Meeting
A STAR meeting.
Submitted by Rob Nunn on Thu, 04/25/2013 - 17:39
Monmouth Museum
Lincroft, NJ United States
Our upcoming meeting will be held on Thursday, May 2 at 8 p.m. at Monmouth Museum. Our speaker will be S*T*A*R member Dave Britz, whose talk is titled “Motion in Space and Time.” Dave observes that as a species we seem to have spent an inordinate amount of time exploring our world and the space nearby, trying to figure out where we are. As our technological eyes have improved our sight, expanded our spectrum, the universe and our sense of time, we ironically find that answering the questions where and when we are is increasingly difficult.
Submitted by Rob Nunn on Sun, 03/24/2013 - 12:35
Monmouth Museum
Lincroft, NJ United States
Our upcoming meeting will be held on Thursday, April 4 at 8 p.m.
Submitted by Rob Nunn on Sun, 03/03/2013 - 23:39
Monmouth Museum
Lincroft, NJ United States
Our upcoming meeting will be held on Thursday, March 7 at 8 p.m. at Monmouth Museum. Our speaker will be Alan Witzgall, who will present “Supernova – Interstellar Alchemy.” Alan’s presentation will address a topic that explains where all 94 naturally occurring elements came from, and eventually allowed life to arise from stardust. This promises to be a fascinating talk.
Submitted by Rob Nunn on Fri, 01/18/2013 - 22:06
Monmouth Museum
Lincroft, NJ United States
Our upcoming meeting will be held on Thursday, February 7 at 8 pm at Monmouth Museum. Our speaker will be Stephen Lieber, whose talk is titled “Digitizing 100 Years of Photographic Plates.” Stephen will tell us how the Harvard collections of astro images came to be, and describe current efforts to digitize them. Digitization will make the information available to professional and amateur astronomers. The talk is based on Stephen’s article in Sky and Telescope in March of 2010. He presented the talk at Stellafane last year. This should be
Submitted by Rob Nunn on Wed, 12/26/2012 - 16:15
Monmouth Museum
Lincroft, NJ United States
Our upcoming meeting will be held on Thursday, January 3 at 8 pm. It will be our annual winter social. Instead of having a speaker, club members bring food, and we have a chance to discuss astronomy and equipment and just have fun eating and socializing. Many club members like to prepare something from a favorite recipe, but you can also bring something you have purchased. The club web site has a post on the discussion board about food. Please reply to that post to list the item you plan to bring. From the home page (starastronomy.org) go to the tab &ldqu
Submitted by Rob Nunn on Wed, 11/07/2012 - 17:05
Monmouth Museum
LincroftUnited States
STAR's December meeting will be held Thursday, December 6 at 8 pm at Monmouth Museum. Our speaker will be Dr.
Submitted by Rob Nunn on Mon, 10/08/2012 - 19:39
Monmouth Museum
Lincroft, NJ United States
Our speaker will be Professor Andrew Baker, a member of the faculty in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers University. His talk, titled "Dense Gas in Distant, Dusty Galaxies," will address the evolution of galaxies. To understand their evolution, one must understand not only their dark matter and their stars, but also the properties of their interstellar gas, from which new stars form and into which old stars release the products o
Submitted by Rob Nunn on Sat, 09/29/2012 - 14:28
Monmouth Museum
765 Newman Springs Rd
Lincroft, NJ 07738United States
Our speaker will be DJ Byrne, an engineer at JPL who wrote the software on the landing radar that got NASA's "Curiosity" rover down to the surface of Mars on August 6, 2012 ("7 Minutes of Terror"). DJ will tell
Submitted by Rob Nunn on Wed, 08/15/2012 - 16:00
Monmouth Museum
Lincroft, NJ United States
Our first meeting of the new season will be September 6. We are very fortunate to have as our guest speaker Robert Vanderbei, who is a professor in the department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University, as well as an accomplished astro-imager. Professor Vanderbei will give a brief tour of his recent book, "Sizing Up The Universe", which was published in 2010 by National Geographic.
Submitted by Rob Nunn on Sun, 06/03/2012 - 22:10
Monmouth Museum
Lincroft, NJ United States
Thursday we will have our annual business meeting, at which we will review finances and elect officers for the next season. We will not have a speaker.
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