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2025 Meeting Journal

January 8 GM Ron Yelton on part III of his series on processing astro images.
January 20 CIG Professor Charles Hunt on cosmology in the 21st Century.
January 28 TIG Sunset at 17:22.  Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn prominent.



February 5 GM Raj K. Dixit on deep space objects visible during the winter season.
February 37 CIG John Goeschl on a unique extended square-wave protocol, using the short-lived isotope tracer 11CO2.
February 9 TIG Sunset at 17:56.  Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter prominent.



March 5
GM Raj K. Dixit on the history and function of astronomical telescopes.
March 17 CIG
Professor Charles Hunt on how the universe can expand faster than light speed.
March 28 TIG Sunset at 19:25.  Mars and Jupiter prominent.



April 2 GM Ron Yelton on the insane engineering of James Webb Telescope and the most extraordinary things it has seen so far.
April 21
CIG Professor Alexei Filippenko on black holes.
April 27
TIG Sunset at 19:53.  Mars and Jupiter will be prominent.



May 7
GM Richard Sandler on the rocket engines that made space exploration possible.
May 20
CIG
May 26
TIG Sunset at 20:19.  Mars and Jupiter will be prominent.



June 4
GM Raj Dixit, on the "Best Deep Space Objects of Summer."
June 16 CIG Professor Alexei Filippenko on the monster of the Milky Way - feasting supermassive black holes.
June 24 TIG Sunset at 20:33.  Mars will be prominent.



July GM No activity scheduled.
July CIG No activity scheduled.
July TIG No activity scheduled.



August 6 GM Ron Yelton on post processing NGC 3293, an open cluster in the constellation Carina, nicknamed the Gem Cluster.
August 18 CIG Professor Alexei Filippenko on gravitational waves - Ripples in Space-Time.
August  TIG No activity scheduled.



September 3 GM Dr. Charles Hunt on the properties of light.  What is the wave/particle duality and which is it? Or is it both?
September 15 CIG Professor Alexei Filippenko on shortcuts though the universe and beyond.
September 21 TIG Sunset at 19:03.  Saturn will be prominent.



October 1 GM Raj Dixit, on the "Best Deep Space Objects of Fall."
October 20 CIG Professor Alexei Filippenko on "Black Holes and the Holographic Universe".
October 21 TIG Sunset at 18:18.  Saturn will be prominent



November 5 GM Anthony Oreglia on our solar system in an overview of the 32 missions launched since 2020.
November 18 CIG
November 19 TIG Sunset at 16:49.  Jupiter, and Saturn are prominent.



December  GM  No activity scheduled.
December CIG  No activity scheduled.
December TIG  No activity scheduled.