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October Skywatchers Meeting

Southern Oregon Skywatchers October Club Meeting and Presentations

With James Web space telescope going up soon, Colin White will walk us through the development of Space telescope through the ages. “The History and Science of Space Telescopes”

Following Colin’s presentation Robert will talk shortly on a few different senior projects going on at North Medford high school.

Repainting the sidewalk sundial

  1. Producing 7 posters for ScienceWorks JWST Event Nov. 13th

  2. Sponsoring a Team of six students in the "StellarXplorers" Aerospace Engineering Contest https://stellarxplorers.org/ . Colin White is our Team Mentor ( Thanks Colin)

  3. Spectroscopy Project where two students have worked with Sean Curry to collect and analyze data on Nova RS Ophiuchi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS_Ophiuchi and the broad range of stars on the Main Sequence ( OBAFGKM). This is a fantastic ongoing project ( Thanks Sean)


Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83967051790?pwd=SE96NTRVYklZcndCN3JBT3RybXdMUT09

Time 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Earlier Event: October 16
International Observe the Moon Night
Later Event: November 17
James Web Space Telescope Launch Meeting