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10/3 Presentation: Growing Up With The Astronauts

Join us October 3rd as James Loftus presents:
Growing Up With The Astronauts

Speaker: James Loftus, director of the JPLMuseum* in Stayton, OR

James  will bring a few NASA artifacts from his father’s collection: a plug extracted from the Apollo 11 command module heat shield and a hyper-velocity impact demonstration piece. He will discuss our museum’s mission and share stories of the people who made manned missions to the moon successful.

* JPLMuseum.org is located in the Historic Gardner House Cafe’ at 633 North Third Ave. Stayton, Oregon.

Hours of operation are Tuesday thru Saturday from 8:00 AM to 3:00PM. Phone 503 602 9128.

For more information, seehttps://www.jplmuseum.org/

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June 6th Presentation: Astronomical Sketching

Astronomical Sketching
Our Speaker: Howard Banich

“Sketching at the eyepiece is a time-honored means of disciplining the observer’s vision to see all that’s detecatable on a given night”

Howard Banich made his first astronomical sketch in 1973. He will describe his process from the first rough sketches to the smoothly finished drawings published in Sky & Telescope.

Night Sky 45 Astronomy Club 6/6/2018 Meeting Poster: Astronomical Sketching
Night Sky 45 Astronomy Club 6/6/2018 Meeting Poster: Astronomical Sketching
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Our Own Richard Berry Presents: Broken Starlight

Join us 5/2/2018 as our own Richard Berry presents:

Broken Starlight – Adventures With A Spectroscope
Our Speaker: Richard Berry

Spectroscopy has told humanity more about the true nature of stars and planets than all other tools of the astronomer combined. Our speaker this month, Richard Berry, tells a few tales about Astro–Spectroscopy what we learn by “breaking” starlight into a spectrum.

Night Sky 45 Astronomy Club 5/2/2018 Meeting Poster: Broken Starlight