LONGMONT, Colo. – Front Range Community College will have a public stargazing from 8:00 to 9:00 p.m. Tuesday, September 10, and Wednesday, September 25. A nearly full moon should be visible on September 10 (weather permitting). The observatory is in the courtyard of the Classroom Building of the Boulder County Campus, 2121 Miller Drive, Longmont. […]
Front Range Community College will host a public stargazing event from 7:30 to 9 p.m. on Tuesday, October 9, and Thursday, October 25 at its campus in Longmont. The observatory is in the courtyard of the Classroom Building of the Boulder County Campus, 2121 Miller Drive, Longmont. Amateur astronomers are invited to bring their own […]
Front Range Community College will have a public stargazing from 8 to 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, September 12, and Monday, September 24. The observatory is in the courtyard of the Classroom Building of the Boulder County Campus, 2121 Miller Drive, Longmont. Amateur astronomers are invited to bring their own telescopes to set up in the courtyard. […]
The observatory at Front Range Community College’s Westminster Campus will be open for public stargazing from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 21. The observatory is on the east end of the campus, 3645 W. 112th Ave. The observatory’s 15-foot dome houses a 14-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope. Astronomy faculty and students in the Astronomy Club, organizers […]
“Comets are like cats. They do precisely what they want” –David Levy, Astronomer Sometimes, being an astronomer is a lot like being a weather forecaster. I would love to predict astronomical events with 100 percent certainty. However, experience has taught me to hedge my predictions with a healthy dose of skepticism. Halley’s Comet Was Hazardous […]
Alexei Leonov is the Russian cosmonaut who was the first person to ever “spacewalk.” It was March 18, 1965. Going to space in 1965 meant climbing into a teensy-weensy capsule (about the size of a small car) perched over 90,000 pounds of explosive rocket fuel and hoping for the best as the countdown reached zero […]
This is the time of year when we are awarded a few spring-like days that remind us that the Vernal Equinox is near and summer is not far behind. Warm Sun, Cold Air. When I was little, my mom would make me wear a coat on brisk, early spring mornings. When I protested, she would […]
Every four years, we have a U.S. presidential election. In that same year, we also have a Summer Olympics. Not coincidentally, that year also is a leap year, a year with 366 days rather than 365. Why is this? Can’t we make a better calendar? To understand why we need leap years, we must first […]
