized in 2002 by having an asteroid named in his honor by the International Astronomical Union (minor planet 13543 Butler). In 2008\, Chris was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (F.R.A.S.) in recognition of his service to international science education. \nAn avid amateur astronomer\, Chris brings direct experience with astronomy to his work. He has served as a vice-president and board member of the Orange County Astronomers (the largest organization of its kind in the world)\, and is a life member of the Los Angeles Astronomical Society. \nViews: 96
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/general-meeting-november-2019/
LOCATION:Irvine Lecture Hall of the Chapman University\, 336 N Center St\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
CATEGORIES:General Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191011T193000
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SUMMARY:General Meeting - October 2019
DESCRIPTION:The Universe in Infrared Light (There is no Red in Infrared) \nThe infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum plays an indispensable role in both terrestrial and astronomical applications. On Earth\, IR light runs our remote controls\, provides security and surveillance\, and identifies disease. In space\, infrared light allows us to explore planet surface features\, quantify an atmosphere\, and probe through a galactic dust cloud. As advanced technology expands both the size and sensitivity of the IR sensor array\, missions like New Horizons and spacecraft like the James Webb Space Telescope become practical. \n \nToday’s infrared devices make discoveries of thousands of asteroids by the likes of NeoWise to Big Bang protogalaxies imaged by Hubble-like space telescopes something no longer beyond human accomplishment.. This talk will make a somewhat abbreviated overview of the role infrared light and the IR sensor have played in modern astronomy. \n \nGary Bostrup \nGary is a retired Rockwell International Science Center semiconductor materials engineer working in the infrared (IR) sensor field. Over his career\, he helped design and build IR detectors for everything from the Hubble Space Telescope\, to the Deep Impact Probe\, to the New Horizons spacecraft\, to the James Web Space Telescope. Devices Gary help create are active to this day in astronomical observatories around the world from Mauna Kea in Hawaii to South Wales\, Australia. Among the many discoveries\, sensors built by his team helped establish the current limit of the Big Bang at 13.8 billion light years. recorded the first impacts on Jupiter of the comet Shoemaker-Levy\, and finally charted the surface of Pluto. Gary was honored to work with fellow engineers across several disciplines that designed and built the infrared sensors to be launched on the James Web Space Telescope in 2020.\nGary also trained to be an astronaut payload specialist\, intended to fly abroad the Space Shuttle Discovery. In the process\, he logged over 10\,800 seconds in near-zero gravity aboard NASA’s Vomit Comet Boeing 707 low gravity airplane platform. He also served on the NASA material design committee tasked to help build the International Space Station. Gary followed this with space research done at Edward’s Air Force Base\, Marshall Space Flight Center and NASA Washington. These days he enjoys collecting space memorabilia\, doing web design/coding\, and contacting the ISS space station as a ham radio operator. \nViews: 96
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/general-meeting-october-2019/
LOCATION:Irvine Lecture Hall of the Chapman University\, 336 N Center St\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
CATEGORIES:General Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190913T073000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190913T213000
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SUMMARY:General Meeting - September 2019
DESCRIPTION:News from the Universe\n \nThe Virgo and two LIGO Gravitational Wave observatories are in observation mode. They detect more than one inspiral event per week\, of Black Holes and Neutron Stars\, and started making a strange picture of the collapsed-matter Universe. \nWhy are there so many heavy Black Holes out there? How did they form in the early Universe? Why so many inspirals? And also why BH pairs appear to come from random pairing and not from binary star systems? And on another front\, how can pulsar neutron stars be spheres smoother than 20 µm over 12 km radius and still be rigid enough to generate the starquakes believed to cause the pulsar frequency glitches? These are some of the new questions we have to answer. We also learned about the source of at least one class of Gamma Ray Bursts\, the galactic gold factories\, and more. \nRiccardo DeSalvo\n \nA lifetime instrument maker\, starting from the laser of his thesis in Pisa\, then for 15 years in High Energy Physics (CERN and Cornell Lab for Nuclear Studies)\, finally 25 years on Gravitational Waves\, on mechanical design of GW detectors (Virgo\, TAMA\, KAGRA and parts of LIGO)\, initially on seismic isolation\, then on dissipation mechanisms and thermal noise in dielectric coating mirrors\, the limiting factor of GW detection. Presently make a living developing sensors for FB\, and work on coatings and GW developments as a personal hobby\, with 3-4 students. \nViews: 96
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/general-meeting-september-2019/
LOCATION:Irvine Lecture Hall of the Chapman University\, 336 N Center St\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
CATEGORIES:General Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190712T073000
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SUMMARY:General Meeting - July 2019
