List of past speakers 2000 - present

This list is a work in progress. Some changes may be made and dates added as they become available.

2023

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/14/2022	Members Night	Joseph Rothchild: A Quest for Southern Skies My Trip to Chile During a Pandemic Kai Cai: The Clay Center Observatory Corey Mooney: Example 3D printed ATM projects

2022

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/14/2022	Dr. Matthew East	Exquisite Stability for Large Space Telescopes	February 2022
2/10/2022	Dr. Sara Seager	Venus as a Potentially Habitable Planet	March 2022
3/10/2022	John W. Briggs	An Antarctic Odyssey: Winter-Over at South Pole Station	April 2022
4/14/2022	Mary McIntyre	Astronomy Sketching Workshop	May 2022
5/12/2022	Dr. Mario Motta	Final Report on UN Efforts on Light Pollution	June 2022
6/9/2022	Phil Levine	Sir Fred Hoyle – Some Perspectives	July 2022
7/14/2022	Member Night	Christine Zacharer: An Overview of Amateur Rocketry Tom Consi: Exploring the Universe in the Frequency Domain	September 2022
9/8/2022	Dr. Carrie Nugent	Near-Earth Asteroids (or, Why Dinosaurs Should Have Learned Physics)	October 2022
10/13/2022	Glen Cole	We Touched Infinity: How We Built the JWST, The World's Greatest Telescope!	November 2022
11/10/2022	Kelly Beatty	Stonehenge: An Epic Enigma	December 2022
12/8/2022		LLAMAS - 2,400 Little Eyes for One Big Telescope	January 2023

2021

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/14/2021	Dave Eicher	Galaxies	February 2021
2/11/2021	Tom Calderwood	A Romp with Betelgeuse	March 2021
3/11/2021	Andrew Chaikin	A Man on the Moon	April 2021
4/8/2021	Rachel Freed	Astronomy From Passion to Profession	May 2021
5/13/2021	David Levy	A Nightwatchman's Journey: The Road Not Taken	June 2021
6/10/2021	Geoff Chester	Sky and Ocean Joined: A Brief History of the U.S. Naval Observatory	July 2021
7/8/2021	Member Night	Kelly Beatty: The Sky and Telescope "Flight into Annularity" Mario Motta and Bernie Volz: Planning for Future Eclipse Trips Mark Helton: Recent Adventures with Astrophotography	September 2021
9/9/2021	Richard Nugent	How to Observe and Record Occultations	October 2021
10/14/2021	Dr. Mahboubeh Asgari-Targhi	Here Comes the Sun	November 2021
11/11/2021	Michael Ulbricht	Time Keeping at LADD Observatory	December 2021
12/9/2021	Dr. Arne Henden	Science with the Mittelman-ATMoB Observatory (MAO)	January 2022

2020

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/9/2020	Member Talks	Sal LaRiccia - ATMoB Club photo history project Glenn Chaple - Astronomical League's Variable Star Observing Program	February 2020
2/13/2020	Dr. Roseanne Di Stefano	New Models for the Progenitors of Type Ia Supernova and Gravitational Mergers	March 2020
3/10/2020	canceled due to Covid
4/13/2020	Glenn Chaple	Monthly Observer's Challenge Astronomical League's (AL) Variable Star observing program	May 2020
5/14/2020	Dr. Jenna Samra	High-Altitude Instrumentation for Infrared Observations of the Solar Corona	June 2020
6/11/2020	Alan Sliski	Design and Construction of an Automated Observatory	July 2020
7/9/2020	Member Night	Rich Nugent - Daytime Astronomical Observing Mario Motta - Galaxies of Spring Kelly Beatty - An Aurora Adventure in Iceland James Chamberlain - Australian Observatories Tour	September 2020
9/10/2020	Robert Naeye	Finding Life on Other Worlds	October 2020
10/8/2020	W. Lowell Putnam	The Naval Precision Optical Interferometer	November 2020
11/12/2020	Dr. Ana Bonaca	Star Streams in the Milky Way Galaxy	December 2020
12/10/2020	Dr. Diana Hannikainen	The Radio Sky: Exploring the Universe at the Longest Wavelengths	January 2021

