This is a fun opportunity for CCAS members to connect and discuss all things astronomy during these stay-at-home times. We’re going to start just after sunset at 8 PM and be on for as long as people are interested probably about 2 hours. You’re welcome to jump on anytime during [Read More…]
Our speaker for July is Russ Glenn, the Director of Education for Slooh. Designed to inspire, Slooh’s education curriculum is the fruition of Slooh’s National Science Foundation grant, ‘Curriculum Driven Gamification of Space Exploration’. Slooh offers: Robotic Telescopes: Slooh provides real-time viewing and control of robotic telescopes, including seven telescopes [Read More…]
We’ve been having so much fun with our members-only monthly, so we are planning to continue these throughout the summer. This is a fun opportunity for CCAS members to connect and discuss all things astronomy during these stay-at-home times. We’re going to start just after sunset at 8 PM and [Read More…]
Our speaker for June is with a group of PhD students that transformed the Jefferson Rotunda into Planetarium for the public! Madeline Zehnder is a co-director of Rotunda Planetarium (http://www.rotundaplanetarium.org/) and a PhD candidate in the University of Virginia’s Department of English, where she studies 18th- and 19th-century American literature. Speaker [Read More…]
On the Road to a Billion Planets Dr Jessie Christiansen is an astrophysicist with the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at Caltech, where she searches for, characterises and catalogues planets orbiting other stars. In 2018 she was awarded the NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal for her role with the successful NASA [Read More…]
LightSail is a citizen-funded project from The Planetary Society to send a small spacecraft, propelled solely by sunlight, to Earth orbit. We are going to be streaming the regular CCAS meeting straight from us to you, so you can participate online from home. View original YouTube live stream (with comments) [Read More…]
Dr. Pamela Gay is our speaker for February on the future of ground-based astronomy! If you haven’t met her yet, be sure to access her podcast (there are over 500 episodes) here at AstronomyCast. Don’t miss this one! Join us at our general meeting! Click here for directions. Month by [Read More…]
