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SUMMARY:General Meeting – August 2019
DESCRIPTION:NOTICE – NEW SUMMER LOCATION!\n6:30 pm – Introductory Presentation\nTitle:  Two Talks: Personal Observatory and CAC Update\nSpeaker 1:  David Klein\, TAAA member\, amateur astronomy and astrophotographer\, will talk about developing and running his personal observatory in Tucson. His New World Observatory has a fully-automated Exploradome. \nSpeaker 2:  Ed Foley\, current board member at large and former Treasurer of TAAA will share an update on TAAA’s Gateway to the Galaxy capital campaign and building project at our dark site Chiricahua Complex (CAC). \n7:30 pm – Main Presentation\nTitle:  From Tucson to the Moon (And Beyond)\nSpeaker:  Dr. William Hartmann is a noted planetary scientist\, artist\, and writer. He received his B.S. in physics from Pennsylvania State University and his M.S. in geology and PhD in astronomy from the University of Arizona. He is Senior Scientist Emeritus at Planetary Science Institute in Tucson; the author of several books\, including science text books\, popular science nonfiction\, and novels; and an artist with paintings displayed at the National Air & Space Museum. For this presentation\, Dr. Hartman will focus on stories from his work during the Apollo years at UA’s Lunar & Planetary Lab\, as well as his current and future projects. \nDr. Hartmann will take us on a journey of exploration\, presenting stories from his days as an amateur astronomer and later a grad student under Dr. Gerard Kuiper at UA’s Lunar & Planetary Lab\, and including his own discoveries and theories about the moon. He will also talk about his involvement in the origin of Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii in the ‘60s\, his 30 years of experience on imaging teams for Mars orbiter missions\, his development of a dating process for Solar System objects\, and much more. This is sure to be a fascinating talk.
URL:https://tucsonastronomy.org/event/general-meeting-august-2019/
LOCATION:UA Modern Languages Building\, 1423 East University Blvd\, Third Floor Auditorium (Room 350)\, Tucson\, AZ\, 85721\, United States
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