UPDATE: The Observing session and lecture has been postponed due to poor weather to Monday, May 12th.  Talk at 8:00 PM and observing from 8:30 to 10 PM.

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 Spring 2014!  The next event will be Monday, May 12th and will feature a talk by Greg Redfern on ‘A Cosmic Detective Story – The Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater’! Talk at 8:00 PM. Observing starts at 8:30PM until 10:00PM. Arrive at the lobby of Research Hall. As always the event is free and everyone is invited!  We hope you can come out and join us!

Remember that there will only be one talk given during each observing session so make sure you don’t miss it!  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.  Keep an eye on twitter for updates – because the event has already been postponed once we’ll be holding the talk and event regardless of the weather – updates will be available here –

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 Spring 2014!  The next event will be Monday, April 21st and will feature a talk by Korey Haynes on ‘Characterizing Exoplanets – The Next Frontier’! Talk at 8:00 PM. Observing starts at 8:30PM until 10:00PM. Arrive at the lobby of Research Hall. As always the event is free and everyone is invited!  We hope you can come out and join us!

Remember that there will only be one talk given during each observing session so make sure you don’t miss it!  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.  Keep an eye on twitter for updates – Just keep an eye out for weather – the event may be postponed or cancelled due to bad conditions – updates will be available here – Observatory Twitter

About the talk:

One of the most exciting fields in astronomy right now is exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. Kepler and other missions have found well over a thousand …

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 Spring 2014!  The next event will be Monday, April 14th and will feature a talk by Prof. Joe Weingartner on ‘Kepler Observatory Results – Finding Exoplanets’! Talk at 7:30 PM. Observing starts at 8:00PM until 9:30PM. Arrive at the lobby of Research Hall. As always the event is free and everyone is invited!  We hope you can come out and join us!

Remember that there will only be one talk given during each observing session so make sure you don’t miss it!  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.  Keep an eye on twitter for updates – Just keep an eye out for weather – the event may be postponed or cancelled due to bad conditions – updates will be available here – Observatory Twitter

About the talk:

The Kepler observatory is a space based telescope that has been looking for planets orbiting stars outside of our solar system since its launch in March 2009.  …

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 Spring 2014!  The next event will be Monday, March 24th and will feature a talk by Greg Redfern on ‘The Sky is Falling – Space Rocks and You’! Talk at 7:30 PM. Observing starts at 8:00PM until 9:30PM. Arrive at the lobby of Research Hall. As always the event is free and everyone is invited!  We hope you can come out and join us!

Remember that there will only be one talk given during each observing session so make sure you don’t miss it!  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.  Keep an eye on twitter for updates – Just keep an eye out for weather – the event may be postponed or cancelled due to bad conditions – updates will be available here – Observatory Twitter

About the talk:

Meteorites are pieces of debris from space that impact the Earth’s surface.  They vary in size, appearance composition and origin and can be fascinating pieces …

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 Spring 2014!  The next event will be Monday, March 10th and will feature a talk by Darryl Wilson on ‘Lunar Phases’! Talk at 7:00 PM. Observing starts at 7:30PM until 9:30PM. Arrive at the lobby of Research Hall. As always the event is free and everyone is invited!  We hope you can come out and join us!

Remember that there will only be one talk given during each observing session so make sure you don’t miss it!  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.  Keep an eye on twitter for updates – Just keep an eye out for weather – the event may be postponed or cancelled due to bad conditions – updates will be available here – Observatory Twitter

About the talk:

The moon is one of the brightest and most stunning objects in the night sky.  It is large enough to show recognizable detail with almost any size telescope.  This talk will describe …

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 Spring 2014!  The next event will be Monday, February 10th and will feature a talk by Prof. Jessica Rosenberg on ‘Cosmic Collisions’! Talk at 6:00 PM. Observing starts at 6:30PM until 8:30PM. Arrive at the lobby of Research Hall. As always the event is free and everyone is invited!  We hope you can come out and join us!

Remember that there will only be one talk given during each observing session so make sure you don’t miss it!  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.  Keep an eye on twitter for updates – Just keep an eye out for weather – the event may be postponed or cancelled due to bad conditions – updates will be available here – Observatory Twitter

Cosmic Collisions will look at the role of collisions in galaxy evolution.  Attendees will learn about the structure of galaxies, how far they are from us and what we know and want to …

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 Spring 2014!  The next event will be Monday, February 24th and will feature a talk by Darryl Wilson on ‘Observing Jupiter with a Telescope’! Talk at 6:00 PM. Observing starts at 6:30PM until 8:30PM. Arrive at the lobby of Research Hall. As always the event is free and everyone is invited!  We hope you can come out and join us!

Remember that there will only be one talk given during each observing session so make sure you don’t miss it!  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.  Keep an eye on twitter for updates – Just keep an eye out for weather – the event may be postponed or cancelled due to bad conditions – updates will be available here – Observatory Twitter

About the talk:

The moon is  in the night sky.  It is also large enough to show recognizable detail with almost any size telescope.  This talk will describe Jupiter and its Galilean …

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 Spring 2014!  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!  We hope you can come out and join us!

There are a few changes to this semester’s schedule.  First there will only be one talk given during each observing session so make sure you don’t miss it!  Also we have an especially exciting all astronomy/physics lecture packed schedule for this semester!  One thing will remain the same.  Our schedule is set up so that if we have poor weather on the day of the scheduled talk we can postpone the talk to the following monday.  In that case we’ll have the postponement notice up on our website and twitter by the afternoon at latest.  If there is poor weather on the new date as well the event will not be postponed and …