| January 6 |
GM |
A 30 minute
video titled, “Deep Universe:
Hubble’s Universe Unfiltered”. It looks at
some of the most distant galaxies seen by
Hubble and explains why they are also the
cosmos' earliest objects. |
| January
18 |
CIG |
No meeting
due to Wuhan virus. |
| January
23 |
TIG |
No meeting
due to Wuhan virus. |
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| February 3 |
GM |
Nobel-prize winner
Dr. John Mather and Senior Project
Scientist on the James Webb Space
Telescope presented “Cosmic
Instability: How a Smooth Early Universe
Grew into Everyone You Know.”
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| February 15 |
CIG |
No meeting
due to Wuhan virus. |
| February 27 |
TIG |
No meeting
due to Wuhan virus.
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March 3
|
GM |
LHAG member
Ron Yelton gave a presentation on
astrophotography and image
processing. Ron discussed the
composition of color and how we
manipulate pixels in our photographs
of the cosmos into images that you can
frame and put on the wall. He
also gave a short demonstration showing
how this technique is achieved.
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| March 15 |
CIG
|
No meeting
due to Wuhan virus. |
| March 26 |
TIG |
No meeting
due to Wuhan virus.
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| April 7
|
GM |
Dr. Charles Hunt gave
a Zoom presentation on the problems with
the Big Bang. Why do we need
inflation, dark matter, dark energy, or
a universe that is expanding at an ever
increasing rate? Wouldn't it be better
to junk the Big Bang theory and come up
with something more reasonable?
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April 19
|
CIG |
No
scheduled activity. |
April 1
|
TIG |
Trial run for
new viewing site. |
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May 5
|
GM |
Dr.
Charles Hunt was able
to get through
just
50% of the
material he prepared
for his April
presentation.
But the presentation
was so well received, we immediately
asked him to return in May
to present
the rest.
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May 17
|
CIG |
No
scheduled activity. |
May 6
|
TIG |
Star Party at
the Sports Pavilion. |
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June 2
|
GM |
Two
videos were shown. The Pillars of
Creation is of the tall
and beautiful gaseous pillar structures
that can form inside star-forming
regions. In the Crash of
the Titans: astronomers have know for
decades that our Milky Way Galaxy and
the neighboring Andromeda Galaxy are
approaching each other. Recent
Hubble measurements have been able to
pin down the trajectory with a
smashing conclusion. |
| June 3 |
TIG |
Star Party at
the Sports Pavilion. |
June 21
|
CIG |
No
scheduled activity. |
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| July |
GM |
On
vacation. |
| July |
TIG |
On
vacation. |
| July |
CIG |
On
vacation. |
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| August 4
|
GM |
No
scheduled activity.
|
| August 10
|
TIG |
Star Party at
the Sports Pavilion.
|
| August 16
|
CIG |
No
scheduled activity.
|
|
|
|
| September 1
|
GM |
No
scheduled activity.
|
| September 9
|
TIG |
Star Party at
the Sports Pavilion.
|
| September 20
|
CIG |
No
scheduled activity.
|
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| October 6
|
GM |
Following
a discussion of club business, we saw a
video, entitled "A Giant Leap Forward in Our
Quest to Understand the Universe", about
about the James Webb telescope.
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| October 7
|
TIG |
Star Party
cancelled due to weather.
|
| October 18
|
CIG |
No
scheduled activity.
|
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| November 3
|
GM |
No
scheduled activity.
|
| November 4
|
TIG |
Star Party at
the Sports Pavilion.
|
| November 15
|
CIG |
The
first two lessons of new series on
cosmology. Lesson 1: Zooming Out to
Distant Galaxies. Lesson 2: Zooming in
to Fundamental Particles.
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| December 5
|
GM |
Holiday
party cancelled.
|
| December
|
TIG |
No
scheduled activity.
|
| December
|
CIG |
No
scheduled activity.
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