Past Meeting: October 17th, 2024 – Space Shuttle Stories
Presenter: Astronaut Thomas Jones Artifacts: Meeting PDF | Video Recording on YouTube | Chat Log Presented by Howard County Library System in partnership with The Maryland STEM Festival and HAL. Note: This special meeting will not be at RNC. It wil be at: Howard County Library System Elkridge Branch, Belmont / Hockley Room, 6540 Washington Blvd, Elkridge, MD 21075. To […]
Space Shuttle Stories – October 17th, 2024
Presenter: Astronaut Thomas Jones Artifacts: Meeting PDF | Video Recording on YouTube | Chat Log Presented by Howard County Library System in partnership with The Maryland STEM Festival and HAL. Note: This special meeting will not be at RNC. It wil be at: Howard County Library System Elkridge Branch, Belmont / Hockley Room, 6540 Washington Blvd, Elkridge, MD 21075. To […]
Past Meeting: November 21, 2024 – Introduction to Amateur Astronomy: Review of Some Basic Concepts
Presenter: Jim Tomney, Victor Sanchez, & Jim Johnson – Current and former HAL Officers Artifacts: Meeting PDF | Video Recording on YouTube | Chat Log |Download PPT: Naked Eye Astronomy (Jim Tomney) Abstract: The club has welcomed quite a few new members this year. This month’s meeting will cover a few fundamental topics. The idea is […]
Year-End Holiday Party Meeting – December 19th, 2024
Presenter: Santa Claus Once again, as is our long-standing tradition, we will use the occasion of our December meeting to hold our Holiday Pot-Luck Party at the Robinson Nature Center. The meeting will be on Thursday, December 21st from 7 to 9 pm, with doors opening at 6:30 for those who bring something and need some time to […]
Introduction to Amateur Astronomy: Review of Some Basic Concepts – November 21st, 2024
Presenter: Jim Tomney, Victor Sanchez, & Jim Johnson – Current and former HAL Officers Artifacts: Meeting PDF | Video Recording on YouTube | Chat Log |Download PPT: Naked Eye Astronomy (Jim Tomney) Abstract: The club has welcomed quite a few new members this year. This month’s meeting will cover a few fundamental topics. The idea is […]
Space Shuttle Stories – October 17th, 2024
Presenter: Astronaut Thomas Jones Artifacts: Meeting PDF | Video Recording on YouTube | Chat Log Presented by Howard County Library System in partnership with The Maryland STEM Festival and HAL. Note: This special meeting will not be at RNC. It wil be at: Howard County Library System Elkridge Branch, Belmont / Hockley Room, 6540 Washington Blvd, Elkridge, MD 21075. To […]
The Past, Present, and Future of Lunar Sample Analysis – September 19th, 2024
Presenters: Dr. Sarah Valencia, Assistant Research Scientist, University of Maryland/NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center Artifacts: Meeting PDF | Video Recording on YouTube | Chat Log In this talk I will discuss the biggest lessons learned from the analysis of Apollo samples, current advances in sample analysis, and look toward to the exciting return of Artemis samples. Dr. Sarah […]
SOFIA: The Last Flying Observatory – Monthly Meeting – August 15th
Presenters: Sachin(dev) Shenoy, Principal Staff Scientist Artifacts: Meeting PDF | Video Recording on YouTube | Chat Log SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, was a Boeing 747SP aircraft modified to carry a 2.7-meter (106-inch) reflecting telescope (with an effective diameter of 2.5 meters or 100 inches). Flying into the stratosphere at 38,000-45,000 feet put […]
Two Years of Exploring the Universe with JWST – Monthly Meeting – July 18th
In this presentation, Dr. Kelly Lepo will take a deep dive into some of Webb’s latest discoveries, including how galaxies in the early universe are not quite like what we expected, what glowing dust can tell us about how stars form and die, and how we can observe the atmospheres of planets inside our solar system and around other stars.
Cosmic Visions – Monthly Meeting – June 20th
Presenters: Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett, Founders of The World According to Sound Artifacts: Meeting PDF | Video Recording on YouTube | Chat Log Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett from the Ways of Knowing podcast are coming to talk about Cosmic Visions, their radio series about the history of astronomy. Their show takes listeners from the first lunar calendars and the […]