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TVS Lectures 2012 |
| January |
20 |
Bruce Macintosh; "Images of extrasolar planets" |
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TVS Lectures 2011 |
| January |
21 |
Informal talks by Hilary Jones and Gert Gottschalk |
| February |
18 |
Marilyn Vogel; "Salt Deposits on Earth and Mars: A Case Study on Habitability" |
| March |
18 |
Ron Bissinger; "How to Upgrade Your Astronomy Camera: A Somewhat Different Approach" |
| April |
15 |
Phil Scherrer; "An Update on the SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory) Mission" |
| May |
20 |
No speaker |
| June |
17 |
Dr. Steve Bryson; "Kepler’s Vision: Exoplanets and Songs of the Stars" |
| July |
15 |
Summer Potluck BBQ |
| August |
19 |
Dr. Bryan Day, "The New Moon" |
| September |
16 |
Dr. Margaret Race, "Avoiding Conflicts on the Moon" |
| October |
21 |
Dr. Justin Vandenbroucke, "Astronomy with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope" |
| November |
18 |
Hugh Bartlett, "Asterisms and Other Binocular Showpieces" |
| December |
16 |
Holiday Potluck |
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TVS Lectures 2010 |
| January |
15 |
Robert Bauer |
| February |
19 |
Mike Rushford |
| March |
19 |
No Speaker |
| April |
16 |
Imke de Pater; "Fascinating Objects in Our Solar System" |
| May |
21 |
Phil Scherrer; "New Views of the Sun" |
| June |
18 |
Dr. Adrian Brown; "Mars Science Laboratory Mission and the Search for Carbonates and Methane on Mars" |
| July |
16 |
Summer Potluck BBQ |
| August |
20 |
Dr. Lance Simms; "SiPIN Hybrid CMOS Arrays in Astronomy" |
| September |
17 |
Bryan Mendez |
| October |
15 |
Dr. Lisa A. Poyneer |
| November |
19 |
Ken Crowell |
| December |
17 |
Holiday Potluck |
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TVS Lectures 2009 |
| January |
16 |
Justin Vandenbroucke; "IceCube: A Billion-ton Telescope at the South Pole" |
| February |
20 |
Philip Kahn; "Black Holes" |
| March |
20 |
Adrianne Cool; "Spying on Star Clusters with Space Observatories" |
| April |
17 |
Norm Sperling; "Irreproducible Results from the Journal" |
| May |
15 |
Jeffrey M Silverman; "Supernovae: You Wouldn't Be Here Without Them" |
| June |
19 |
Summer Solstice BBQ Potluck |
| July |
17 |
Brian Day; "The LCROSS Mission" |
| August |
21 |
Garrett Keating; "Allen Telescope Array" |
| September |
18 |
Dr. Steve Croft; "Radio Ears and X-Ray Eyes: Astronomical Superheroes" |
| October |
16 |
Dr. Jason Harris; "Stellar Archaeology in the Magellanic Clouds" |
| November |
20 |
Rich Combs; "Back to the Future: Modern Astronomy 1909, 2009, 2109" |
| December |
18 |
Holiday Potluck |
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TVS Lectures 2008 |
| January |
18 |
TVS Members; "Member's Night" |
| February |
15 |
TVS Members; "Total Lunar Eclipse Tips" |
| March |
21 |
Dr. Steve Croft; "Big Black Holes and the Evolving Universe" |
| April |
18 |
Hope Ishii; "The Stardust Mission" |
| May |
16 |
Richard Crisp: "Emission Line Imaging" |
| June |
20 |
Dr. Adrian Brown; "Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter" |
| July |
18 |
Summer BBQ |
| August |
15 |
Joshua Peek & Karin Sandstrom; "This Galactic Life: Neighborhood Watch" |
| September |
19 |
Phil Scherrer; "Helioseismology" |
| October |
17 |
Jeff Oishi; "From Stardust to Planets via Silicon: Computer Experiments and Planet Formation" |
| November |
21 |
Dr. Steven Stahler; "The Birth of Star Clusters" |
| December> |
19 |
Holiday Potluck |
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TVS Lectures 2007 |
| January |
19 |
TVS Members; "Astronomy Software |
| February |
16 |
Dr. Imke de Pater; "Dusty Rings in Our Solar System" |
| March |
16 |
Friedemann Freund; "The Nature of Organics in Interstellar Space" |
| April |
20 |
Brian Day; "NASA's Spaceward Bound" |
| May |
18 |
Margaret Race; "Detecting Extra-Terrestrial Life" |
| June |
15 |
Summer BBQ |
| July |
20 |
Peter Beyersdorf; "LIGO and the Search for Gravitational Waves" |
| August |
17 |
David Williams; "The VERITAS Project (Gamma-Ray astronomy)" |
| September |
21 |
Marina Shmakova; "Gravitational Lensing" |
| October |
19 |
Dr. Graeme Smith; "Globular Clusters" |
| November |
16 |
Ken Sperber; "I've Discovered Three Asteroids-Not! But They're Still Cool. . . |
| December |
21 |
Holiday Potluck |
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TVS Lectures 2006 |
| January |
20 |
TVS Members; "Show and Tell" |
| February |
17 |
Tom Estill; "Chabot Space & Science Center" |
| March |
17 |
Dave Dearborn; "Danger: Asteroid Crossing" |
| April |
21 |
Virtual Ed Krupp; "Under Nile Skies" |
| May |
19 |
Eclipse Night! |
| June |
16 |
Summer BBQ |
| July |
21 |
Rich Combs; "Anecdotes on the History of Amateur Telescope Making" |
| August |
18 |
Naishi Min; "Vemarsjusa" |
| September |
15 |
TVS Members; "Scope Maintenance Night" |
| October |
20 |
Andrew West; "Why Do Galaxies Look the Way They Do? A Multiwavelength Approach to Galaxy Evolution" |
| November |
17 |
TVS Members; "Mercury" |
| December |
15 |
Holiday Potluck |
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TVS Lectures 2005 |
| January |
21 |
Ron Bissinger; "A Distributed Global Observing Network and the Mystery of Extrasolar Planet TrES-1b" |
| February |
18 |
Dr. Sergei Nikolaev; "3D Geometry of the Large Magellanic Cloud" |
| March |
18 |
TVS Members; "How to Put on an Astronomy Program" |
| April |
15 |
Naishi Min; "Chinese Astronomy" |
| May |
23 |
Dave Dearborn; "Flash-Bang: How stars behave when we do not stereotype them as spheres" |
| June |
17 |
Jurgen Wolf; "The Sofia Project" |
| July |
15 |
TVS Members; Summer BBQ Potluck |
| August |
19 |
Norm Sperling; "Astronomy's 'Little Unification'" |
| September |
16 |
TVS Members; Auction, A Little Night Sky, and Scope Mainentance |
| October |
21 |
Ron Bissinger; "Astronomy in the National Parks" |
| November |
18 |
TVS Officers, Board, Members; "TVS Town Hall Meeting" |
| December |
16 |
Holiday Potluck |
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