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Saturday, Oct 1st |
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10:00 am - 4:00 pm
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Denver Astronomical Society: Solar
Viewing –
Outside of the West Atrium,
(Weather Permitting)
Visitors will have the opportunity
to safely view the sun through a wide
variety of telescopes provided by the
members of the Denver Astronomical
Society. Includes white light, hydrogen
alpha, and calcium wavelengths. Solar
Spectrograph.
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10:00 am - 4:00 pm |
DAS
Information Table -
Space Odyssey
Learn about
astronomy, observing opportunities, and
educational opportunities in Colorado.
Attended by Denver Astronomical Society
Members. |
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10:00 am - 4:00 pm
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CSM
Lunabotics –
West
Atrium
The Colorado
School of Mines will display several
student built lunar regolith robotic
excavation rovers. Included is the
Mile-High Miners excavator, the CSM
entry in the 2011 NASA Lunabotic
competition.
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10:30 am
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Art
Station Titan –
Galaxy
Stage
Learn
how to draw a scientific illustration
while learning about the unique
conditions on Saturn’s moon Titan.
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11:15 am
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Exploring the Cosmos from the
Moon –
Galaxy Stage
Matt Benjamin, Education Manager from
Boulder's Fiske Planetarium will give a
presentation on using the moon as a
platform to explore the universe. |
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11:30
am
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Astronaut
on Mars, Mars Outpost –
Mars
Diorama
Step up to the
window of a diorama and look at Candor
Chasma on Mars. Watch an “astronaut”
conduct research, and ask questions via
walkie-talkie to find out about living
in space. Stop at the Experiment Bar to
make discoveries about Mars. |
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12:00 pm
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Robots and
Humans –
Space Screen
Retired NASA
Astronaut Bruce McCandless II will give
a presentation about the use of robots
in space exploration. |
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12:30 pm
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Cruisin’ the Cosmos –
Gates
Planetarium,
Sit
back, relax, and soak in the planetarium
experience? Not in this program. This is
a planetarium show like you’ve never
been to. Ask a question, and have the
entire planetarium dome filled with your
answer. It’s as if you and your fellow
audience members get to control the
show… because you do. |
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12:45
pm
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Denver
Astronomical Society: Binoculars your
first best telescope
– Galaxy
Stage
Norm Rosling of
the Denver Astronomical Society will
talk about using binoculars to observe
the moon and other objects. |
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1:15 pm
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Galileo
and the Leaning Tower of Pizza –
Space Odyssey
Watch “Galileo”
re-enact his famous leaning tower of
pizza experiment. Or was that Pisa? This
cross between watching a street
performer and going to the circus
teaches that a true scientist must
always match his or her theory to actual
scientific experiments. |
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2:00 pm
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Denver
Astronomical Society: Geology of the
Moon – Galaxy
Stage
Neil Pearson of
the Denver Astronomical Society will
talk about Lunar geology. |
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2:20 pm
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Apollo 11
Capsule Comunicator –
Space Screen
Retired NASA
Astronaut Bruce McCandless II will give
a presentation about his involvement in
the Apollo 11 mission to the moon as one
of the CapComs (The astronauts who acted
as communication link between the ground
control and the spacecraft). |
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3:15 pm
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See the
Seas – Science on
a Sphere
Join a Museum
Educator on an exploration of the
Earth’s Oceans and how they have changed
over time. |
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3:45 pm
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Denver
Astronomical Society: Meteorites –
Galaxy Stage
Ron Hranac of the
Denver Astronomical Society will give a
presentation about Meteorite collecting. |
