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Meeting features presentations by Siddharth Thambidurai on Exoplanet detection and by Professor Shelley Wright on Unique Astronomical Instrumentation.

Subject: SDAA Town Hall Membership Meeting, Thursday, Feb 19 via Zoom: Zoom Meeting Link Meeting ID: 841 3570 3991 Passcode: 445223 Meeting Join Instructions Updates, Open Discussion, and Next Steps 60 minutes. Less “program meeting,” more member input. Hi everyone — please join us for our SDAA Town Hall on February 19, 2026, at 7:00PM

November 19, 2025 SDAA Program Topic: Annual Gadget Night Location: Ballast Point Brewing at Miramar https://ballastpoint.com/location/miramar Gadget Night is Back – Fresh Ideas, Cool Tech, Great Company! ***Seating is limited – stay tuned for sign-up details!*** Join us for SDAA’s Annual Gadget Night on Wednesday, November 19, 2025, from 6–9 PM at Ballast Point Miramar! This

Speaker: Rich Kagawa, NASA-JPL Solar System Ambassador Topic: Not Just Mars: NASA’s Search for Life on Europa, Enceladus, and Titan Please plan to join us for an exciting talk that will include: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/ambassadors/787

Topic: American Women Astronauts Speaker: Dr. Neil Farber We are excited to welcome back Dr. Neil Farber for our September program! The topic will be: American Women Astronauts This presentation traces the inspiring history of women who aspired to become NASA astronauts. It begins with the “Mercury 13,” highly qualified women pilots who passed the physical

Speaker: Richard Wolff-JacobsonTopic: Historical and Modern Tools for Celestial Wayfinding We’re excited to welcome Richard Wolff-Jacobson for a talk that will explore how we describe, measure, and communicate positions in the night sky. He’ll provide helpful background information and introduce modern tools such as encoders, plate solving techniques, and a closer look at the PiFinder.

Topic: Astrobiology: The Search for Life Speaker: Dr. Neil Farber People have often pondered the question of whether we are alone in the universe. More than seeking intelligent life, a fundamental question is whether life of any form exists on other planets or moons. This talk will examine how NASA is seeking out the possibility

Topic: You can almost touch the stars – An Introduction to Astronomical Spectroscopy Speaker: Tom Field Even if you wanted to touch a star, they’re all impossibly distant. In spite of these great distances, astronomers have learned an enormous amount about stars. How? The most common method to study the stars is called spectroscopy, which