Private Star Party – Orange County

Monthly Star Party in the OC Parks Open space (Location may vary), open to OCA Members and their guests only. NOTE: The actual time the gate opens may be different from what is shown above. The Orange County star parties generally begin with the opening of the gate about 30 minutes before sundown and close […]

Beginner’s Class

7:30:00 PM - 9:30:00 PM The 4th session of the Beginners Astronomy Class provides a more indepth explanation of telescopes and how they operate. This is a technical discussion covering the physics behind the telescope. The Beginners Astronomy Class is held at the Heritage Museum of Orange County in Santa Ana. For details, please see […]

General Meeting – June 2019

Irvine Lecture Hall of the Chapman University 336 N Center St, Orange, CA, United States

Exoplanets: Finding Life in the Galaxy Join Dr. Zellem, a planetary astronomer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as he discusses how scientists find and characterize exoplanets, planets outside of our Solar System, with the ultimate goal of finding extraterrestrial life. Robert Zellem

Event Series Astrophysics SIG Meeting

Astrophysics SIG Meeting

Heritage Museum of Orange County 3101 W Harvard St, Santa Ana, CA, United States

    Our Astrophysics group meets to discuss and learn about how the universe works as a seminar group that bases its discussions on topics of interest introduced by the participants and the videos that are shown during the meetings on different aspects of astrophysics. The meetings are held in the classroom at the Heritage […]