March Meeting
Saturday, March 1, 2025, 4:30 pm
Smart Telescopes & Comets
Greetings! For our March meeting, we have a special treat for our members and guests this Saturday, March 1st! Our own Conrad Cardano will give a workshop on the SeeStar S50 4:30pm, followed by refreshments at 5:30pm, and then Dr. Abhinav Jindal from Brown University will give a talk on comets at 6:00pm. Its going to be a fun and informative night so I hope you will join us. If you are joining us by Zoom, please use the meeting link below for both sessions. Details about the meeting and speakers can be found below.
Michael
Conrad Cardano Presents
Smart Telescopes – The Seestar S50
Saturday, March 1st, 4:30pm
Smart telescopes are a fun, interactive, and hassle-free astrophotography experience. These all-in-one systems take the complicated nature out of astrophotography by condensing a camera, mount, and telescope into a small unit.
With your smartphone or tablet, you’re can discover the cosmos night after night. These scopes are highly portable and perfect for engaging astronomy sessions on the go!
The presentation will start with a 3 minute presentation of 25 images taken by the Seestar S50.
Afterwards, there will be another presentation describing:
· The Seestar and Outreach
· Common Features with both
· Big differences
· What both cannot do
· Useful Accessories
Finally, there will be a live demo with the Seestar S50 showing:
· The Seestar App.
· Setting up a Seestar
· Navigating the menus
· Finding objects and photographing
Date: Saturday, March 1, 2025
Time: 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Eastern
Location: North Scituate Community House
546 West Greenville Rd.
North Scituate, RI
SKYSCRAPERS MARCH MEETING
In-person and via Zoom
Meeting & Speaker
Saturday, March 1, 2025, 5:30PM
at N. Scituate Community House
546 W. Greenville Rd., N. Scituate, RI
Skyscrapers, Inc. is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Skyscrapers Monthly Meeting
Time: Mar 1, 2025 04:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/
Meeting ID: 858 5701 9855
Passcode: 517290
Dr. Abhinav Jindal, Brown University
Comets: From Fiery Omens to Icy Worlds
For much of human history, comets have been viewed as harbingers of doom—celestial messengers foretelling disaster. But as our understanding of the universe has advanced, so too has our perception of these enigmatic objects. In this talk, we will journey through the history of cometary science, from ancient superstitions to modern spacecraft exploration. What are comets, and why are they so important for understanding the origins of our solar system?
I will discuss some of the biggest questions in cometary science and share insights from my own research on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, using data from the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission to study how comets change over time. We will conclude with a look at the future of comet exploration, including upcoming sample return missions that could revolutionize our understanding of these icy relics from the early solar system.
Bio:
I am a planetary scientist and postdoctoral researcher at Brown University, where I study the processes that shape the surfaces of rocky and icy bodies in our solar system using remote sensing data. My current research primarily focuses on understanding the evolution of cometary surfaces using data from the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Unlike previous missions that provided only brief snapshots of comet nuclei, Rosetta spent over two years orbiting 67P, allowing us to observe surface changes in unprecedented detail. However, many of these changes remain undetected due to the complexity of the dataset. We are working on developing tools to enhance the analysis of Rosetta’s vast imaging archive, as well as using thermophysical models to better understand how the sublimation of volatiles drives cometary surface evolution.
Additionally, here is a link to my webpage if needed: https://sites.google.
