Click on the links below to view our 2020 virtual general meeting recording.
December 2020 General Virtual Meeting
ASRAS December 4 2020 Virtual Meeting – YouTube
Featured Speaker was Kelly Douglass, Prof. Physics & Astronomy University of Rochester: “Mapping the Universe with DESI”
Click on the following link to view the November meeting recording:
November: Short Talk- Michael Richmond – “How long would it take for earth to fall directly onto the sun”,
Feature talk- Larry McHenry – “ The Herschels and their catalog”
November 2020 General Virtual Meeting
ASRAS November 6 2020 Virtual Meeting – YouTube
Click on the following link to view the October 2020 general meeting presentation.
Featured talk was by Scott J. Kenyon, Astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, titled “Pluto Strikes Back!”
October 2020 General Virtual Meeting
ASRAS October 2 2020 Virtual Meeting – YouTube
Click on the following link to view the September General Meeting Video.
September 2020 General Virtual Meeting
ASRAS September 11 2020 Virtual Meeting – YouTube
Feature Talk by John L. Callas PhD ” The Robotic Exploration of Mars”
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August 2020 General Virtual Meeting
ASRAS August 7 2020 Virtual Meeting – YouTube
Feature Speaker Matthew East, Lead Opto-Mechanical Engineer, Space Structures, L3Harris Technologies: “Future NASA Flagship Missions”
July 2020 Joint ASRAS-RAS Meeting
ASRAS RAS joint July Virtual Meeting July 17 2020 Fellow Induction RAS Elections
ASRAS RAS joint July Virtual Meeting July 17 2020 – YouTube
June 2020 General Virtual Meeting
ASRAS June 5 2020 Virtual Meeting – YouTube
ASRAS June 5 2020 Virtual Meeting Feature Speaker David Bishop, “Astronomy Year in Review”
May 2020 General Virtual Meeting
ASRAS May 1 2020 Virtual Meeting – YouTube
ASRAS May 1 2020 Virtual Meeting Feature Speaker Richard O’Shaughnessy, Theoretical Gravitational Wave Astrophysicist, RIT: “gravitational Waves – Pt. III
April 2020 General Virtual Meeting
ASRAS April 3 2020 Virtual Meeting – YouTube
ASRAS April 3 2020 Virtual Meeting Feature Speaker Michael Richmond Prof Physics & Astronomy RIT “Cutting the Hubble Constant Down to Size”
March 2020 General Meeting
2020-03-06 Mtg Imaging Radio Telescope on Vimeo
Short talk: Coronavirus update. Main talk: Victoria Butler -Imaging radio telescope at Kitt Peak. This was our last In-Person meeting for 2020 due to the Covid 19.
February 2020 General Meeting
January 2020 General Meeting
2020-01-03 Mtg Kodak Reconnaissance Projects on Vimeo
Steve Fentress – Use of the Observer’s Handbook. Main talk: John Schafer – Large Optics Engineering and Metrology for Kodak’s Reconnaissance Projects.