Meeting
A STAR meeting.
Submitted by Nancy McGuire on Fri, 06/04/2010 - 10:39
Steve Walters has been fascinated by Quasar 3C273 for over 25 years. In this talk, he will explain what a Quasar is, why they have jets, what powers the jet and other aspects of Quasars while he traces astronomical research developments through the years in understanding these strange systems. Steve will show a recent image he took of the 3C273 jet and explain how he went about capturing this rare photograph. Come and learn about these amazing objects, the most distant and powerful engines in the Cosmos.
Submitted by Nancy McGuire on Thu, 05/27/2010 - 13:16
Even though we do not have a speaker, this is an important meeting to attend. We will elect our officers and vote on topics. What happens at this meeting will define the activities and flavor of our club for next season, so please have a voice in this!
Submitted by Nancy McGuire on Mon, 04/12/2010 - 15:45
Location
Monmouth Museum at 8:00 PMUnited States
by Dr. Ken Kremer, NASA Ambassador & The Planetary Society.
Submitted by Nancy McGuire on Tue, 03/23/2010 - 17:00
Location
Monmouth Museum on the Campus of Brookdale Community CollegeUnited States
S*T*A*R's special guest speaker for our April meeting will be Al Witzgall who will give a talk on space telescopes: the how, why, when and discoveries made by our orbital observatories
Submitted by Nancy McGuire on Mon, 02/01/2010 - 18:58
Special Guest Speaker: Prof. Saurabh W. Jha, Rutgers University
Submitted by Nancy McGuire on Mon, 01/25/2010 - 12:37
Instead of our regular meeting with a speaker, for February we will have an interactive session with equipment displays, social interaction, and hors d' oeuvres. Regular members can have time to mingle, and we hope to have some newcomers join us to find out more about our club and Astronomy as a hobby. Bring any equipment you want to show off, have help with, or perhaps swap for something else! Bring any books or magazines you want to give away.
Members of the public who may have telescopes or other equipment they need help with are welcome!
Submitted by Nancy McGuire on Wed, 12/16/2009 - 15:41
Our speaker will be S*T*A*R Astronomy Club's Ken Legal who will help us renew our love of exploring the night sky with a talk that details fascinating things to view in the night sky . This talk will be of interest to club regulars as well as newcomers. Ken will give an overview on:
Submitted by Nancy McGuire on Sun, 10/18/2009 - 16:46
Derek Yoost, an avid collector of, and expert on meteorites, will talk about those little (or big!) pieces of the universe that fall to earth. Derek will also bring along specimens of meteorites (including some rare species) for us to look at.
Submitted by Nancy McGuire on Tue, 08/25/2009 - 17:13
Location
Monmouth Museum, Navesink I room in the Student Life CenterUnited States
Our special guest speaker will be Dr. Robert Wilson. Dr. Wilson won the Nobel prize as a co-discoverer of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation. He will review the development of cosmology in the first half of the 20th Century, and then the discovery at Bell Labs of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation by he and Arno Penzias, and close with an overview of the current understanding of our universe.
Submitted by admin on Sun, 08/09/2009 - 19:21
Our special guest speaker will be Dr. Chuck Keeton of Rutgers University. Dr. Keeton makes use of a sort of natural “telescope” — gravitational lensing — to study mysterious “dark matter”.
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