Apollo 10 special event Wednesday May 22 at Cal Poly

May 12, 2019 admin 0

Prof. Bob Field has a cosmic evolution project that is sponsoring this event as a 50th anniversary celebration of the Apollo 10 mission, which was the dress rehearsal for the first lunar landing by Apollo 11. On this date 50 years ago, two astronauts in the lunar module descended from [Read More…]

Celebrating 20 years of the Chandra X-ray telescope

May 10, 2019 admin 0

Next week Cal Poly will be hosting Dr. Rodolfo Montez from CfA to give a talk celebrating 20 years of the Chandra X-ray telescope.  It’s a free public talk Tuesday night and you’re invited! It will be a broad talk on X-ray astronomy accessible to the general public.   More information [Read More…]

100th Anniversary of the Hooker Telescope

April 16, 2019 admin 0

You are cordially invited to attend a gala event celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Hooker Telescope on May 4th from 1 PM – 11:30 PM at Mt. Wilson Observatory. The 100-Inch Hooker Telescope The 100-inch (2.5 m) Hooker telescope located at Mount Wilson Observatory, California, was completed in 1917, [Read More…]

Fly Me To The Moon: from JS Bach to Mr. Spock

February 26, 2019 admin 0

Take flight throughout time and space with this musical delight of sight and sound. Don’t miss this multimedia, interactive family affair. Join Michael Nowak, Orchestra Novo, Inga Swearingen, Ken Hustad, and breathtaking images from our solar system and beyond. Travel through time and see the birth of the flight of [Read More…]

Oct 10th Exo Planet Lecture

October 8, 2018 admin 0

On October 10th (Wed), you are invited to the exoplanet lecture in the Spanos Theatre that is open to the public! Amherst College astronomy professor Kate Follette is talking about her work as a planet hunter. She is also giving the physics colloquium the next day and spending two days [Read More…]

JPL guest talk about the Mars InSight Mission

April 17, 2018 admin 0

I wanted to alert you and the CCAS to an upcoming event at Cal Poly.  On April 28, we will have a speaker from JPL to talk about the Mars InSight mission that (hopefully) launches in early May.  Since Cal Poly built some of the hardware that is flying to [Read More…]