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Topic: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: NASA’s Next Flagship Mission Speaker: Rob Zellem BS, MSc, PhD Dr. Rob Zellem is an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. His research focuses on the characterization of the atmospheres of exoplanets using both the transit and direct imaging methods. Rob is the Deputy Project Scientist for […]

Topic: The Grand Canyon Star Party Speaker: SDAA Members

Topic: A Brief Introduction to Radio Astronomy and Some Powerful, Affordable Radio Telescopes You Can Put in Your Backyard without Irritating Your Family or Neighbors! Speaker: Curt Kinghorn The branch of Astronomy called Radio Astronomy uses radio waves instead of visible light to look at the sky. Interestingly, most of what we know about the

Topic: Open Mic Member Night to Share Totality Eclipse Adventures! Send your photos, (solar and otherwise), to vicepresident@sdaa.org by Sunday, April 14th to have them included in the program slides. Looking forward to seeing everyone’s photos and hearing your stories! The meeting will be held via Zoom. See https://sdaa.org/program-meeting/.

Topic: Totality Eclipse Prep with discussions led by SDAA in-house experts The meeting will be held in-person at Mission Trails Regional Park. See https://sdaa.org/program-meeting/.

Topic: Women in Astronomy, Credit Where Credit is Due Speaker: Sharon Flemings The February 21 program meeting speaker (via Zoom) is Sharon Flemings from the TVA “Chapter” in Florida. Her talk is on “Women in Astronomy, Credit Where Credit is Due.” Sharon is a Temecula Valley Astronomers (TVA) member currently living in St Augustine, Florida.

Topic: Astronomical Word Play Speaker: Dr. Richard Lederer Our speaker is the distinguished verbavore Dr. Richard Lederer, who is an American linguist, author, speaker, and teacher. He is best known for his books on the English language and on wordplay such as puns, oxymorons, and anagrams. He has been dubbed “the Wizard of Idiom,” “Attila