George Mason Observatory’s ‘Evenings Under the Stars’ series (where you’ll also get to look at awesome galaxies, stars, planets and more through our 0.8 meter telescope!) is back for Fall 2013!  The dates for all the events are on the google calendar and there will be posts with information about each session and talk as its date approaches.  Click on the title above for the full schedule!  As always the events are free and everyone is invited!

Here’s the basic schedule with some extra talk details about the first 2 talks.  Click on the title of this post to access the full schedule. Information on future talks will be added soon:

• Monday 26 August 2013: Dr. Harold Geller will speak about the expectations associated with future visits of extraterrestrial intelligent civilizations in a talk titled How will the Kanamits serve mankind? Shall we expect extraterrestrial altruism or extraterrestrial malevolence? Talk at 8 PM. Same talk at 8:45PM   Observing starts at 8:30PM until 10PM

• UPDATE: Monday Sept 9 talk Postponed due to cloudiness to Monday 16 September 2013: Darryl Wilson will talk about Observing Saturn. 1st talk at 8PM, same talk at 8:45PM, observing starts at 8:30PM until 10PM

• Monday 23 September 2013: Prof. Chris Clarke will talk about Fracking. 1st talk at 8PM, same talk at 8:45PM, observing starts at 8:30PM until 10PM

• UPDATE: Monday October 7 talk Postponed due to poor weather to Monday 14 October 2013: Lauren Wilson will give a talk on Game Management – Can hunting animals be the best way to save them? 1st talk at 7:30PM, same talk at 8:15PM, observing starts at 8:00PM until 10PM

• Monday 21 October 2013: Adam Cadien will talk about The most important problem you’ve never heard of – Finding Global Minimum in the Potential Energy Landscape!  1st talk at 7:30PM, same talk at 8:15PM, observing starts at 8:00PM until 10PM

• UPDATE: Monday November 4 talk Postponed due to poor weather to Monday 11 November 2013:  Advait Jukar will give a Mass Extinctions talk! Recommended for kids! 1st talk at 7PM, same talk at 7:45PM, observing starts at 7:30PM until 9:30PM

• Monday 18 November 2013: Manuela Dal Forno will give a Fungi talk! Recommended for kids! 1st talk at 7PM, same talk at 7:45PM, observing starts at 7:30PM until 9:30PM

• Monday 2 December 2013: Derek Fertig will talk about Radio Astronomy.  1st talk at 6:30PM, same talk at 7:15PM, observing starts at 7PM until 9PM

• Monday 16 December 2013: Dr. Harold Geller will give an encore talk about the expectations associated with future visits of extraterrestrial intelligent civilizations in a talk titled How will the Kanamits serve mankind? Shall we expect extraterrestrial altruism or extraterrestrial malevolence? 1st talk at 6:30PM, same talk at 7:15PM, observing starts at 7PM until 9PM

How to get here – Directions to GMU and Research Hall here: http://eagle.gmu.edu/map/fairfax.php   Zoom in to find Research Hall next to engineering building and York River Rd.  Just keep an eye out for weather – talks and observing may be postponed to a back up date because of weather – updates will be available here – Observatory Twitter