The January meeting of the Huachuca Astronomy Club will be held on January 18 at 7 pm in the Student Union building at Cochise College. Our speaker is Dr. Everett Schlawin a Post Doc researcher at the University of Arizona. Everett is interested in what planets and their atmospheres are made of. He studies planet composition by observing transiting planets – planets that cross in front and behind their host stars. Everett is a member of the James Webb Space Telescope NIRCam team, led by Marcia Rieke. The unprecedented Webb telescope will enable giant leaps in our understanding of planet composition.
We will take Everett to diner at outback before the meeting. RSVP to Bill Howard (howardwj51 at gmail.com) if you would like to join us for dinner.
A talk by Dr. Seth Shostak on Monday November 5, at 7 PM in the Student Union at Cochise College 901 N. Colombo Avenue, Sierra Vista.
Our next meeting is October 12th at 7PM in the Student Union building on the Cochise College campus. At this meeting, Dr. Eric Pearce will give his presentation on “Space Situational Awareness.” He will discuss how the network of telescopes and radar systems to keep track of the satellites and other manmade objects currently in orbit around the Earth was developed and what purpose it serves.
Dr. Danielle Adams, a recent graduate from the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Arizona and NASA Space Grant fellow, will speak about the rich star lore of Arabia as it was more than a thousand years ago. Camels, vultures, goats, wild cows and many other kinds of animals graced the skies of the Arabian desert, and some of these survive in the star names used by astronomers today. Danielle will especially focus on the stars that are visible in the fall so that visitors can find them after the talk in the park’s famously dark sky. Some of these stories can be found on her website, 