2019

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/10/2019	Kelly Blumenthal	Galaxies: From Observations to Simulations	February 2019
2/14/2019	Camille Carlisle	Black Holes	March 2019
3/14/2019	Hugh Blair-Smith	"Left Brains for the Right Stuff: Computers, Space, and History	April 2019
4/11/2019	Calvin Leung	Testing Quantum Mechanics with Cosmic Photons on the Canary Islands	May 2019
5/9/2019	Dr. George R. Ricker	Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Update	June 2019
6/13/2019	Kelly Beatty	Library Telescope Program and Stonehenge	July 2019
7/11/2019	ATMoB member night	Member presentations Alan Sliski - Eclipse Expedition to CTIO in Chile Cory Mooney - OnStep: GoTo Mount Conversion George Roberts - Bath Interferometer Rich Nugent - Lunar Observing: Revisting an Old Friend	September 2019
9/12/2019	Al Takeda	Deep Sky Imaging using a DSLR	October 2019
10/12/2019	Dr. Peter Vereš	Current State of the Planetary Defense	November 2019
11/14/2019	Dr. JJ Hermes	When the referee lets you name your stars	December 2019
12/12/2019	Babak Tafreshi	A Thousand Nights Under Stars	January 2020

2018

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/11/2018	Richard Nugent	"Observing Satellites"	February 2018
2/8/2018	Kevin Collins	"Journey Into Totality"	March 2018
3/8/2018	Andrew Chael	"Imaging a Black Hole with the Event Horizon Telescope"	April 2018
4/12/2018	Dr. Mark J. Reid	"Mapping the Milky Way"	May 2018
5/10/2018	Alan Hirshfeld	"From Backyard to Mountaintop: The Adventures of History's Best Worst Telescope"	June 2018
6/14/2018	Kelly Beatty	"Mysterious Mars"	July 2018
7/12/2018	ATMoB member night	Member presentations Rich Nugent - description of a virtual counterweight he's using on his 20-inch Dob James Synge - Project PANOPTES update Corey Mooney - 3D printing, sand casting aluminum parts, and using a wide field CMOS camera to augment binocular outreach	September 2018
9/13/2018	ATMoB member night	Member presentations Julie Kaufmann - "My eclipse experiences" Outreach program Glenn Chaple - "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Hosting Star Parties" Rich Nugent and Laura Sailor - "ATMoB Outreach and Star Parties"	October 2018
10/11/2018	Dr. Jennifer Burt	Discovering New Worlds with TESS	November 2018
11/8/2018	Rich Sanderson	A Half Century of Cosmic Spectacles: My Personal Top-10 List	December 2019
12/13/2018	Dr. Stella Kafka	Variable Stars and their Stories	January 2019

2017

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/12/2017	Tim Brothers	"Wallace at 45: Charting a Course for the Future"	February
2/9/2017	canceled due to snow storm		March
3/9/2017	Dr. Douglas Arion	"'Are We Special?' Engaging the Public with Astronomy and Nature Education	April
4/13/2017	Kevin Collins	"13 inch Coulter Odyssey I Turned Ultra Compact Project"	May
5/11/2017	Kelly Beatty	"Adventures in Chile: 24/7"	June
6/8/2017	W. Lowell Putnam	"The Lowell Observatory: Past, Present, and Future"	July
7/13/2017	ATMoB member night	Member presentations Al Takeda - abbreviated version of Stellafane talk "Imaging the Great American Total Solar Eclipse" Mario Motta - how to safely observe the total solar eclipse Julie Sage - "Cubes in Space", a science program for students 11-18 years old Jim Mahoney - how to configure an iPhone or iPad for red screen mode Alan Sliski - restoration and relocation of a 36-inch Boller and Chivens telescope built in 1965	September
9/14/2017	ATMoB member night	Member presentations - The Great American Total Solar Eclipse Bernie Volz and Mario Motta - Club trip to Columbia, MO Phil Levine - eclipse photos from the ATMoB Clubhouse Arianna Roberts - summary of the Citizen CATE Project Maria Batista - total solar eclipse as viewed from Ocean Lake, WY Bruce Berger - Sky & Telescope trip to Hopkinsville, Kentucky Michael Brown - solar eclipse from Madras, OR Alan Sliski - solar eclipse from Salem, OR	October
10/12/2017	Tom Calderwood	"Building the One Hundred Inch Telescope - In Boston"	November
11/9/2017	Tom Lepisto and Jean LeVaux	"Howard LeVaux in Antarctica with IGY - 1959-1960"	December
12/14/2017	Peter Scherff	"Meteorites 101: What they are, where they come from & how we find them"	January

