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OCTOBER 23, 2015 - General Membership Meeting
Please note that we
ALWAYS encourage the public to attend ANY of our events, including
meetings.
Come and enjoy the lecture and talk to us about astronomy!
For this month's
meeting, we return to our normal location:
Portage Lakes Kiwanis Civic Center
725 Portage
Lakes Dr
Akron, Ohio 44319
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- Call to order and introduction of tonight's program: |
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Speaker: |
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Gary Kader; Director - Burrell Memorial Observatory; Dept. Physics &
Astronomy; Baldwin Wallace University |
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Presentation: |
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"The Harvard Computers"
The Women Who Launched 20th Century Astronomy |
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With the advent of dry plate photography in
the late 1800's astronomy moved from the telescope to the lab. Edward
Pickering at the Harvard Observatory hired women to analyze images from
the telescopes. Their work led directly to the understanding of
stellar evolution and the discovery of the expansion of the universe. |
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About our speaker: |
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Mr. Kader last spoke to our membership at The Tudor
House on Friday September 27, 2013 when his topic was "The
Big Bang Theory." An article appeared in the Nov 1, 2010 Plain
Dealer about the Baldwin Wallace observatory, the Warner & Swasey
refracting telescope with a 13 3/8 inch objective, and Gary Kader: "Baldwin-Wallace
College houses a little-known gem: a refracting telescope"
For more details about the observatory,
email Gary Kader at
gkader@bw.edu or call the physics department at 440-826-2312 |
Click either of the above images to view the "computers" at Harvard
examining glass photographic plates |
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9:00 PM - Brief coffee-break
/ discussion time |
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9:15 PM - Business meeting
to be called to order and included the following: |
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● Treasurer's Report |
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● Observatory Director's Report |
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● Calls for observations |
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● New Business |
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