Sam Miller The SaddleBrooke Skygazers Astronomy Club is pleased to host Father Christopher Corbally, an astronomer with the Vatican Observatory Research Group on Sunday, Dec. 7. The Program presentation will be at the DesertView Theater, 39900 S. Clubhouse Dr. at 7 p.m. Father Corbally will describe how binary star systems obviously display different behavior across…
Sam Miller Oct. 12 is the beginning of the SaddleBrooke Skygazers Astronomy Club calendar year, and we are in for a different perspective of astronomy this month. Our speaker will be Dr. Irina Panyushkina, a Research Associate Professor of Dendrochronology and member of the Graduate Faculty, Tree Ring Laboratory at the University of Arizona. Dr.…
Sam Miller On Sunday, Feb. 16, the SaddleBrooke Skygazers Astronomy Club will present Dr. Manisha Shrestha, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Arizona. The program presentation will be at the DesertView Theater, 39900 S Clubhouse Dr., at 7 p.m. Dr. Shrestha’s research focuses on the dramatic final stages of massive stars, exploring how they…
Astronomical Calendar of Events Rita Fletcher October 25, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Star Party at the softball field parking lot near the back gate. See: the planet Saturn, the asterism the Great Square of Pegasus, an open cluster, the Double Cluster in Perseus and the Andromeda Galaxy. November 10, 7:00 p.m., Dr. Lockwood Carlson at the MountainView…
Rita Fletcher October 8, 7:00-8:30 p.m., Dr. Tom Fleming, U of A, will present Making Relativity Simple in HOA One activity center. Dr. Fleming received his A.B. in Physics from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in Astronomy from the U of A. He has worked with NASA in the field of x-ray astronomy. He serves…