WRAL Speaker Lists

Bear Valley Springs Astronomy Club

Selected Speakers List

•  Mark Pestana, Space Artist & NASA Flight Engineer

­        "ISS Operations Development"

­        "Space Art"

• Teresa Bippert-Plymate, Univ of Arizona – Retired

­        "Telescopes of Southern Arizona"

­        "Women in Astronomy" (with Dr Denise Lewis)

­        "The Smart Telescope Revolution"

•  Dr Steve Howell, NASA Ames

­        "Kepler Exoplanet Mission"

•  Claude Plymate; National Solar Obs, Big Bear Solar Obs – Retired

­        "Stellar Classification & the H-R Diagram"

­        "Solar Eclipses"

"The Speed of light & Special Relativity"

•  Dr Don Jennings, NASA/GSFC – Retired

­        "New Horizons Mission"

• Tim Thompson, JPL Retired - Mt Wilson Inst.

­       "A Universe of Stars"

•  Dr Robin Shelton, UofGeorgia

­        "The Cosmic Drama: Galaxies in Motion"

•  Dr Drake Deming, Univ of Maryland

­        "Exoplanets with JWST"

•  Dr Denise Lewis, Univ of Georga Retired

­        "Dark Skies"

­        "Women in Astronomy" (with Teresa Bippert-Plymate)

•  Dr Steve Ertel, University of Arizona

­        "Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer"

•  Tom Polakis, Amateur & Lowell Obs

­        "NASA's DART Mission: Crashing a Spacecraft Into an Asteroid"

­        "Time-lapse Imaging: Beyond The Solar System"

•  Dr Jeff Morgenthaler, Planetary Science Institute

­        "Volcanic Outburst on Jupiter’s Moon Io captured with the Io Input/Output Obs"

•  Mark Evanetich 

­        "Images of and setup for The Great American Eclipse"

•  Dr Travis Rector, Univ of Alaska

­        "The Connection Between Astronomy and Climate Change"

•  Dr Richard Green, Univ of Arizona

­        "Fighting to Save the Night Sky"

•  Bob Baer, Univ of Illinois – Carbondale

­        "Eclipses Abroad"

•  Geo Samoza, Educator

­       "Griffith Observatory"