Lecture

Sarah Elizabeth McCandless, Navigation Engineer at JPL, Exploring an Icy World with Europa Clipper

  THE CLASSROOM WILL BE OPEN FOR THIS EVENT Join us LIVE in the WAS Classroom for this lecture, featuring our speaker joining us remotely. This event WILL be live-streamed on YouTube and as a webinar on Zoom, but we’d love to see you in person in the classroom at the Westport Observatory. As always, […]

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Nancy Chabot, Planetary Chief Scientist at JPL – Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART): The First Mission to Move an Asteroid

  THE CLASSROOM WILL BE OPEN FOR THIS EVENT Join us LIVE in the WAS Classroom for this lecture, featuring our speaker joining us remotely. This event WILL be live-streamed on YouTube and as a webinar on Zoom, but we’d love to see you in person in the classroom at the Westport Observatory. As always,

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Gabriel Lewis Bridges, Columbia – (GAPS) an Antarctic balloon mission searching for dark matter

Gabriel Lewis Bridges, PhD candidate, Department of Physics, Columbia University The General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS) an Antarctic balloon mission searching for dark matter with cosmic-ray antimatter THE CLASSROOM WILL BE OPEN FOR THIS EVENT Join us LIVE in the WAS Classroom for this lecture, featuring our speaker joining us IN PERSON. This event WILL be

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Dr. Kevin Green – Asteroid Occultations at WAS: An Update

THE CLASSROOM WILL BE OPEN FOR THIS EVENT Join us LIVE in the WAS Classroom for this talk from our own WAS Board Member, Dr. Kevin Green. This talk WILL be live-streamed on YouTube and as a webinar on Zoom, but we hope you’ll join us in the classroom at the Westport Observatory. As always,

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David Weintraub – How Old Is the Universe?

David Weintraub Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Communication of Science Program, Emeritus, Vanderbilt University How Old Is the Universe? THE CLASSROOM WILL BE CLOSED FOR THIS EVENT This lecture will be hosted as a Webinar on Zoom as well as a live stream on our YouTube channel. We encourage you to participate, ask questions, and be a part of

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Dr. Debra Wallace – Exploring the Vast Cosmic Structures of the Universe

Dr. Debra Wallace, Deputy Branch Chief for Astrophysics at the NASA MSFC Exploring the Vast Cosmic Structures of the Universe THE CLASSROOM WILL BE OPEN FOR THIS EVENT Join us LIVE in the WAS Classroom for this special lecture, featuring our speaker joining us remotely. Plus, it’s our Pre-Winter Solstice Holiday Party! This event WILL

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CSP 34

The Connecticut Star Party Connecticut’s Premier Star Party September 6-8th, 2024 RAIN OR SHINE Edmund D. Strang Scout Reservation Goshen, CT Join WAS with our friends from the Astronomical Society of New Haven as they host a weekend gathering of amateur astronomers with the purpose of observing the sky   Online Registration will end on

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Erin Kara – Black Hole Echoes: How We “See” Curved Spacetime 

Erin Kara MIT assistant professor, Department of Physics, member of the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research Black Hole Echoes: How We “See” Curved Spacetime THE CLASSROOM WILL BE CLOSED FOR THIS EVENT   This lecture will be hosted as a Webinar on Zoom as well as a live stream on our YouTube channel. We encourage you to

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BOB MEADOWS ANNUAL STELLAFANE REPORT!

  THE CLASSROOM WILL BE OPEN FOR THIS EVENT PLEASE COME AND SUPPORT LIVE TALKS! This lecture is an IN PERSON meeting and will eventually be posted on our YouTube channel. We encourage you to participate, ask questions and be a part of the live meeting.   WAS Observatory Director BOB MEADOWS returns with his

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Ofer Cohen – How Space Environments Threaten Exoplanet Habitability

Ofer Cohen – Associate Professor UMass – Lowell Center for Space Science & Technology How Space Environments Threaten Exoplanet Habitability THE CLASSROOM WILL BE CLOSED FOR THIS EVENT   This lecture will be hosted as a Webinar on Zoom as well as a live stream on our YouTube channel. We encourage you to participate, ask questions, and be a part

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