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Our guest speaker will be Dr. Tad Pryor, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers University.  His talk is titled “Measuring the Motions of Satellite Galaxies with the Hubble Space Telescope.”

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 This month is our winter social meeting.  This will be your opportunity to meet new club members and chat with friends about astronomy or any other topic.   President Nancy McGuire began the winter social tradition two years ago, and it proved to be a big hit; the meetings were among the best attended of the two seasons.  I credit Nancy

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Our speaker will be Dale Gary, a professor at NJIT, whose topic will be "Solar Radio Research and the ESOVA project: Your stimulus tax dollars at work."  Professor Gary was awarded a $5.1 M grant through the National Science Foundation for an expansion of NJIT's solar radio observatory in Owens Valley in California.  The ESOVA project is to be completed by the time of the current solar cycle maximum in 2013.  The talk will describe some of today's most compelling solar research problems, the kind of instrument needed to address them, and how ESOVA is

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Dr William Gutsch will be our guest speaker.  He will address the topic "Astro-archaeology":
 

 The speaker for the October S*T*A*R meeting will be Ken Garrison, Associate Professor of Physics at Ocean County College and Assistant Director of the Novins Planetarium.  Ken's topic will be "Star Formation: What's New?".  Star formation is a continuous process within our galaxy, and most others.  This presentation will review some of the basic knowledge about how stars form from clouds of interstellar gas and dust and describe some of the recent results and continuing questions in this area.

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Our new season begins Thursday, September 1.  The speaker for our meeting will be club member Dennis O'Leary.  His talk is titled "Highlights of NASA’s Summer and JUNO a Journey to Jupiter."
 

This is an important meeting for members to attend. Elections will be held for Board positions, voting will be done on agenda items, and club business will be discussed.

Dr. Robert Lupton from Princeton will talk about astronomical surveys from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to the Large Synoptic Survey Telescops (LSST) via the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) survey.

Dr. William Gutsch has written and produced numerous programs for large format theaters and written for and directed many film legends in New York, Hollywood and at Lucasfilms.

Professor of Astronomy Marcos Puga from Brookdale College will present a description of our solar planets . Kepler’s laws are introduced and used to explain properties, characteristics and even names of the planets around the sun. Their number is definitely settled. It is not eight, not nine (Pluto?), not even eleven (Eris? Ceres?) Come to find out!