Past Speakers
We have had many illustrious, and not-so-well-known Astronomers and Astronomy related individuals come to our General Meetings and talk to us about their current and past projects. Here is a partial list of those speakers...
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| Date | Speaker / Topic |
| April 24, 2007 |
What’s up: Nick Tsakoyias - The Great Greek Astronomers Guest speaker: Dr. Charles H. Townes. Nobel Prize in Physics: On the convergence of Science and Religion |
| May 22 |
What’s up: Jim Head - Outreach Program Guest speaker: Bruce Margon, UC Santa Cruz: Space Science Projects at NASA: Tall, Grande, or Vente? |
| June 26 |
What’s up: Lance Schlecter - What goes on at the Missile site of Vandenberg AFB. Guest speakers: Jeff Adkins & his Deer Valley High School Students: "Student Astronomers Share Award-Winning Projects” |
| July 24 |
What’s up: John Westfall - The Lunar eclipse of August Guest speaker: Dr. Jeffrey Moore, NASA Ames: New Horizons Mission to Pluto and Beyond |
| August 28 |
What’s up: Richard Ozer Guest speaker: R. Jay GaBany: “Remotely Possible” Adventures with Remote Telescopes |
| September 25 |
What’s up: Tom Harris - Adventures with his binoculars Guest speaker: Vic Marris, owner of Stellarvue Telescopes: World Class Refractors. |
| October 23 |
MDAS 50th Anniversary Celebration: * Mike Harms - “Then and now” |
| November 20 |
MDAS Swap Meet |
| December 18 |
Members meeting: - Board Elections, etc. Imaging group will do a “Show and Tell” |
| January 22, 2008 |
What's up: Ken Coates - What's new in solar
system exploaration Guest Speaker: Richard Crisp: Polarization Imaging |
| February 26 |
What's up: Michael Kran - Remote Telescopes
up close and personal Guest Speaker: John Dillon, Randall Museum: "When Astronomy became a Science" (at he Museum of Alexandria) |