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JANUARY 25, 2019 - General Membership Meeting at
8:00 PM
will be at this location:
New Franklin City Hall
5611 Manchester Road
Akron, OH 44319
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!
8:00 PM
- 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. of Physics &
Astronomy; Baldwin Wallace University |
Presentation: |
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"A Look at the Jovian
Satellites: Worlds of Fire and Ice"
The satellites of Jupiter and Saturn are, in many ways, more intriguing
than their host planets. Among them is the most volcanically active body
in the solar system, a subsurface ocean with the potential for life,
lakes and rivers of ethane, and salt water geysers.
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About our speaker: |
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Mr. Kader last spoke to our membership at the New
Franklin City Hall on Friday October 27, 2017 when his topic was "Seeing
Double: Double Stars for Fun & Science”
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 |
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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 will include the following: |
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