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RocheStar Fest August 27-28, 2021.
2020 Conjunction Member Images!
October 4th Virtual Star Party
Click on the following link to open the Oct 4 virtual star party. Click on the ‘Play’ arrow at the lower left corner to start playback.
Associated You Tube recording:
July 17 Joint ASRAS-RAS Virtual Meeting
Click Here to view the July Meeting Video. Turn on your computer speaker.
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July 24 Virtual Star Party
Click here to view the July 24 Star Party Video recording.
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May ASRAS Virtual Meeting Video
Click Here to view the May Meeting Video. Turn on your computer speaker.
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April Meeting: Video
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Updates on THREE Radio Telescope projects from Marty Pepe
This note is a follow-up to the many questions I received at the Feb ASRAS meeting Friday night on how the radio telescope project (Solar Spectrometer) is going and the other projects I’m involved with at RIT.
As most ASRAS members know, I retired from the board so as to be able to concentrate on bringing the Solar Telescope project to fruition in Ionia. This RT project has been making its way through the different development phases while at RIT in a program called Multidisciplinary Senior Design (MSD). It is a process driven class, where seniors of different majors (ME, EE, CS, etc.) work on projects in a team environment. Just like real life in Industry. I’ve been both the customer for their efforts and mentor for two years.
Little did I realize at the time, I would be asked to rejoin RIT (3rd time around) as a mentor for other projects given my background, and the fact there’s been a spike in enrollment of this class (up 30%).
Below please find a link to the three projects I’m presently ‘shepherding’;
Solar Spectrometer;
A radio astronomy project to study the RF signature of Sunspots.
http://edge.rit.edu/edge/P18571/public/Home
K- Mirror
An upgrade to the original prototype RT dish for ALMA (Chile) on Kitt Peak owned by the U of Arizona to convert it to an imaging RT spectrometer running at 200 – 300 GHz.
http://edge.rit.edu/edge/P18572/public/Home
Hybrid Rocket Motor
Project to develop a hybrid rocket motor (for a yet to be designed rocket) to go to 30K ft for a nationwide college IREC competition to be held in New Mexico in 2019.
Elliott Montroll Lecture Series at U of R in February !
Connie Jones from the U of R Physics and Astronomy office would like to announce the Elliott Montroll lectures with Prof David Stevenson from Cal Tech.
Lecture dates will be :
Feb 20: Planetary Diversity, 4:00 pm, Bausch and Lomb Hall 109
Feb 21: Origin of the Moon, 4:00 pm, Lander Auditorium, Hutchison Hall
Feb 22: Jupiter, 7:00 pm, Memorial Art Gallery Auditorium
Click links below to see more details for each lecture
Elliott Montroll Poster (all 3 lectures)
2018 PAS poster
2018 MAG poster
2018 ESS poster