The “Great American Eclipse”, as the press has labeled it, will be on Monday, August 21st. Although Connecticut is well out of the path where the Sun will be totally eclipsed by the Moon, the Litchfield Hills Amateur Astronomy Club and White Memorial Conservation Center are hosting a special daytime program to observe the eclipse. Read More...
Talk topic: Eclipse wrap-up. There won't be a talk - more of a discussion about the eclipse. Bring photos if you have any and share your experience of the eclipse. Talk starts in the AB Ceder room. After the talk there will be stargazing if the weather permits. Free; open to the public. Children under Read More...
Talk topic: No talk this month, stargazing only, weather permitting. (If the weather does not permit, the event is cancelled.) Free; open to the public. Children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult. Dress warmly, as even in the summer it may be chilly.
In a talk at the Oliver Wolcott Library in Litchfield, Joe will discuss the nature of Light. When you hear or read about astronomy, descriptions of stars or galaxies, or the discovery of planets in a distant solar system, do you ever wonder how scientists discovered all that information? It is amazing that no human Read More...
Talk topic: Is Santa bringing a Telescope? Russ will give a talk on how to pick out a really nice Christmas present of a telescope. (For yourself or someone else?) Of course, he will bring examples of each type of telescope from his collection. Not interested in getting a scope? Come anyway - it's a Read More...
Talk topic: Radio Astronomy - Seeing the Invisible. Free, open to the public. After the talk there will be stargazing if the weather permits. Children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult. Dress warmly, as even in the summer it may be chilly.
Talk topic: Galaxies and Gravity. Talk starts in the AB Ceder room. After the talk there will be stargazing if the weather permits. Free; open to the public. Children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult. Dress warmly, as even in the summer it may be chilly.
Talk topic: Space Rocks! Was Chicken Little right? Is the sky really falling? What are meteorites? Where do they come from? What are they made of? We will discuss these and other interesting facts about meteorites. The talk starts in the AB Ceder room. After the talk there will be stargazing if the weather permits. Read More...
The 2018 star parties at White Memorial continue on Friday, May 18, with a new talk called "Earth's Magnetic field". Ever wondered why a compass points North? Why not South, or East? We all learned that Earth has a magnetic field, but what does that mean and why is it important? Talk starts in the Read More...
Every 26 months, Earth catches up to Mars and passes directly between Mars and the Sun, an event called opposition. This year, there's an opposition in late July; Mars and Earth will be closer than any time since 2003. This month's talk is an updated version of "Mars! The Red Planet in fact, fiction and Read More...