The 2021 Astronomical League Convention will be held virtually this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This year's speakers include: Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, astrophysicist who discovered pulsars Dr. Caitlin Ahrens, Postdoctoral Fellow at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Dr. David Levy, science writer and amateur astronomer, who has discovered multiple comets and minor planets Conal Richards, founder… Read More »Astronomical League 2021 Convention
The 2023 SARA Eastern Conference will be held at the Green Bank Observatory, West Virginia, Sunday through Tuesday, August 20–22. 2023. Visit the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomer's website for more details. Please note that this event is not hosted by the Astronomical Society of Greenbelt. It is listed here as a courtesy to another… Read More »Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers 2023 Eastern Conference
The Astronomical Society of Greenbelt will present material and lead a discussion on the topic of dark matter and related matters, including dark energy, cosmological structure, relativistic and quantum mechanical considerations, and the present state of physics regarding all this. Dark matter has been hypothesized by astrophysicists to account for galactic motions which cannot be… Read More »August Meeting: Dark Matters