Yampa Valley Astronomy Club Presentation

02/17/2009 6:30 pm

 

The Yampa Valley Astronomy Club, in conjunction with Professor Jimmy Westlake of Colorado Mountain College and the CMC Sky Club, will host a special lecture on Tues evening, 17 February, 2009, at 6:30 pm by Dr. Robert Ball.   The topic is "Solar Eclipses and the Siberian Experience".  The lecture will discuss the process of solar eclipses and why they are a rare event in most everyone's experience.  He will then discuss information and present images from the solar eclipse of 1 Aug, 2008 from Novosibirsk (Siberia), Russia.

The lecture will be presented in Bogue Hall, 3rd floor meeting room, at CMC.  All community residents are invited. Contact me, Scott Price, at 276-2162 or sprice@amigo.net .