Let’s go star gazing for Halloween! Halloween needs more Galileos, Keplers and Sir Isaac Newtons knocking on doors and asking for sweets to remind us of the scientific discoveries that made our current understanding of the universe possible. Without scientific breakthroughs, we would still be wondering why magnets work, puzzling [Read More…]
Our 2025 star party dates are: January 4 February 1 March 1 March 29 April 26 May 24 June 28 July 26 August 23 September 20 October 18 November 15 December: none Location: Our stargazing site is located in the parking lot of the marina and boat launch at Santa [Read More…]
Time: 7PM Location: United Methodist Church Wesley Room 1515 Fredricks Street San Luis Obsipo, CA 93405 Main Topic: Blazars, the Most Energetic Particle Accelerators in the Universe, by Jodi Christiansen Description: Most galaxies harbor a supermassive black hole (SMBH) at their core. Although black holes by themselves do not radiate light, [Read More…]
Time: 7PM Location: United Methodist Church Wesley Room 1515 Fredricks Street San Luis Obsipo, CA 93405 Main Topic: Astrophotography Lee Coombs has assembled a group of CCAS astrophotographers who will provide presentations for our July meeting. They will each briefly describe their equipment and then show some of their favorite [Read More…]
Time: 7PM Location: United Methodist Church Wesley Room 1515 Fredricks Street San Luis Obsipo, CA 93405 Guest Speaker: Bruce Jurcevich, a retired Lockheed Martin engineer Bruce and his colleagues were part of the team that had a large role in the JWST NirCam instrument, and will be sharing a presentation [Read More…]
Join us at United Methodist Church on January 18th, 2024 for our first in-person meeting since 2020. Time: 7PM Location: United Methodist Church 1515 Fredricks Street San Luis Obsipo, CA 93405 Guest Speaker: Dr. Anna Ciurlo from UCLA Galactic Center on the Milky way structure and the environment of the [Read More…]
In March of 2021, board member Tom Frey recorded a video of his binocular chair, also called a “Couch Potato Telescope”. Since then, that video has been viewed over 1,000 times and people have been asking for the plans to build one of their own. The original design for this [Read More…]
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