“Edited Netflix video clip (Edge of the Universe)”

Scientist now see back to just 1/2 million years after the Big Bang. We now have amazing updated concepts about it’s size , shape and ultimate fate.

 “Asteroids, Ion Propulsion, NASA’s Dawn Mission to Vesta & Ceres”

Speaker: Dr. David Williams – ASU

“The Splendors of the Universe with Visual Astronomy” – Speaker: Dr. Paul Knauth

The talk surveys astronomical marvels that can actually be seen with the human eye and discuss how today’s colorful digital images inadvertently distort our human understanding and appreciation of the cosmos.

“My work with the Rovers on Mars” Speaker: Dr. Tanya Harrison

Dr. Harrison works on commercial-academic space partnerships and Martian geomorphology research at Arizona State University. She has been deeply involved with all of the Rovers that we have on Mars. Dr. Harrison wrote an article in the July 2017 Astronomy magazine about water on Mars. Her talk is primarily about water – past and present – on Mars.

“CCD Photometry from Inside the Light Dome” Speaker – Retired engineer Tom Polakis

Tom is a Contributing Editor for Astronomy Magazine. He has written many stories about the hobby and the profession. Tom has actively pursued photometry with his CCD imaging Equipment in Tempe. During that time, he has determined rotation periods of asteroids, measured brightness and colors of eclipsing binary and pulsating variable stars and created light curves of exoplanets.