General Meeting – June 2023

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

This is a free and open to the public hybrid event, held both inperson and online. Due to the newly effective insurance requirements, we regret that we can not allow people under 18 on the Chapman Campus, they are welcome to attend online.  Join Zoom       Throwing DART(s) at Asteroids     NASA's […]

General Meeting – May 2023

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

This is a free and open to the public hybrid event, held both inperson and online. Due to the newly effective insurance requirements, we regret that we can not allow people under 18 on the Chapman Campus, they are welcome to attend online.  Join Zoom       The Mystery Behind the Origin of   […]

General Meeting – April 2023

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

This is a free and open to the public hybrid event, held both inperson and online. Due to the newly effective insurance requirements, we regret that we can not allow people under 18 on the Chapman Campus, they are welcome to attend online.  Join Zoom       Observing the universe in the Ultraviolet   […]

General Meeting – March 2023

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

This is a free and open to the public hybrid event, held both inperson and online. Due to the newly effective insurance requirements, we regret that we can not allow people under 18 on the Chapman Campus, they are welcome to attend online.  Join Zoom       Hunting Isolated Black Holes       […]

General Meeting – February 2023

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

This is a free and open to the public hybrid event, held both inperson and online. Due to the newly effective insurance requirements, we regret that we can not allow people under 18 on the Chapman Campus, they are welcome to attend online.  Join Zoom       Puzzles in Galaxy Evolution       […]

General Meeting – January 2023

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

This is a free and open to the public hybrid event, held both inperson and online. Due to the newly effective insurance requirements, we regret that we can not allow people under 18 on the Chapman Campus, they are welcome to attend online.  Join Zoom       COSMIC ARTIST:     THE WORK OF […]

General Meeting – December 2022

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

This is a free and open to the public hybrid event, held both inperson and online. Due to the newly effective insurance requirements, we regret that we can not allow people under 18 on the Chapman Campus, they are welcome to attend online. Join Zoom The meeting is held at the Irvine Lecture Hall of […]

General Meeting – February 2020

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

From Apples to Orange Juice: Can We Infer a Galaxy's Biography from Just One Photograph? Despite having data stretching back over 10 billion years and computer simulations that make realistic-looking galaxies starting from just gas and dark matter, humans do not have a theory that predicts why a galaxy looks the way it does based […]

General Meeting – January 2020

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

Music of the Spheres: Gravitational Waves from Black Holes The Nobel prize in 2016 was awarded for the detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO interferometer. So faint are these ripples that the only events powerful enough to produce detectable signals are the collisions of black holes and neutron stars, some forty times the mass […]

General Meeting – December 2019

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

Astro-cinematography from the Mount Laguna Observatory The stars and galaxies that fill the night sky appear roughly today as they have throughout human history. However, close inspection shows that these objects change, sometimes dramatically, over decades or months, or occasionally over just minutes. The field of time-domain astronomy has arisen in recent years thanks to […]