A pilot screening of the new documentary Luminous. Sam Smart, Award-winning filmmaker.

 

Sam Smart, Award-winning filmmaker (Wagonmasters)

Presentation: A pilot screening of the new documentary Luminous, directed by award-winning filmmaker, chronicles the journey behind Calvin University astronomy professor Larry Molnar’s 2017 prediction of a Luminous red nova in the constellation of Cygnus. Professor Larry Molnar, working with a handful of undergraduate students remotely operating a 0.5 meter telescope in the desert of New Mexico, believes he can find the unfindable–a star that is about to explode. In Luminous, Sam Smartt follows Larry and his students for five years as they make and test their unprecedented prediction.