About this Event
Movie night and popcorn with the San Francisco Amateur Astronomers! Wednesday, September 16, at the Randall Museum. Free to all. We will be playing a prevously recorded presentation by Dr. Robert Nemiroff, who has been moderating APOD since 1995. Thanks to the Randall museum for special permission to have popcorn in their theater. Thanks also to Night Sky Network for permission to play this presentation in public.
Dr. Robert Nemiroff is a rofessor of physics at Michigan Tech. He worked at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland before coming to Michigan Tech. He is perhaps best known scientifically for papers predicting, usually among others, several recovered microlensing phenomena, and papers showing, usually among others, that gamma-ray bursts were consistent with occurring at cosmological distances. He led a group that developed and deployed the first online fisheye night sky monitor, called CONCAMs, deploying later models to most major astronomical observatories. He has published as first author and refereed for every major journal in astronomy and astrophysics. His current research interests include trying to limit attributes of our universe with distant gamma-ray bursts and investigating the use of relativistic illumination fronts to orient astronomical nebulae.
Event venue & nearby stays
Randall Museum Theater, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco, United States
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