SAC SkyWatch 2024-25 Schedule

1.    SkyWatches on 2nd Fridays from Oct 2024 through March 2025.  The Fall and Spring Star Parties will be held on the 1st Friday of Sept and April, respectively; to avoid excessive moonlight.  The early start times for the star parties will allow for some solar observing before sunset. At most of the 2nd Friday SkyWatches at KWU, the Moon will be a prominent feature of the night sky.

2.    Light Refreshments and socializing to follow after the SkyWatch presentations in Rm 229, Peters Science Hall, KWU.  Also, on nights when we do NOT have an off-campus Star Party; attendees will have an opportunity to observe the night sky through the KWU Observatory telescope, weather-permitting.

 

Topic

Speaker

Date

Time

Fall Star Party/ Constellation IDing under the stars

NA

6-Sep-24

6 to 10:30 pm

Panspermia- Do the seeds of life exist all over the universe and if so, can they travel between places?

David Hanson

11-Oct-24

7:30 to 10 pm

Recurrent Nova (RNe) - History and Predictions

Jeffrey Kasoff

8-Nov-24

7:30 to 10 pm

Star of Bethlehem

Dorothy Hanna

13-Dec-24

7:30 to 10 pm

Lunar Colonization

Mark Ingelin

10-Jan-25

7:30 to 10 pm

Our Sun

Mary Lemon

14-Feb-25

7:30 to 10 pm

New Physics – Extreme Gravity

Suman Kundu

14-Mar-25

7:30 to 10 pm

Spring Star Party/ Constellation IDing under the stars

NA

4-Apr-25

6 to 10:30 pm


Date  

Sunrise 

Sunset

Moonrise  

Moonset 

Moonset next day

% Illuminated

Phase

6-Sep-24

0704

1952

1024

2125

 

13

Waxing Crescent

11-Oct-24

0737

1857

1556

 

0133

63

Waxing Gibbous

8-Nov-24

0706

1722

1331

2331

 

47

Waxing Crescent

13-Dec-24

0741

1709

1530

 

0710

97

Waxing Gibbous

10-Jan-25

0749

1728

1408

 

0603

90

Waxing Gibbous

14-Feb-25

0722

1807

2026

 

0849

94

Waning Gibbous

14-Mar-25

0743

1937

2016

 

0813

100

Full

4-Apr-25

0710

1957

1142

 

0336

50

1st Quarter

Times are local Central Time.  Sep, Oct, & Apr are CDT.   CST in the other months.

Note: Daylight Savings Time ends 3-Nov-2024 and starts 9-Mar-2025. 




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