Mar-17	Charlotte Mason is a PhD candidate in Astrophysics at UCLA, Title of her talk"Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn". The Hubble Space Telescope has enabled us to observe galaxies in the early universe, just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. She describes how we are pushing Hubble to its limits, using gravitational lensing to magnify these distant faint galaxies, and how the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope will reveal even more about the first galaxies.
Feb-17	Michael Malaska from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.. The title of Michael’s talk is: “Titan: an Earthlike world in the Outer Solar System.
Jan-17	Joshua Garber, Department of Earth Science at UC Santa Barbara. The title of Joshua’s talk is “Earth in Context: A Uniquely Favorable Planet for Life.”
Dec-16	Members Night, Jerry Wilson, our current Vice President, will speak about the upcoming total solar eclipse, Our second speaker will be our Outreach Coordinator, Chuck McPartlin, who summarizes his talk: “There's a relatively nearby black hole (V404Cygni) that is sucking matter from a companion star.
Nov-16	Keri Bean from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA’s ambitious Dawn mission to the asteroids Vesta and Ceres
Oct-16	Omer Blaes from the UCSB Physics Department. His talk is titled “Dwarf to Super Novae
Sep-16	Chuck McPartlin who will speak about his passion for timing asteroid occultations
Aug-16	Todd Boroson from the Las Cumbres Observatory talk on this global network of telescopes.
Jul-16	Stephen J. Edberg, Pluto?
Jun-16	SBAU Potluck 6pm, Speaker 730pm or Planetarium show?
May-16	Karl Blasius, retired JPL, Mars latest & Rover mission; May 9 Mercury transit of Sun; Astronomy Day, Camino Real Marketplace; RTMC
Apr-16	Sarah Greenstreet, talk is titled “Pluto and Beyond.”
Mar-16	James Hartle, talk about Quantum Cosmology
Feb-16	Rachel Street, LCOGT, Exo-planet lensing
Jan-16	Sean Kelly, SBCC & member, Comets
Dec-15	Members’ Night Art Harris telescope, McPartlin, occultations; Richard; Wilson; elections --Holiday Party Mulligans
Nov-15	Ruth Murray-Clay, UCSB, Brown Dwarfs; Campout, Cachuma
Oct-15	Paul Winn, Astro Landscapes
Sep-15	Andrew Norton, Thirty Meter Telescope, adaptive optics; SBMNH Astrovaganza
Aug-15	Stephen J. Edberg, Pluto?
Jul-15	David Gross, Quantum Chromo Dynamics
Jun-15	SBAU Potluck, old movie (only 5 attended)
May-15	1st Joe Tufts-LCOGT telescopes; 14th Sedgwick honor Dark Sky folk: SaveOurStars, ChuckMcP, LCOGT, RTMC
Apr-15	Diana Dragomir, UCSB, Exoplanets; 4th: Total Lunar Eclipse; 24th SBMNH, Fleischmann, Exoplanets, Rachel Street, +ZoeR (intro by TomT); 25th: Astronomy Day, Camino Real Marketpl
Mar-15	Jerry Clifford, CSUCI, the Sun; Messier Marathon, gun club;
Feb-15	Harry Nelson, UCSB, Dark Matter Experiments
Jan-15	Theo Clarke, NASA/JPL, Juno Mission
Dec-14	Philip Lubin, UCSB, Planetary Defense; new officers, --Holiday Party, Mulligans
Nov-14	Laura Tenenbaum, JPL, Climate Science NASA missions;
Oct-14	Elijah Quetin, SBCC, UCSB, Antikythera Mechanism; Lunar eclipse, Westmont; Solar Eclipse, Camino/westmont; SBAU campout Mohawk campground, Cachuma;
Sep-14	Iair Arcavi, LCOGT, Supernovas;
Aug-14	Members Night, AdrianLopez, ChrisLarson, JerryWilson; Astrovaganza, SBMNH; California Science Museum, Space Shuttle Endeavour;
Jul-14	David Feinberg, meteorites;
Jun-14	SBAU potluck
May-14	George Carlisle, JPL, History of manned space exploration; Astronomy Day, Camino Real Marketplace; RTMC
Apr-14	David Yale, Gravity B mission;
Mar-14	Prof. Puig Suari, CalPoly, Picosat/Cubesat;
Feb-14	Andrew Norton, Adaptive Optics;
Jan-14	Prof. Ben Mazin, UCSB, MKID, quantum detectors; Hotel Indigo, Vastness is Bearable;
Dec-13	Members’ Night McPartlin, occultations; Wilson; Richard; along with the elections of our club officers. --Holiday Party Beachside
Nov-13	Peter Meinhold, UCSB, Cosmic Microwave Background;
Oct-13	Dr. Laurance Doyle, Drake equation, SETI comm w/ aliens;
Sep-13	Paul Winn, SBAU member, astrophotography; SBAU campout Mohawk campground, Cachuma;
Aug-13	2013 Astro Day Saturday, August xx, 2013 Museum of Natural History. --August 28, field trip tour of JPL, Los Angeles Science Exposition Park, Space Shuttle Endeavour.
