Hazards of Human Spaceflight to Mars Things You Need To Know NASA and Elon Musk’s Space X recently announced their intention to send astronauts to Mars in the 2030s. Why […]
This month we will be screening a recent Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture with Dr. Victoria Kaspi (McGill University) The Fast Radio Sky: A New Window on the Violent Universe In […]
Tonight we have an introduction to DeepSkyStacker by Eric Chiu. DeepSkyStacker is a freeware for astrophotographers that simplifies all the pre-processing steps of deep sky pictures. This will be followed […]
Variable Stars. Observation of variable stars has a long history with amateur astronomy. We will discuss the types of variable stars and how to observe them to obtain scientifically useful […]
Speaker: Professor Richard Easther Doing astronomy is as easy as stepping out and looking up. However, ever since Stonehenge astronomy has been at the forefront of what is now […]