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Thanks to all of those who came out to learn about stars at last night's UMBC Observatory Open House. In total, we had about 50 attendees! We started the evening with Astronomy Club President,...
posted 18 days ago
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All: Meeting at UMBC Observatory at 2100 to attempt observation of various deep sky objects and working to identify a good cepheid variable for continued observation. Feel free to join. Must be...
posted about 1 month ago
Preparing for next OH and Cepheid Project
This meeting is to (1) prepare for next week's Open House on Eclipses and (2) roll-out cepheid variable project. If it's clear, we'll attempt some observations before astronomy club....
posted about 1 month ago
For the past few years, the UMBC Observatory was happy to host mentees and mentors from the UMBC REACH Initiative. REACH is a mentorship program at UMBC for women who are interested in pursuing...
posted 2 months ago
No recap meeting for the 11/14/2019 Open House. We will try to accomplish any discussion or to-dos via GroupMe/email.
posted 3 months ago
Yesterday (11/13/2019) the group met to outline how best to deliver topics relating to cosmic distances and the development of our cepheid project.
posted 3 months ago
As discussed, this meeting is to prepare for the 11/14 Open House: Planets and Moons. If time permits, let's look over the following recent paper:...
posted 3 months ago
Tonight we discussed Fermi's Paradox, the question asked by Enrico Fermi of why, if there is life out there and it is easy to make, have we not yet learned of this life or have interacted with it?...
posted 9 months ago
The space agency of Japan has successfully used an explosive to create a crater on an asteroid to collect samples. NASA has also dropped an explosive on an asteroid before, but was unable to...
posted 10 months ago
Thanks to everyone who attended our open house tonight! Tonight we had a discussion on black holes where we first looked at how physicists began to approach gravity, invisible objects, and black...
posted 10 months ago