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Lecture & Star Party & Meteor Viewing on 10 August: The Lives of Stars 6 Aug 2013 | 10:36 pm
Join the SFAA and Friends of Mt. Tam for a lecture and star party and Perseid Meteor Shower viewing high “above the fog” on Mt. Tamalpais in Marin County. The speaker this month is Ken Croswell. His l...
Lecture 28 August 2013 – The Secret Life of a Meteorite – Dr. Derek Sears 23 Jul 2013 | 06:01 pm
It is clear that the chondritic meteorites – those having essentially solar composition – carry unique information about the origin and early history of the solar system and the materials from which t...
Lecture 17 July 2013 – The Development of the CheMin Mineralogy Instrument and It’s Deployment on Mars 22 Jun 2013 | 01:26 am
Abstract: The CheMin instrument (short for “Chemistry and Mineralogy”) on the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity is one of two “laboratory quality” instruments on board the Curiosity rover that i...
Lecture 17 July 2013 – The Development of the CheMin Mineralogy Instrument and It’s Deployment on Mars 22 Jun 2013 | 01:26 am
Abstract: The CheMin instrument (short for “Chemistry and Mineralogy”) on the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity is one of two “laboratory quality” instruments on board the Curiosity rover that i...
Lecture & Star Party on 15 June: Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe 9 Jun 2013 | 11:16 pm
Join the SFAA and Friends of Mt. Tam for a lecture and star party high “above the fog” on Mt. Tamalpais in Marin County. The speaker this month is Dr. Alex Filippenko from UC Berkeley. “The expansion ...
Lecture on 19 June 2013: Building the World’s Largest Telescopes 22 May 2013 | 06:45 pm
Tom Zobrist will recap his experience working at the Stewart Observatory Mirror Laboratory (SOML) helping to build the world’s largest astronomical telescopes, including LBT, GMT, and LSST. He will pr...
Lecture 15 May 2013: Multiple Universes and Cosmic Inflation 26 Apr 2013 | 09:38 pm
Join Anthony Aguirre, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, for an intriguing talk on Multiple Universes & Cosmic Inflation – The Quest to Understand Our Univers...
Lecture: 17 April 2013 – Planet Formation and Stellar Multiplicity 25 Mar 2013 | 06:54 pm
Join Gaspard Duchene, Assistant Researcher at UC Berkeley, for an intriguing talk on Planet Formation and Stellar Multiplicity. Gaspard Duchene has been studying stellar multiplicity and planet-formin...
City Star Party — March 16th 15 Mar 2013 | 02:09 am
Weather for the City Star Party this Saturday, March 16th is looking good. Pt. Lobos should give us a great horizon for viewing Comet Pan-STARRS. Note that the location for the CSP is in the norther...
March 2013 Newsletter — Messier Marathon and Comet 9 Mar 2013 | 01:55 am
This Saturday is our Messier Marathon Night at the Members Only Mt. Tam Star Party. See details inside this month’s Above the Fog newsletter. Comet Pan-STARRS is shaping up to be a good binocular o...
