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Each week we’re going to try and moments in history, upcoming events, and different way you can engage in doing astronomy.

Anniversaries | Events | Looking Ahead

Looking back: Anniversaries

• Sir William Huggins Birthday: Born Feb. 7, 1824, Huggins was a preeminent British amateur astronomer. He built his own spectrometer and was the first person to take a spectrum of a planetary nebula. He also was the first to use spectrum to distinguish between nebulae and galaxies.

Upcoming Events for Febraury 4 – 11, 2012

• Public (Second Life) Lecture: Pluralism of Worlds, From Giordano
  Bruno to Stanley Kubrick, Part II by Giuseppe Longo (SL: Giulon Ragu)
  Time: Saturday 10am LA / 1pm NEW YORK / 6pm LONDON / 5am + 1d SYDNEY
  Location: Large Auditorium on StellaNova, Second Life
  Prof. Longo continues his discussion of cosmic pluralism, i.e. the
  existence of other civilizations in the universe, started in his talk
  of Dec. 11. (see all MICA events here)
• Astronomy Cast with Fraser Cain and Dr. Pamela L. Gay
  Time: Monday 12pm LA / 3pm NEW YORK/ 8pm LONDON / 5am + 1d SYDNEY
  AND BONUS EPISODE Thursday 12pm LA / 3pm NEW YORK/ 8pm LONDON / 5am + 1d SYDNEY
  Location: Google Hangouts on Air at CosmoQuest
  Take a facts-based journey through the cosmos with Fraser Cain and Dr. Pamela Gay. They’ll help you learn not only what we know but how we know it about the universe we live in.
• Weekly Astronomy Hour: Lecture, A brief history of Citizen Science in Astronomy by Pamela L. Gay
  Time: Wednesday 4pm PACIFIC / 7pm EASTERN / 0:00 + 1d GMT / 11am + 1d Sydney
  Location: Google Hangouts on Air at CosmoQuest
  Learn about how citizen scientists have helped shape our understanding of the universe through the centuries.
• Weekly Space Hangout hosted by Fraser Cain.
  Time: Thursday 10am PACIFIC / 1pm EASTERN / 6pm GMT / 5am +1 d SYDNEY
  Location: Google Hangouts on Air at CosmoQuest
  Join Fraser Cain along with some combination Alan Boyle,  Pamela Gay, Nicole Gugliucci, Emily Lakdawalla, Phil Plait, and Miles O’Brien for a round of this weeks Space News.

Save the Date!

• Palo Alto Meetup: Come talk astronomy and space science at the SETI Institute with team scientists and educators including Dr. Pamela L. Gay. RSVP on our Meetup Group
• Science & Engineering Festival, Washington, D.C.: Join us April 28-29 for the ultimate celebration of science and engineering. CosmoQuest will be part of the NASA display.
• International Observe the Moon Night:Scheduled for Sept 22, it’s none to soon to start planning your events. Learn more here.