DESCRIPTION:From the big bang to the empty end – the universe from the point of view of modern cosmology \n \nThe scientific view point on our Universe has gone through a major transformation in the last decades. In my talk\, I will talk about the knows but also the major unknowns we have. My main focus will be on the observations that lead to our current understanding. \nSimon Birrer \n \nSimon Birrer is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of California\, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the department of Physics and Astronomy. Before joining UCLA\, he received his PhD from ETH Zurich in the cosmology research group. Birrer’s research focus on the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy. He is an expert in using strong gravitational lensing\, the bending in space-time that lead to strong distortions and multiple appearance of the same source\, to probe fundamental physics questions on cosmological scales. Birrer works in the interface between the exquisite data sets available on one side and the fundamental theory predictions on the other side. \nhttp://www.astro.ucla.edu/~sibirrer/ \n“What’s Up?” in this month will be presented by Chris Butler from OCA. \nViews: 96
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/general-meeting-july-2019/
LOCATION:Irvine Lecture Hall of the Chapman University\, 336 N Center St\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
CATEGORIES:General Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190614T193000
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SUMMARY:General Meeting - June 2019
DESCRIPTION:Exoplanets: Finding Life in the Galaxy \nJoin Dr. Zellem\, a planetary astronomer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory\, as he discusses how scientists find and characterize exoplanets\, planets outside of our Solar System\, with the ultimate goal of finding extraterrestrial life. \n \nRobert Zellem \n \nViews: 96
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/general-meeting-june-2019/
LOCATION:Irvine Lecture Hall of the Chapman University\, 336 N Center St\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
CATEGORIES:General Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181214T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181214T143000
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SUMMARY:OCA General Meeting - DEC 2018
DESCRIPTION:Astrophysics learning from the detection of Gravitational Waves\n\nWe often said that the detection of gravitational waves would open a new window on the Universe.\nWell\, it was more surprising than expected.\nI will illustrate the latest events found in the data\, give you a glimpse of the strange things that we see through that window\, and attempt an early summary of some astrophysical implications.\n\nDocuments with in-depth information about the topic from the Erice School Of Nuclear Physics can be downloaded below. \n\nDocument 1\nDocument 2\nDocument 3\n\nAbout OCA General Meetings\nThe OCA has a general meeting held on the second Friday of every month* at Chapman University.\nThese meetings are free and open to the general public.\nThe meetings take place in The Irvine Lecture Hall with seating for approximately 250 people.\nThe Irvine Lecture Hall (located adjacent to the Hashinger Science Center) is near the south east corner of the campus and the nearest cross street is East Palm Ave and North Center Street.\nAfter the slideshow\, the meeting officially starts at 7:30 PM.\nThe basic agenda\, with approximate times\, is as shown below. \n* Please check here for any changes to the date of the meeting (rarely we get a scheduling conflict which results in the meeting being pushed back a week). \nAgenda\n\n\n\n7:00 PM – 7:30 PM\nPre-meeting Slide Show\nArrival of audience. This presentation includes recent astronomical photographs taken by OCA members.\n\n\n7:30 PM – 7:45 PM\nClub Announcements\nUsually presented by the OCA Secretary.\n\n\n7:45 PM – 8:15 PM\n“What’s Up?”\nPresented by various OCA Members and guests from other clubs.\n\n\n8:15 PM – 9:15 PM\nMain Talk\nSpeakers are often from JPL/Caltech and other major educational and astronomical institutions.\nThe level of the talks are usually appropriate for anyone who has an interest in this hobby.\n\n\n9:15 PM – 9:30 PM\nRefreshments Break\nDonuts\, coffee and soda are available for a small donation.\n\n\n9:30 PM – 10:00 PM\n“Ask an Astronomer”\nAnyone can stay behind and ask a panel of experts any burning question related to this hobby.\n\n\n\nFirst Time Attending\nPlan to be there anytime between 7:00 and 7:30. During which a slideshow runs. The formal part of the meeting starts at 7:30 after which it gets crowded and if you come late you may have to stand in the back.\nWe recommend the paid parking lot which is an underground facility about a hundred feet east of Glassel. (see below)\nEnter the parking lot from Walnut. Walnut is north of the main part of the campus.\nAfter parking toward the south end\, walk to the main stairs where you will find a ticketing machine that takes cash or credit card.\nBuy 3 hours. The machine might take some time to finish the transaction.\nPlace the ticket on your dash board and then go up those stairs and continuing walking south to Hashinger Hall. \nLibrary\nDuring the meeting our extensive club library is open to allow members to browse the books\, videos and DVD’s that are available for their use. \nMembership\nThe club’s Treasurer is available to accept new applications and renewals. More…\nAlso a range of interesting astronomical items (calendars\, decals\, etc.) are available for sale at his table\, of which\, all proceeds go to the club. \nViews: 96
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/oca-general-meeting-dec-18/
LOCATION:Irvine Lecture Hall of the Chapman University\, 336 N Center St\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
CATEGORIES:General Meetings
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UID:10000793-1523043000-1523053800@www.ocastronomers.org
SUMMARY:OCA General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Meetings are FREE and open to the public\, and are held at Chapman University \nAgenda:\nClub Announcements\nWhats Up: See Announcement on Home Page.\nMain speaker: See announcement on Home Page\nbreak\nLibrary: Members can check out books from our extensive collection. \nRefreshments: will be available (coffee\, donuts\, soft drinks\, etc.). \nViews: 96
URL:https://www.ocastronomers.org/calendar/oca-general-meeting-13/
LOCATION:Irvine Lecture Hall of the Chapman University\, 336 N Center St\, Orange\, CA\, 92866\, United States
CATEGORIES:General Meetings
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