SCOPES photos: Thursday, June 5, 2025

John C. Martin from the Henry Barber Observatory at the University of Illinois Springfield (left) and Matt Craig from the Paul P. Feder Observatory at Minnesota State University Moorhead (center) introduced history and challenges in session 1. Peh Ng, chair of the Division of Science and Math in Morris (right, front) welcomed participants. Vuk Mandic, UMn Twin Cities, and Sylke Boyd, UMn Morris, (not pictured) introduced the Kapemni program at Morris n this session.

Michael Coughlin from the Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics at UMn Twin Cities gave a public lecture "Eyes and Ears on Spacetime" about the hunt for the optical signals of gravitational wave events.

There were SCOPES cookies for refreshment after the lecture, with the SCOPES logo on them!

It was raining. No telescope action was possible outside. Some of us were treated to performances of "Night Songs" by James Flaten from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities., a wonderful combination of images, music, poems about space, earth, the sky, and caring about it all.