2016

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/14/2016	ATMoB member night	"Member Presentations Night Al Takeda - detailed description of the facilities at the ATMoB Clubhouse in Westford Bob Naeye - recent visits to the Mount Wilson, Griffith and Palomar Observatories, and the California Science Center Dick Koolish, Alan Sliski, and Ken Launie - summary of the Antique Telescope Society's (ATS) visit to the Lick (California (CA)), Chabot (CA), Stanford Solar (CA), Yerkes (Wisconsin) and Leiden (Netherlands) observatories	February
2/11/2016	Babak Tafreshi	"The World At Night"	March
3/10/2016	Marc Stowbridge	"The New Hampshire Astronomical Society Library Telescope Program"	April
4/14/2016	Steve Nadis	"From the Great Wall to the Great Collider: China and the Quest to Uncover the Inner Workings of the Universe"	May
5/12/2016	Michael Rudenko	"Minor Planet Center Operations"	June
6/9/2016	Bob Naeye	"Gravitational Wave Update"	July
7/14/2016	ATMoB member night	Member presentations Alan and Aaron Sliski - overview of the redeployment of the AAVSO Photometric All-Sky Survey (APASS) telescope system Phil Levine - photos from an ATMoB public outreach star party on Nantucket Mario Motta - update on a Harvard-Smithsonian (CfA) research project measuring the light curve of the disintegrating planetoid orbiting the white dwarf, WD1145+017	September
9/8/2016	Michael O'Shea	"#popscope Observing Outreach Program"	October
10/13/2016	Jim Zebrowski	"The Real Martian: Earth Explores the Red Planet"	November
11/10/2016	Peter Tyson	"The Making of Sky and Telescope Magazine"	December
12/8/2016	Andrew Vanderburg	"The Story of WD 1145+017 - Destruction of an Exoplanet"	January

2015

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/8/2015	Glenn Chaple	"Visual Observing of Variable Stars - An Addict's Story"	February
2/12/2015	Dr. Michael Clarage	"Understanding the Electric Sun Model, The Earth's Electrical Environment, and Electric Double Layers in Astronomy"	March
3/12/2015	Dr. Daniel Eisenstein	"Dark Energy and Cosmic Sound"	April
4/9/2015	Li Zeng	"Uncovering the Chemistry of Earth-Like Planets"	May
5/14/2015	Dr. Ryan Allured	"X-Ray Observatories & Optics"	June
6/11/2015	ATMoB member night	Annual meeting and member presentations Mario Motta - 3rd International Artificial Light at Night (ALAN) conference held in Quebec Bernie Voltz - updated the membership on the upcoming 2017 eclipse trip Penny Lucinian - personal radio astronomy project John Sheff - New Horizons planet Pluto mission	July
7/9/2015	Norman Sperling	"Development of the Astroscan Wide-Field Newtonian"	September
9/10/2015	Alan Sliski	"Restoration of a 1916 Warner & Swasey Telescope"	October
10/8/2015	Glenn Chaple	"Astro Humor, with Glenn Chaple"	November
11/12/2015	Kelly Beatty	"Pluto's Amazing Story"	December
12/10/2015	Dr. Stella Kafka	"Type Ia Supernova Progenitors"	January

