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Show some love on Valentine’s Day … for astronomy

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Join the Hamilton Amateur Astronomers on Valentines Day and share their love of the night sky.

Guest speaker will be McMaster astronomer Robert Cockcroft, who will discuss ancient Egyptian astronomy.

He will give an overview of ancient Egyptian astronomy and then focus on one particular representation of the night sky: the diagonal star tables. He also will discuss a recent expedition to Egypt.

Cockcroft is a post-doctoral research fellow at McMaster University, where he is also the McCallion Planetarium manager and a first-year undergraduate lecturer in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

His graduate research centred on observational astronomy, where he looked at globular clusters in the nearby Triangulum and Andromeda galaxies; his current focus is the history of astronomy.

The meeting and talk is on Friday, Feb. 14, from 7:30-9:30 p.m.,

At the Hamilton Spectator Building, 44 Frid St., Hamilton.

Admission is free and open t the public with door prizes. An optional donation of non-perishable items for local food banks will be collected.

Hamilton Amateur Astronomers is a non-profit club that meets the second Friday of each month except in July and August.

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Two suburban women to work with NASA on astronomy program

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This April 20, 2010 photo shows the bay of a modified Boeing 747SP jetliner containing the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) telescope at a NASA Dryden Flight Research Center test facility in Palmdale, Calif. Two Northwest suburban woman have been selected to participate in the program as airborne astronomy ambassadors.

Associated Press file photo

Marcella Linahan

Lynne Zielinski

Going where few have gone before, two Northwest suburban women will spend a week working with NASA on scientific missions this spring.

Mundelein's Marcella Linahan and Long Grove's Lynne Zielinski will participate in the space agency's Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors program. They'll comprise one of 12 two-person teams from 10 states.

After training in California, they'll fly high-altitude missions on NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy. Called SOFIA for short, it's a modified Boeing 747 jet that's equipped with a large telescope to study objects in space that are visible in infrared light.

The program is scheduled for April and will last one week.

"Excited" doesn't begin to describe how Linahan and Zielinski feel about the opportunity.

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Few ‘Stars’ shine bright in this formulaic rom-com

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Straining to meld a love triangle with an astronomy lesson, the rom-com The Brightest Star disappears into a black hole of clich.

Chris Lowell (an isotope of John Krasinski) plays a mild college student who gets sucked into the gravitational pull of the planet-size eyes of a blond cutie (Rose McIver) in astronomy class. Altering his career trajectory, he orbits around her while taking a depressing corporate job. But isnt his true kindred spirit an artsy downtown folk singer (Jessica Szohr) who rejects the 9-to-5 life?

As dull as the situation is, the execution is even duller. Our doe-eyed young man receives wisdom from an actual astronomer (Allison Janney, the movies only saving grace) and learns that sometimes looking as far away as we can is just a way of ignoring whats right in front of us. Still, any scene containing Janney beats the dopey falling-in-love bits that rely on dialogue like, If we were a color, what color would we be? I dunno, is bland a color?

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Reserve Valentine’s Day dinner with a side of stars, moon at North Hills fundraiser

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Published: Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, 9:00p.m. Updated 10 hours ago

This Valentine's Day, the students in North Hills High School's Astronomy Club are offering the moon and the stars along with dinner.

The Astronomy Club will serve chicken Parmesan, pasta and salad in the cafeteria at the school, 53 Rochester Road, Ross Township. Star-covered tablecloths, electric candles and flower centerpieces will help set the mood.

Proceeds from the dinner will go toward the cost of the Astronomy Club's one-day trip to the Challenger Learning Center in Wheeling, W.Va., in March or April.

The cost is $12 for an adult dinner or $8 for a child's pasta dinner without chicken.

The food will be catered by the district's food services department.

After eating, diners can watch a show in the high school's planetarium, which has a 24-foot dome.

We'll intertwine the use of our optical-mechanical projector, six slide projectors and video projector to show the movie and project constellations and a miniature sky across the dome ceiling, said Buck Batson, a retired North Hills chemistry teacher who unofficially assists his wife astronomy teacher Sue Batson with the running of the planetarium.

Seatings will be offered at 5:30, 6:15 and 7 p.m.

After the 5:30 and 6:15 p.m. dinners, the featured show is Her Seven Brothers. Targeted toward children from preschool through elementary age, it tells a Cheyenne legend about a young Native American girl who travels to the North Country to find her seven brothers, but trouble ensues. The show lasts about 30 minutes.

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Elisa Resconi: The Birth of a New Astronomy: Visualizing the Invisible. BERLIN.MINDS – Video

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Backyard Astronomy

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Topics include basic concepts, observation tools and strategies for a successful observing session. Classes meet Tuesdays through March 4. Registration required. When: Tuesday, January 28, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Where: Millsaps College, Jackson Cost: $100 plus $5 materials fee Contact Phone: 601-974-1130 Categories: All, Community

Backyard Astronomy Tuesdays, January 28 March 4 (6 class mtgs.) 6:00 8:00 p.m.; Cost: $100 (plus $5 materials fee payable to the instructor at the first class meeting)

Astronomy is one of the most challenging, beautiful, and rewarding hobbies! This is your chance to learn about the subject in nonpressured, instructor-led meetings and through hands-on experience. Surveying some of the simpler concepts of astronomy, this intro class also focuses on what can be observed, the tools used, types of observation specialties available, and the strategies for a successful observing session. Resources are identified to continue the learning process and for help along the way. A field trip to the Russell C. Davis Planetarium, located in downtown Jackson, is planned toward the end of the course.

Retired computer consultant Jim Waltman is a past president and newsletter editor of the Jackson Astronomical Association, a member of the Planetary Society, and a member of the Astronomical League. A former adjunct professor of computer science, he has participated in the workshop for Mississippi astronomy educators at French Camp and has been an award-winning participant in local and regional Star Gatherings. Jim has 30 years experience in amateur astronomy.

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Astronomy lecture continues this week at TJC

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Tuesday, January 28, 2014 - 10:25am

Tyler, Texas (KETK) The Tyler Junior College Astronomy Lecture Series will continue Thursday.

Fracking, climate change, the 'God particle', and other top science stories of 2013 will be discussed during the January edition of the Public Astronomy Lecture Series at TJC.

The event is set for 7 p.m. on Thursday, January 30, at the Center for Earth & Space Science Education at TJC which is located at 1411 E. Lake Street on the TJC main campus.

Admission is $5 per person or free with a valid TJC ID, the public is invited to attend.

Programp speaker, Dr. Tom Hooten, is the director of the Center for Earth & Space Science Education and professor of physics and engineering at TJC.

He holds degrees in physics, astronomy, and higher education from the Texas A&M University in Commerce and Vanderbilt University.

The Public Astronomy Lecture Series began in 2004 and continues today as part of the science and education outreach of the Center for Earth & Space Science Education at Tyler Junior College.

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For more information on TJC science center events, go to http://www.tjc.edu/cesse or http://www.facebook.com/TJCCenterforEarthandSpaceScience.

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