- Friday, January 16, 2009. Telescope Workshop. Have a telescope, and don’t know what to do with it? Come to this meeting and get help.
- Friday, February 20, 2009. Yasu Inugi, Charlie Nielsen, Dave Snyder, Jack Brisbin (all from the University Lowbrow Astronomers): “Amateur Astronomy: From Ann Arbor to the Universe.”
- Friday, March 20, 2009. Pat Seitzer (Associate Research Scientist in the University of Michigan Department of Astronomy):
“Applied Astronomy: An Optical Survey for Space Debris.”
- Friday, April 17, 2009. Elections and Swap Meet.
- Friday, May 15, 2009. Belinda Lee & Mark Deprest (University Lowbrow Astronomers): “The Night Sky Network: How to Share the Joy of Astronomy.”
- Friday, June 19, 2009. Arthur Suits (Professor, Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University): “Titan: A Strangely Familiar World.”
- Friday, July 17, 2009. John Kirchhoff (Rider’s Hobby Shops): “New Equipment Show and Demo.” This meeting will take place in room 402 of Sherzer Observatory. Sherzer Observatory is located on the campus of Eastern Michigan University [click here for a map].
- Friday, August 21, 2009. Sandra Macika (Ford Amateur Astronomy Club): “Science at the Lick Observatory.”
- Friday, September 18, 2009. Jack Lousma (Former NASA Astronaut): “Perspectives from Space.”
- Sunday, October 11, 2009. Brother Guy Consolmagno (Vatican Astronomer). [Note special time and place below....]
The University Lowbrow Astronomers present Brother Guy Consolmagno, a prominent Research Astronomer working for the Vatican Observatory. His talk is titled “Are Asteroids Fluffy?” The event is scheduled for Sunday, October 11, 2009 at 4:00 PM. The location is Room 170 of the Dennison Building at 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan. This event is free and open to the public.
Brother Guy Consolmagno was born in 1952 in Detroit. He is a research astronomer and planetary scientist working at the Vatican Observatory in Arizona. Brother Guy has written over 40 research papers and co-authored several popular books on astronomy. His research has centered on the connections between meteorites and asteroids, and in 1996 he attended an expedition that gathered meteorites from Antarctic ice fields. Brother Guy believes in the need for science and religion to work alongside one another rather than as competing ideologies. He is considered by his peers and the astronomical community as an excellent speaker with a witty and timely sense of humor.
- Friday, October 16, 2009. Mark Deprest & Friends (all from the University Lowbrow Astronomers): “Okie-Tex Star Party Report.”
- Friday, November 20, 2009. Michael Foerster (NASA JPL ambassador): “The Science of SETI.”
- Friday, December 18, 2009. Tim McKay (Arthur Thurnau Professor of Physics, University of Michigan). “Universal access to the sky: amateurs, professionals, and the virtual observatory.”
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