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Observing Asterisms
Join the Ventura County Astronomical Society for an evening under the stars at Paramount Ranch. We will be hosting our first star party of 2026.
We are proud to have Professor Heather A. Knutson,
Professor of Planetary Science in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at the California Institute of Technology.
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“Mount Wilson Observatory: The Real Magic Mountain”
Join us for our monthly general meeting at the Hillcrest Center for Arts, 403 W. Hillcrest Dr, Thousand Oaks. Our guest speaker will be Sarah Elizabeth McCandless, Navigation Engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, FREE & OPEN to the Public. Tonight's topic is on the Near Earth Object Surveyor mission
Join us for our monthly general meeting at the Hillcrest Center for Arts, 403 W. Hillcrest Dr, Thousand Oaks. Our guest speaker is Dr. Caleb Baker with a presentation on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope . On board the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a NASA astrophysics observatory mission set to launch late in 2026, is a complex instrument dedicated to directly observing exoplanets orbiting distant stars. This instrument, called a coronagraph, specializes in nullifying starlight by factors of up to 1-to-1 billion to give astronomers a fighting chance at seeing the faint light of nearby planets. Please join me as I walk through the design, function, and a few fun stories from the instrument's assembly and test at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. FREE & OPEN to the Public.