This is a fun opportunity for CCAS members to connect and discuss all things astronomy . Our start time is 8:00 PM and the meeting lasts up to two hours. Youâre welcome to jump on anytime during this time. If your scope is outfitted with astrophotography equipment, youâre welcome to [Read More…]
This is a fun opportunity for CCAS members to connect and discuss all things astronomy during these stay-at-home times. Weâre going to start just after sunset at 8 PM and be on for as long as people are interested probably about 2 hours. Youâre welcome to jump on anytime during [Read More…]
This is a fun opportunity for CCAS members to connect and discuss all things astronomy during these stay-at-home times. Weâre going to start just after sunset at 8 PM and be on for as long as people are interested probably about 2 hours. Youâre 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 Sloohâs National Science Foundation grant, âCurriculum Driven Gamification of Space Explorationâ. 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. Weâre 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 Virginiaâs 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…]
