Talks for ASRAS (and other groups)

• Nov 3, 2006: Stocking the kitchen: elements produced in the Big Bang
• Oct 6, 2006: Making heavy elements out of light ones: a cosmic cookbook
• Sep 8, 2006: How do we know the composition of stars?
• Apr 7, 2006: News from the world of supernovae
• January 20, 2006: Status of the SDSS-II supernova survey
• May 4, 2007: Extrasolar planets in the News
• July 7, 2007: What is the most distant body in the Solar System? A historical view
• Sep 7, 2007: What is that "Big Void" the newspapers mention?
• Oct 5, 2007: Did amateur astronomers really discover the transit by an extrasolar planet?
• Jan 4, 2008: Variable objects in the Subaru Deep Field
• Jan 17, 2008: Some recent papers on the Milky Way's rotation curve
• Mar 26, 2008: Recent developments in extrasolar planetary science
  This is a short, informal summary -- please read the FOLLOWING item instead.
• Apr 24, 2008: Recent developments in extrasolar planetary science
  This is the better version!
• July 17, 2008: Proper motions of stars in the Subaru Deep Field
  • March 17, 2009: a slightly updated, less technical version
• Oct 3, 2008: The LHC is not going to destroy the Earth
• Jan 23, 2009: How do astronomers measure distances? I. Within the Milky Way
• Mar 20, 2009: How do astronomers measure distances? II. In the neighborhood around the Milky Way
• Apr 22, 2009: How do astronomers measure distances? III. To galaxies beyond the Local Group
• Jul 16, 2009: Searching for variable stars in the SDSS equatorial stripe.
• Nov 6, 2009: A just-too-early summary of the LCROSS mission
• Feb 5, 2010: Very early results from the Kepler mission
• Mar 5, 2010: T Pyx is going to destroy life on Earth!!! Well, no, not really
• Oct 1, 2010: Can you measure the distance to Pluto with a 14-inch telescope?
• Jan 21, 2011: Why are all the stars either blowing up, or collapsing into black holes?
• Apr 22, 2011: Results from the Kepler mission, two years after launch
• May 13, 2011: Results from the Kepler mission, two years after launch
  (this abbreviated version was a short talk at the RIT Observatory Open House)
• June 16, 2011: Looking for eclipsing binary RR Lyr stars
• July 22, 2011: What kind of sports would galaxies play?
• Nov 4, 2011: SN 2011fe in M101
• Doing science with small telescopes (PDF)
  
  A presentation describing projects one can do with small telescopes and high-school or college students, given at the AAPT meeting in Ontario, CA, Feb 6, 2012
• Apr 11, 2012: Who measured the solar system -- and how?
• Aug 08, 2012: Extragalactic astronomy from the RIT campus
• Sep 28, 2012: A status report on the Mars Science Laboratory
• Nov 13, 2012: Test of non-sidereal tracking on the WIYN 0.9m telescope
• Mar 8, 2013: Astronomical Jargon
• Apr 5, 2013: Some tips for photometry of comets
• Apr 13, 2013: Astronomical imaging: catching up to the 1950s
• Jun 08, 2013: How can we distinguish giants from dwarfs?
• Sep 09, 2013: What do I do?
• Sep 13, 2013: SN 2013ej in M74
• May 30, 2014: Making quantitative measurements using CCD images (I)
• June 12, 2014: Tips and tricks for photometry of supernovae
• Jun 20, 2014: Making quantitative measurements using CCD images (II)
• Aug 08, 2014: Making quantitative measurements using CCD images (III)
• Oct 03, 2014: The MAVEN and MOM spacecraft reach Mars
• Oct 24, 2014: First results from the MAVEN and MOM spacecraft at Mars
• Dec 13, 2014: The Rosetta/Philae mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
• Feb 15, 2015: Three ways to observe variable stars, even in a city
• Apr 1, 2015: The Rosetta/Philae mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (updated)
• May 15, 2015: What sports would celestial bodies play?
• Sep 16, 2015: The ups and downs of a small research project
• Oct 25, 2015: Water, water everywhere ... in the solar system
• Feb 6, 2016: A brief flare of excitement
• Mar 4, 2016: The not-so-local newscast
• Mar 12, 2016: Planet Nine from Outer Space
• Apr 10, 2016: Stars that go BOOM!
• Jun 13, 2016: Using star for astrometry and photometry
• Feb 17, 2017: The latest news on the planet around Proxima Centauri
• Jul 29, 2017: Opening a new door: looking for optical transients with the Tomo-e Gozen camera
• Aug 20, 2017: The Solar Eclipse of Aug 21, 2017 as I hope to see from Nashville, TN
• Feb 2, 2018: Discovery of the interstellar object P10Ee5V = C/2017 U1 = A/2017 U1 = `Oumuamua
• Apr 10, 2018: The rise and fall and rise of the extraterrestrial stock market
• May 3, 2019: The Event Horizon Telescope looks at gas around M87's black hole
• Apr 3, 2020: Cutting the Hubble constant down to size
• June 12, 2020: Astrometry is hard (and parallax is worse)
• June 18, 2020: The distance to Wolf 359 via parallax -- thanks to New Horizons
• Oct 2020: Three Mars missions launched in July
• Nov 6, 2020: How long would it take the Earth to fall into the Sun?
• Sep 10, 2021: The Mars Perseverance Rover mission
• Nov 6, 2021: How does the Perseverance Rover mission tell us about Mars?
• Dec 2, 2022: Using JWST images of Stephan's Quintet to determine the distance to NGC 7320 (or the holiday version )
• Feb 14, 2023: The long journey from raw image to calibrated light curve
• Sep 29, 2023: Useful online tools
• Nov 16, 2023: The Solar Eclipse of Apr 8, 2024 (RIT)
• Feb 03, 2024: The Solar Eclipse of Apr 8, 2024 (Hoag Public Library, Albion, NY)
• Feb 10, 2024: The Solar Eclipse of Apr 8, 2024 (Princeton Club of Rochester)
• Feb 29, 2024: The Solar Eclipse of Apr 8, 2024 (RIT Sentinel Society)
• Mar 1, 2024: A basic introduction to Stromgren spheres
• Mar 14, 2024: The Solar Eclipse of Apr 8, 2024 (JoCo Cruise)
• Mar 24, 2024: The Solar Eclipse of Apr 8, 2024 (Strasenburgh Planetarium)
• Apr 1, 2024: The Solar Eclipse of Apr 8, 2024 (RIT College of Science)
• Apr 5, 2024: The Solar Eclipse of Apr 8, 2024 (RIT Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences)
• Apr 6, 2024: How do astronomers find exoplanets? (Rochester Museum and Science Center, ROC the Eclipse Festival)
• Apr 6, 2024: The Solar Eclipse of Apr 8, 2024 (Genesee Country Village & Museum)