Past Events from 2025

For photos of all past events, see our Flickr Page. For lecture recordings, see our YouTube Page.

To learn more about each event this year (including abstracts, titles, etc.), click on the event links below.

Friday, January 24, 8-10PM

Stargazing Lecture - The Physics of the Warp Drive
Lecturer: Elias Most
Lecture Captain: Cameron Hummels
Lecture Volunteers (2+): Nicholas Rui, Sarah Habib
Telescope Captain: Sam Rose
Telescope Volunteers (3+): Harshda Saxena, Delina Levine, Hazel Yun, Tim Proudkii, Xander Hall, Maggie Li
Attendees: 250
190 in person and 60 online. Great turnout for a winter event. Elias gave a great presentation and explanation of faster-than-light travel.
Clear conditions and the "planet parade" meant good observing outside. We had 2 dobsonians and 2 electronic scopes looking at
Jupiter, Mars, M42, and M31. Great volunteers and great night overall.

Friday, January 31, 6:30-8PM

Telescope Training on Dobs and eVscope
Organizer: Cameron Hummels
Participants: Tim Proudkii, Sasha Mintz, Maria Sanchez
Good group. We got through setting up and taking down 8" dob; viewing Moon, Mars, Venus, and Jupiter.
Also setup and takedown of eVscope with a view of M42.

Monday, February 3, 7:30-9:30PM

Astronomy on Tap @ Dog Haus
MC: Cameron Hummels
Speakers (2): Stella Ocker, Matthew Stumbo
Volunteer (3+): Maggie Li, Sam Rose, Delaney White, Tim Proudkii, Sasha Mintz
Attendees: 160
Great group and excellent presentations. Clouds cleared a bit at the end, which allowed observations of M1 on the eVscope.
Jason Achilles was unable to join at the last minute. New merchandise includes tshirts, pint glasses, coffee mugs, and water bottles.

Friday, February 14, 7:30-9:30PM

Stargazing Lecture - Powerful Jets from Supermassive Black Holes
Lecturer: Martijn Oei
Lecture Captain: Cameron Hummels
Lecture Volunteers (2+): Kenny Lau, Dee Dunne
Telescope Captain: Sam Rose
Telescope Volunteers (3+): Maggie Li, Harshda Saxena, Maria Sanchez
Attendees: 150
110 in person and 40 online. Valentines Day, so wasn't sure how turnout would be. Martijn gave a great lecture, and light clouds but
still decent observing of planentary objects. Had some issues with microphone where Martijn spoke too closely to it, and it sounded
distorted online.

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