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Jun-13	SBAU Potluck
May-13	Jane Houston Jones, JPL Nasa Saturn Cassini mission review --Annual RTMC Astronomy Expo at Big Bear Lake
Apr-13	Elijah Quetin, UCSB Physics, "Music of the Spheres, linking music and astronomy" --Astronomy Day, Camino Real Marketplace
Mar-13	Dr. Steve Hodges, Navigating to Hawaii using the Stars
Feb-13	Dr. Jerry Wilson, SBAU member, Australia Total Eclipse and other eclipses and Telescopes used.
Jan-13	Ferenc Pavlics "The Development of the Apollo Lunar Rover". -Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History "Legacy Award" to SBAU Patron Dinner January 17, 2013
Dec-12	Members’ Night along with the elections of our club officers. --Holiday Party Beachside
Nov-12	Dr. Gary Horowitz from UCSB’s Physics Department. “Mysteries of Space and Time.” Gary’s research focuses on questions involving gravity under the most extreme conditions.
Oct-12	Jordan Evans, Engineering Development and Op Manager, Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover project NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. -Carpinteria Avocado Festival Star Party Sat, October 6th
Sep-12	UCSB grad student Kevin Moore works with Lars Bildsten astrophysics novae stellar environments, detonations in helium layers, asteroseismology. -SBAU Campout Mohawk Shores Cachuma Lake September 14th. -Griffith Observatory Wed, Sept. 19th
Aug-12	2012 ASTRO-VAGANZA! Saturday, August 11, 2012 Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. --Chuck McPartlin, Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) 2012 Las Cumbres Award, Tucson, Arizona on August 7th.
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Jun-12	TUESDAY, JUNE 5, Solar scopes Transit of Venus, Camino Real, next is 105 years. --SBAU Potluck
May-12	Michael Johnson, “Pulsars: Precision Tools in an Astrophysical Laboratory.” -Deep Partial Eclipse, Sunday, Camino Real 5/20/12. -Annual RTMC Astronomy Expo at Big Bear Lake
Apr-12	Federica B. Bianco “light echoes of Eta Carinae" UCSB postdoc, LCOGT Network -Santa Ynez Valley Astronomy Night, Los Olivos School, Saturday, April 21 -APRIL 28, 10-10PM International Astronomy Day at Camino Real Marketplace.
Mar-12	John Martinez of LCOGT (Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network) --MARCH 24, ALL NIGHT Messier Marathon at the Shotgun range of the Gun Club
Feb-12	"Movie Night" BBC film on “extreme astronomy,” highlighting some of Earth’s finest observatories!
