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Featured Speakers for 2025
Dates, times, and speakers are:
January 16, 2025, 7:00 pm, Activity Center - Mr. Ari Espinoza, Outreach Coordinator for HiRISE (High Resolution Science Experiment), will present :"So, You Think You're Going to Mars?"
February 20, 2025, 7:00 pm, Activity Center - Dr. Joe Schools will present, "How Planets and Moons Release Heat; Plate Tectonics, Heat Pipes, Stagnant Lids, and Whatever Venus is Doing".
March 20, 2025, 7:00 pm, Activity Center - Brother Guy Consolmagno will present, "A Jesuit’s Guide to the Stars".
April 17, 2025, 7:00 pm, Activity Center - Dr. Tom Zega will present, "The Findings of OSIRIS-Rex Missions- Asteroid Bennu Sample"
May 15, 2025, 7:00 pm, Activity Center - Dr. Aaron Meisner will present, "Brown Dwarfs".
September 18, 2025, 7:00pm, Activity Center - Dr. Erika Hamden will present, "Using Ultraviolet Light to Study Galaxy Evolution and Star Formation".
October 16, 2025, 7:00pm, Activity Center, - David Eicher will present, "Galaxies".
November 20, 2025, 7:00pm, Activity Center, - Dr. Kevin Hainline will present, "The Earliest Galaxies in our Universe and the Black Holes They Contain".
December 18, 2025, 7:00pm, Activity Center, - Dr. Mathieu Renzo will present, "The Evolution, Death, and Afterlife of Massive Stars".
Each above session includes an excellent speaker. More details HERE
Star Parties
See our calendar HERE for the current schedule. We normally have 5 to 6 telescopes for viewing. You may bring your own binoculars which would be helpful for your personal tour of the night sky. There is always a member of our club that will help guide us through the night sky.
April: The postponed March star party will be held on April 2nd, from 7:00 to 9:00 pm at the golf cart parking lot. This program will be led by Chuck Dugan and his Astronomy Adventures Arizona team. [If evening is overcast, the star party will be held on April 3rd.] On the 1st of April at nightfall, the crescent Moon hovers just above the famous Seven Sisters Stars (Pleiades star cluster), a major treat through binoculars. On the 2nd, the waxing crescent Moon meets Jupiter. Spot their approach as dusk fades to darkness. Jupiter will shine at a very bright magnitude -2.1 in the night sky.
Field Trips
We organize outstanding trips to locations of astronomical interest.
School Outreach
We coordinate with the Coronado K-8 school to provide classroom instructions by our members. Our Club members make tax free donations that allow us to provide every 5th grade student with a telescope.
