It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

— Plato

NJAG Monthly Meetings 2015

By Kevin at Mon, 12/08/2014 - 5:32pm
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Repeats every month on the second Wednesday until Sun May 31 2015 .
Wed, 01/14/2015 - 8:00pm - 10:30pm
Wed, 02/11/2015 - 8:00pm - 10:30pm
Wed, 03/11/2015 - 8:00pm - 10:30pm
Wed, 04/08/2015 - 8:00pm - 10:30pm
Wed, 05/13/2015 - 8:00pm - 10:30pm

Monthly meetings of the NJAG are free and open to the public - all are welcomed. Meetings usually feature a presentation about astronomy or space science by an amateur or professional astronomer. Click "Read More" below for details!

Meetings are held on the second Wednesday of the month (except August) and begin at about 8:00 p.m.; light refreshments will be served. Meeting will be held at Montclair State University in Richardson Hall in room 232 on the second floor. For directions, click on 'Directions' at top of the page.

May Meeting

Submitted by Kevin
on Mon, 05/11/2015 - 11:53pm

 

Join us on May 13 for presentations by Montclair State students who will describe their astronomy and physics projects from this year. The topics and speakers are Modeling Gravitational Waves for Elliptical Orbits – Blake Moore, Gravitational Lensing of Light Near Black Holes – Nicholas Drywa, Nonlinear Gravitational Wave Memory from Merging Binary Black Holes – Goran Dojcinoski, Fluid-Structure interactions – Doralia Castillo, and On the 3 dimensional Fluid-structure Interaction of Flexible Fibers in a Flow – Ryan Allaire.

Video Imaging

Submitted by Kevin
on Wed, 03/11/2015 - 9:44pm

M42 Mallincam by Daniel BorcardOur guest speaker for the April NJAG meeting will be Joe Sardina. He will give a presentation about Video Imaging with a Mallincam video camera at the April meeting. Learn how the MallinCam has changed astronomical observing from looking through an eyepiece to looking at a live image on your laptop. We will also enjoy virtual observing with other amateurs broadcasting live from around the world at Joseph’s Night Skies Network during the meeting.

 

Join us!

 Dr. Chuck Keeton of Rutgers

Submitted by Kevin
on Thu, 03/05/2015 - 11:42am

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Dr. Chuck Keeton of Rutgers University will give a presentation at the March meeting of the North Jersey Astronomical Group. Dr. Keeton will discuss how the gravity of distant galaxies can be used as a lens to study the mysterious invisible “Dark Matter” that constitutes 85% of all the matter in the Universe.

 

Copies of his new book “A Ray of Light in a Sea of Dark Matter” will be available for purchase and autograph. The meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 11 at 8:00 p.m.

 

Dr. Charles R. Keeton II is Associate Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers University. He was previously a NASA Hubble Fellow at the University of Chicago, a Bart J. Bok Fellow at the University of Arizona, and received the Derek Bok Center Award from Harvard University.

 

 

Robotic Repair Satellites

Submitted by Kevin
on Thu, 02/05/2015 - 1:05pm

SatelliteThe February meeting of NJAG will feature a presentation about satellites!

 Future Capability of Robotic Repair Satellites Benefits Satellite Astronomy Today
by  Bernie Kelm

Mr. Kelm is an Aerospace Engineer at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory where he has worked for the past 24 years. For the past 12 years he has worked to transform the possibility of robotic satellite servicing from science fiction to a potential new capability for our space fleet.  Mr. Kelm will show a short video on the topic and then discuss this new capability with an emphasis on how satellite astronomy has already benefited this development. Note Mr. Kelm will be giving his presentation via Skype.