Jan-12	Howard Royster Alt-Alt tracking objects, based on video cameras and pattern recognition software and large mobile telescope
Dec-11	Members’ Night along with the elections of our club officers. --Holiday Party Beachside
Nov-11	Dr. Robert Piccioni whose topic is “Einstein for Everyone.” --NOVEMBER 11, Archaeoastronomy, Farrand Hall at SBMNH: "The Power of Stars"
Oct-11	Scott Roberts of Explore Scientific. designing fine eyepieces and telescopes. -Fall Astronomy Day Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History on October 1st -“International Observe The Moon Night” October 8th
Sep-11	Dr. Lars Bildsten, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB, exploding stars. -Annual AU campout at the Mohawk Shores group campsite at Cachuma Lake -Pacific Astronomy and Telescope Show (PATS) September 17-18 at the Pasadena Convention Center
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Jul-11	Summer Star Party, at Gun Club Saturday, July 23rd;
Jun-11	SBAU wins Best Astronomy Club "Out of this World" prize from Astronomy Magazine (probaby notified Ruben in March or April) --SBAU Potluck
May-11	Stefania Tutino, Professor, Dept of History UCSB. “Galileo and the Catholic Church: Science and Religion in Context.” -May 7 is our big day, International Astronomy Day -Annual RTMC Astronomy Expo at Big Bear Lake
Apr-11	Dr. Gregory Dobler, astrophysicist Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UCSB “A Light in the Dark: the Pursuit of the Nature of Dark Matter.” -APRIL 2, AU Messier Marathon, Shotgun Range, Gun Club -AU-featured display SB Public Library
Mar-11	Dr. Jerry Wilson, will speak about his experience in astrophotography and imageprocessing. -Volunteer Luncheon in Fleischmann, SBMNH, Saturday, March 26 -MARCH 26, Tour Sedgwick Reserve LCOGT telescope
Feb-11	Dr. Tomasso Treu from UCSB’s Physics galactic evolution.
Jan-11	Dr. van der Veen, UCSB, AlloSphere Virtual Reality to teach cosmology of Planck Mission
Dec-10	Members’ Night along with the elections of our club officers. --Holiday Party Beachside
Nov-10	Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope short meeting, followed by a tour. November 6, AU invited to Sedgwick Reserve, Santa Ynez Valley LCOGT 0.8m (32”) telescope.
Oct-10	Chuck McPartlin, outreach coordinator, "Planets Beyond Neptune." -CALSTAR at Lake San Antonio. --Avocado Festival in Carpinteria on Saturday, 10/2
Sep-10	Wayne Rosing, telescope mirrors, chief technical advisor Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope. --Sept 17, Annual AU campout, Mohawk Shores group campsite at Cachuma & Lake International Observe the Moon Night
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Jul-10	July 17, Telescopes campers Lopez Lake. --July 31, Star-B-Q Gun Club
Jun-10	SBAU Potluck
May-10	Dr. Rus Belikov “Searching for Other Earths.” astrophysicist, NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, Ca. -Annual RTMC Astronomy Expo at Big Bear Lake
Apr-10	Dr. Vardha Nicola Bennert “The Co-evolution of Black Holes and Their Host Galaxies.” ---International Astronomy Day, Saturday, April 24, 2010
Mar-10	Dr. Andy Howell, LCOGT/UCSB, Dark Energy --March 20, Saturday, Messier Marathon at the Gun Club
Feb-10	"The Science and Technology of the James Webb Space Telescope", Dr. Till Liepmann
Jan-10	Members' Night presentations, including a planetarium show by Javier, and astronomy rap
Dec-09	Dr. Tom Farr, NASA/JPL, Cassini and Mars missions. --Holiday Party Beachside
Nov-09	Dr. Paul Norton, a specialist in infrared and night-vision detectors, “Detector Arrays”. --Astronomer Dr. Mike Brown at SBMNH, "How I killed Pluto". --Nov 12, Galileo Show in Fleischmann Auditorium.
Oct-09	Chuck McPartlin, “Solar Systems, Here and There.” --Oct 3, "Guacamoon and Jupiter Too" Avocado Festival
Sep-09	Craig Prater, former officer of the AU "Around the World in Search of Total Solar Eclipses." --Sept 17, Annual CALSTAR star party at Lake San Antonio. --Sept25, AU campout and Starbecue
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Jun-09	SBAU Potluck
May-09	AU member and now NASA scientist Dr. Rus Belikov, "Searching for Other Earths". --May 2 Astronomy Day, SBMNH. --May17 Space Music Concert, SBMNH. --Annual RTMC Astronomy Expo at Big Bear Lake
Apr-09	--"100 Hours of Astronomy" April 2:State St. 3:SBMNH w/UCSB professor Patrick McCray; “Amateur Astronomers and the Dawn of the Space Age” 4-5:Paseo Nuevo Mall+star party.
Mar-09	UCSB professor, Omer Blaes, whose talk is titled “Singing Black Holes.” --March 7th, the Astronomical Unit traveled to Griffith Observatory.
Feb-09	Bob Richard, "My Astrophotography Journey: A Work in Progress."
Jan-09	balloonist Julian Nott NASA, testing designs balloon missions to Saturn's moon Titan.
