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Sara Seager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

THE CLASSROOM WILL BE OPEN FOR THIS TALK. This talk will be live-streamed on YouTube and as a webinar on Zoom. Our speaker will be joining us remotely but we’d love to see you in the classroom for the talk. As always, the talk will be posted to the Westport Astronomical Society’s YouTube channel afterwards. […]

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Dr. Bob Dempsey – Director of Flight Operations / New Shepard, Blue Origin

THE CLASSROOM WILL BE OPEN FOR THIS TALK. This event WILL be live-streamed on YouTube and as a webinar on Zoom. Our speaker will be joining us remotely but we’d love to see you in the classroom for the talk. As always, the talk will be posted to the Westport Astronomical Society’s YouTube channel afterwards.

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

  THE CLASSROOM WILL BE CLOSED FOR THIS EVENT Due to some unavoidable circumstances, we will NOT be opening the classroom for this talk. This event will be live-streamed on YouTube and as a webinar on Zoom. As always, the talk will be posted to the Westport Astronomical Society’s YouTube channel afterwards. WAS Welcomes Sarah

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

Due to uncontrollable issues, THE CLASSROOM WILL BE CLOSED FOR THIS TALK. This event WILL be live-streamed on YouTube and as a webinar on Zoom. As always, the talk will be posted to the Westport Astronomical Society’s YouTube channel afterwards. Dr. Chabot first spoke with us in April 2022 and she returns to talk to

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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: Hunting for Dark Matter from an Antarctic Balloon 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 live-streamed on YouTube and

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How to analyze occultations!

We have had our first “analysis party”- and it was a blast! Analysis is the final leap towards a positive report, in which we use computer programming to find the disappearance and reappearance of the star’s light as the asteroid passes over. Here, my friends, is your go-to guide to analyzing occultations for when the

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First Blog Post!! 🔭 Welcome to Occultations @ WAS!

Hello, my name is Monica! I am going to be running this occultation blog, which centers on occultations: those at WAS, those at other related locations, and those anywhere else really. Right now, I conduct asteroid research with several other peers. Some of these peers join me at Westport, or conduct research in tandem at

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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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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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International Observe the Moon Night 2024

  EVERYONE IS INVITED! Saturday, September 14, 8:00 PM   NASA’s International Observe the Moon Night Parking may be an issue – please consider carpooling and/or parking in the lot at the bottom of the hill and walking up to the Observatory. What is InOMN? International Observe the Moon Night is a worldwide celebration of lunar

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