2014

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/9/2014	Professor Karin Öberg	"Icy Origins: Snowlines During Star and Planet Formation"	February
2/13/2014			March
3/13/2014	Professor Max Tegmark	"Our Mathematical Universe"	April
4/10/2014	Dr. Justin Kasper	"Solar Probe Plus and SWEAP"	May
5/8/2014	Monica Young	"Black Holes and the Beast in Our Galaxy"	June
6/12/2014	ATMoB member night	Member presentations: "History Of the ATMoB" Anna Hillier - "Our Quest for the Perfect Clubhouse" John Reed - past thirty years since we acquired our then "dark sky site" in rural Westford, MA Paul Valleli - growth of amateur astronomy at the present Clubhouse	July
7/10/2014	ATMoB member night	Member presentations Mike Hill - talk on his 4 1/4" reflector rebuild Bruce Berger - update on our ATMoB Research and Imaging Observatory (ARIO) Steve Clougherty - reconstruction and installation of the 25 inch Dobsonian which is in the "Ed Knight" roll off observatory Nick Bealo - observatory he built for his high school Paul Valleli - "ATMoB participation in Operation Moonwatch"	September
9/11/2014	ATMoB members	"ATMoB's Direction Checkpoint Workshop"	October
10/9/2014	Dr. Peter Fritschel	"LIGO and Gravitational Waves & Detection"	November
11/13/2014	Dr. Arne Henden	"Variable Star Observing"	December
12/11/2014	Dr. Kelly E. Korreck	"Resolving the Sun's Hot Corona: High Resolution Solar Imaging in the Extreme Ultraviolet"	January

2013

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/10/2013	Dr Bradley Thomson	"Results of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)"	February
2/14/2013	Dr. Arne Henden	"Measuring the Unknown Universe"	March
3/14/2013	Dr. Taylor Perron	"Rain, Rivers and the Icy Landscape of Titan"	April
4/11/2013	Dr. Leon Golub	"A New View of the Solar Corona"	May
5/9/2013	Professor Jonathan E. Grindlay	"DASCH: Back t o the Future with the Harvard Plates"	June
6/13/2013	Jeffrey Dominick	"Haystack, Historically Speaking"	July
7/11/2013	ATMoB member night	"Member Night Mike Hill - telescope making project James Chamberlain - astrophotography on a modest budget Bruce Berger - ARIO (ATMoB Research and Imaging) Observatory which is nearing completion John Sheff - his website (www.bostonastronomy.net), information source about astronomy events in Boston Jim Gettys - CCD chip design Dick Koolish - ATMoBs participation in the June 21st Summer Solstice Festival held at Harvard Univ.	September
9/12/2013	Mario Motta	"A Day in the Life of a 32 Inch Telescope Mirror" (Italian trip to install mirror at the Schiaparelli Observatory)	October
10/10/2013	Glenn Chaple	"Double Stars"	November
11/14/2013	Dr. Thomas Dame	"Big Science with "Mini" Telescopes: Mapping the Galaxy from NYC, Cambridge, and Chile"	December
12/12/2013	Dr. Nelson Caldwell	"A Multi-Color Examination of the Andromeda Galaxy"	January