Dec-08	Members’ Night. --Holiday Party Beachside
Nov-08	NOVA video our galaxy’s black hole, “The Monster in the Milky Way.”
Oct-08	Dr. Paul Norton, a local retired scientist, "detector arrays". --Oct 25, William (Chad) Caprio, October Messier Marathon! Winchester Gun Club
Sep-08	John Boyd, SBAU member, Solar Observing. --CALSTAR star party at Lake San Antonio. --Sept 19, AU campout and Starbecue, Cachuma Lake. --PATS
Aug-08	August 9, Goodbye for Krissie Cook McVeagh House at SBMNH
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Jun-08	SBAU Potluck
May-08	Dr. Stuart Taylor about extrasolar planets --May 10, Astronomy Day SBMNH. May 22, Telescopes for the lecture at SBMNH, Dr. Andrea Ghez “ Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy” w/ LCOGT sponsor
Apr-08	W. Patrick McCray, UCSB history professor, on “Amateur Astronomers, Sputnik, and the Dawn of the Space Age.” April 6-13 National Dark Sky week. --April 5 Messier Marathon, gun club
Mar-08	Jerry Wilson "Physics of Detectors for Imaging Systems" --March 29, Lights Out America.
Feb-08	AU member Bob Piatek of Fishcamp Engineering, "Starfish camera", adventures installing cameras at Cerro Tololo Observatory in the Andes.
Jan-08	AU member John Martinez Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope, and 33" telescope installing Sedgwick Reserve
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Nov-07	AU member Joe Doyle will show us how to build a Dobsonian telescope
Oct-07	Tim Ferris’ latest documentary, “Seeing in the Dark.” connection between amateur and professional astronomy. -Great World Wide Star Count --Oct 11, CalStar
Sep-07	AU member Paul Winn, his amazing adventures in astrophotography! -Sept 14, AU Campout.
Aug-07	--August 28th Total Lunar Eclipse
Jul-07	-JULY 7, Annual AU Starbecue at the Gun Club. -JULY 11, rescheduled Griffith Obs trip. -July 20, Harry Potter book event Camino Real Marketplace.
Jun-07	SBAU Potluck
May-07	Javier “El Magnifico” Rivera, "how we measure astronomical distances". -May 17, Telescopes for former SBAC member Dr.Alex Filippenko's talk at Fleischmann Auditorium at SBMNH. -May 26, RTMC Astronomy Expo
Apr-07	Krissie Cook, our distinguished speaker. -April 21, Astronomy Day.
Mar-07	Dr. Joann Eisberg, tells us about New Zealand astronomer Beatrice Tinsley contributions to Cosmology. -March 17, Annual AU Messier Marathon at the Gun Club
Feb-07	Tom Whittemore and Tim Crawford tell us about mirror grinding, polishing, and testing.
Jan-07	video of Huell Howser’s visit to the newly reopened Griffith Observatory with Dr. Ed Krup.
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Nov-06	club member, Craig Prater's trip to total solar eclipse 2006 Sahara Desert in Libya (Dale Lowdermilk, M&J Johnson photos)!
Oct-06	Nancy Vandermey from JPL will talk about the Cassini mission to Saturn. -Oct 21, AU Campout.
Sep-06	Dr. Ashley Stroupe, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Staff Engineer, multi robot teams in complex environments. Sept 21, CalStar.
Aug-06	AU’s 3rd Annual Star-B-Que at 6PM on Saturday, August 26.
Jul-06	July 28, JPL Trip!
Jun-06	June 2 Annual AU Potluck
May-06	Mr. Julian Nott, a balloonist, history and applications. -May 6, Astronomy Day at SBMNH. -May24, Telescopes for exoplanet lecture at SBMNH. -May 26, RTMC Astronomy Expo at Camp Oakes in Big Bear!
Apr-06	Michael McEachen will speak about his work on a solar sail project. -April 13, Lecture on Black Holes in Fleischmann Auditorium at SBMNH by Dr. Omer Blaes of UCSB. '-April SBAU display downtown branch Santa Barbara Library by Chuck and Dale.
Mar-06	AstroMan: Krissie Cook, will tell us all about what's going on with astronomy at the Museum. -March 25, AU Messier Marathon at the Gun Club.
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Jan-06	AU member Craig Prater story of cruise to the South Pacific to view the total solar eclipse in 2005.