–Skymaps.com – Donation-supported maps of the night sky for each month
–Stellarium – Donation-supported, open-source night sky simulator
–Clear Sky Chart – Weather predictions of stargazing conditions
Public Outreach
Boise State Physics
First Friday Astronomy
Friday, Mar 5th at 7:30p MT
Psyche: Journey to a Metallic World
Prof. Lindy Elkins-Tanton,
School Of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State Univ.
Online lecture begins 7:30pm MT
http://www.astrojack.com/ffa-psyche
Join Boise State Physics on the Third Thursday of each month at 7:30p MT for a virtual planetarium show. This month’s show will take place on Jan 21. If you’d like to join us, please sign up at http://boi.st/thirdthursday.
Resources for this month’s show:
–http://stellarium.org/ – Stellarium is donation-supported, so please contribute if you can.
–Skymaps.com – Donation-supported, monthly maps of the night sky
–Turn Left at Orion – Excellent guidebook for stargazing
-Great Conjunctions wikipedia article
-xkcd’s JWST launch date plot
-Netflix’s “Alien Worlds“
–Jupiter’s hexagon
–Exoplanet spectroscopy
–What’s Up Doc
Boise State Physics
First Friday Astronomy
Friday, Dec 4th
NASA’s Lucy Mission: 1 Spacecraft, 7 Trojan Asteroids, 12 years
Dr. Cathy Olkin
Southwest Research Institute
Online lecture begins 7:30pm MT
http://www.astrojack.com/ffa-lucy-mission/
Donate at give.boisestate.edu/astronomy.
Boise State Physics
First Friday Astronomy
Friday, Nov 6th
A Practical Guide to Time Travel
Prof. Barbara Ryden
Dept. of Astronomy
The Ohio State University
Online lecture begins 7:30pm MT
http://www.astrojack.com/ffa-time-travel
Donate at give.boisestate.edu/astronomy.
Boise State Physics
First Friday Astronomy
Friday, Oct 2nd
The Solar System Laboratory:
A Testbed for Exoplanet Studies
Dr. Laura Mayorga
Space Telescope Science Institute
Online lecture begins 7:30pm MT
http://www.astrojack.com/ffa-solar-system-lab
Donate at give.boisestate.edu/astronomy.
Boise State Physics
First Friday Astronomy
Friday, Sep 4th
Peering Through the Haze: Titan’s Fascinating Atmosphere and Surface
Prof. Darci Snowden
Dept. of Physics
Central Washington Univ.
Online lecture begins 7:30pm MT
http://www.astrojack.com/ffa-titan-haze
Donate at give.boisestate.edu/astronomy.