2021 Monthly Meeting Presentations
The meetings normally occur on the first Thursday of the month at 7:00 p.m. See the club website home page each month for more details.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, our meetings have been presented virtually online using the Webex platform.
January 7, 2021 – Mark (Indy) Kochte, NASA Science Operations Specialist, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; “What is a Planet? Defining the Undefineable!”
February 11, 2021 – Robert P. Naeye, former editor-in-chief of Sky & Telescope magazine; “Detecting Life Beyond Earth”
March 4, 2021 – Morgan Cable, PhD, Ocean Worlds Program Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; “Exploration of the Solar System’s Ocean Worlds”
April 1, 2021 – Richard S. Wright, astronomy author and astro-photographer; “First Principles of Astrophotography”
May 6, 2021 – Dan Reichart, PhD, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill; Topic to be announced soon
June 3, 2021 – Speaker to be determined; Topic to be determined
July 1, 2021 – Speaker to be determined; Topic to be determined
August 5, 2021 – Speaker to be determined; Topic to be determined
September 2, 2021 – Speaker to be determined; Topic to be determined
October 7, 2021 – Speaker to be determined; Topic to be determined
November 4, 2021 – Speaker to be determined; Topic to be determined
December 2, 2021 – Speaker to be determined; Topic to be determined