Date: 2009/09/26 – 2009/09/26
Time: 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Venue: NRC Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory 717 White Lake Road Penticton, BC
Several of us took the morning down at the Observatory, checking out the equipment and listening to lectures by the scientists who work there. Good geeky fun.
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Anybody want to go to Naramata Aug 27?? Might be a cool outing if anyone’s not too worried about work the next morning.
I think we will attend this lecture and therefore cancel our regularly scheduled meeting on that Wednesday (Aug 29th). The giraffes reading will hold over into September, instead.
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August 12, 2007 / 7:30 am
A guest speaker will be in the South Okanagan later this month to talk about stars with interested residents.
Doctor Edward Churchwell of the University of Wisconsin, will be in Naramata on August 27 to host a lecture on the Milky Way.
New images from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope will be shown.
After Dr. Churchwell, Penticton’s own Dr. Ken Tapping, well known astronomer from the White Lake Observatory, will give details of the eclipse of the Moon that will be visible from the Okanagan in the early hours of the next morning.
The lecture takes place at the Columbia Hall in the Naramata Centre and runs from 7:30 until 9 p.m. This is a free public event.
Seems interesting. If we all showed up, they’d no doubt be surprised 
A lecture on BeThinking about the origins of the Universe is here (audio or text available):
Beyond the Big Bang by W.L. Craig http://www.bethinking.org/resource.php?ID=51
Also one by Hugh Ross on Astrophysics, too. http://www.bethinking.org/resource.php?ID=276&TopicID=2&CategoryID=1
Either one would be a good bit of reading before the 27th.
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