Educational Events

Our November meeting will be held on Thursday, November 17. Dr. Caitlin Ahrens will be presenting a talk entitled "Pop, Fizz, Bang: Cryovolcanism of Our Solar System." This event is free and open to the public. We will gather at 7:00 pm for informal conversation, and the lecture will begin at 7:30 pm. Dr. Ahrens's… Read More »November Meeting: Cryovolcanism of Our Solar System

Our January meeting will be held on Thursday, January 26. Mark "Indy" Kochte will be presenting a talk on what the New Horizons mission has been doing since it left Pluto. This event is free and open to the public. We will gather at 7:00 pm for informal conversation, and the lecture will begin at… Read More »January Meeting: The New Horizons Mission After Pluto

The ASG Near-Earth Object Observation Program is partnering with the International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC) for a special asteroid search campaign during February and March 2023. Our team was selected from the hundreds of teams worldwide that apply annually to participate in the Find an Asteroid search campaign. Read more about the program and how to… Read More »NEO Observation Campaign

Our February meeting will be held on Thursday, February 23. Dr. Kirby Runyon will be presenting a talk on the study of Venus enabled by human proximity This event is free and open to the public. We will gather at 7:00 pm for informal conversation, and the lecture will begin at 7:30 pm. Dr. Runyon… Read More »February Meeting: Human-Proximity Exploration of Venus

On March 30, Corrine Carter and Sue Bassett will talk about the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope that is planned for launch in 2027. We will gather at 7:00 for informal discussion, and the lecture will begin at 7:30. Both Corrine and Sue are officers of the Astronomical Society of Greenbelt. Our monthly meetings are… Read More »Monthly Meeting: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

The Astronomical Society of Greenbelt will meet on Thursday, April 27, in Room 114 of the Greenbelt Community Center. We will gather at 7:00 pm for informal discussion, and the lecture will begin at 7:30 pm. Drs. Joan and David Dunham will give a presentation on observing occultations. The lecture will be followed by an… Read More »Monthly Meeting

Our monthly meetings are generally held on the last Thursday of the month, 7:00–9:00 pm, at the Greenbelt Community Center. They are also streamed via Zoom for those who cannot meet in person. We gather at 7:00 for informal discussion, and the lecture begins at 7:30. This month's meeting with feature Dr. Louth "Lu" Chou,… Read More »Monthly Meeting

At our monthly meeting on June 22 at 7:00 pm, Dr. Kevin P. Hand will deliver a lecture entitled "Alien Oceans on Earth and Beyond." Due to a conflict, this meeting will be held a week earlier than our usual last-Thursday-of-the-month slot. This meeting will also be virtual only, with no in-person meeting at the… Read More »Monthly Meeting

The Astronomical Society of Greenbelt will meet on Thursday, July 27, at 7:15 pm (note the earlier start time) in Room 114 of the Greenbelt Community Center.  We will be showing the documentary Good Night, Oppy, the story of NASA's Mars rovers "Spirit" and "Opportunity". Originally planned for 6-month missions,  "Spirit" functioned for over 6… Read More »Monthly Meeting

Kevin A. Wilson, PhD, will give a presentation on astronomical spectroscopy for amateur astronomers. Spectroscopy is the analysis of the light emitted by astronomical objects. He will discuss the concept of spectroscopy, what we can learn from it, and how amateurs can do spectroscopy. Kevin is the vice president of the ASG and a life-long… Read More »Monthly Meeting

The Astronomical Society of Greenbelt will meet at 7:30 pm on Thursday, September 28, in Room 114 of the Greenbelt Community Center. Tim Hamilton, Professor of Physics at Shawnee State University will give a presentation entitled "One Year of Astronomy with the James Webb Space Telescope." Dr. Hamilton is the discoverer of "Hamilton's Object," a… Read More »Monthly Meeting

Our October meeting will be held on Thursday, October 26, 7:00–9:00 pm, at the Greenbelt Community Center. ASG member Sue Bassett will give a presentation entitled "The Fermi Paradox, the Drake Equation, and Life on Earth." We gather at 7:00 for informal discussion, and the lecture begins at 7:30. The meeting will also be streamed… Read More »Monthly Meeting