2012

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/12/2012	Dr. Steve Leman	"Searching for the Universe from Iron Mine"	February
2/9/2012	ATMoB member night	Member’s presentations and swap night Bob Naeye - report with slides of a trip to Chile held on September 21-29, 2011 Virginia Renehan - report on the Starlab Observatory (given to the ATMOB by the MIT Kavli Institute) Gerry Sussman - work done on the Schupmann telescope by Eric Johansson, John Blomquist, Phil Rounseville, and himself Mike Hill - how to make a mirror in a small apartment kitchen Ken Launie - the Steward Mirror Lab of The University of Arizona Alan Sliski - upgrade to a private observatory in Dover MA	March
3/8/2012	Professor Alyssa Goodman	"Interstellar Gas and Star Formation with Data Visualization"	April
4/12/2012	Dan Falk	"In Search of Time"	May
5/10/2012	Robert Naeye	"Transits of Venus"	June
6/14/2012	Timothy Barker	"Sky Pollution Rejection Filters and What They Reveal About Nebulae"	July
7/12/2012	ATMoB member night	Member presentations & swap night James Chamberlain - solar scopes and projection arrangements for viewing the transient of Venus 6/5 Bruce Berger - light weight optics Mario Motta - medical effects of light pollution Tom Calderwood - travel telescope Bruce Tinkler - observation of the Transient of Venus in Alaska	September
9/13/2012	Dennis diCicco	"A Mosaic of the Hydrogen Sky"	October
10/11/2012	Dr Bob Kirshner	"Measuring Supernovae Distances"	November
11/8/2012	Jim Hand	"American Triumph: Project Apollo"	December
12/13/2012	ATMoB member night	Australia 11/13/13 solar eclipse presentations Jerry and Julie Sussman Kelly Beatty Bob Naeye Mario Motta Bernie Volz AL Takeda Howard Levaux Bert Halstead	January

2011

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/14/2011	Dr. Mark Bautz	"Probing the Universe with Galaxy Clusters: New Windows from New Technologies"	February
2/10/2011	ATMoB member night	Member presentations and swap night Mario Motta - "Italian Observatories" Mike Hill - "The New ATMoB Workshop" Neil Fleming, Bruce Berger, Glenn Chaple - "ATMoB Observing Awards Program" Bernie Volz - "Total Solar Eclipse Trip Update"	March
3/10/2011	Dr. Giovanni Fazio	"Viewing the Universe with Infrared Eyes: The Spitzer Space Telescope"	April
4/14/2011	Dr. Sean Andrews	"Protoplanetary Disks and the Hunt for the Yougnest Exoplanets"	May
5/12/2011	Tom Calderwood	"An Astronomer Reads Thoreau"	June
6/9/2011	Bob Naeye	"The Origin of Everything: How Things Got to Be the Way They Are Right Now"	July
7/14/2011	ATMoB member night	Members presentations Joseph Rothchild - Bushnell Ares 5" Travel Telescope Mario Motta and Kelly Beatty - outdoor lighting and the International Dark Sky (IDA) standards Mario Motta - silvering of his 3" mirror	September
9/8/2011	Tom Field	"Real-Time Spectroscopy for Amateur Astronomers"	October
10/13/2011	Dr Alan Guth	"Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse?"	November
11/10/2011	Christopher Stubbs	"The Dark Energy Crisis and its impact on Fundamental Physics"	December
12/8/2011	Dr. Shep Doeleman	"The Event Horizon Telescope: Observing Black Holes with Schwarzschild-Radius Resolution"	January

2010

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/14/2010	Ruben Kier	"Best Targets for Astrophotography and What They Reveal About Our Universe"	February
2/11/2010	ATMoB members	Member presentation "Show and Tell" Mike Hill - building a 10-inch Newtonian, that was portable and on an equatorial fork mount Tom Calderwood - volunteering at the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket Gerry Sussman - involvement with Eric Johansson in "making the 6-inch Schupmann actually work" Mario Motta - recent modifications on his 32-inch, f/6 relay telescope	March
3/11/2010	Sara Seager	"Exoplanets and the Search for Habitable Worlds"	April
	Dr. Peter McCullough	techniques used to search for extrasolar planets, McCullough’s own XO planet project and how amateurs can assist the professionals in this field	May
5/13/2010	Bob Naeye	"Twenty Years in Space: The Hubble Space Telescope’s Greatest Achievements"	June
6/10/2010	Dr. Rosanne Di Stefano	"Supernovae, Lensing, and Other Transient Phenomena: What we learn from space, from the ground, and from theory"	July
7/8/2010	ATMoB member night	Member presentations and swap night Chuck Evans - the observatory he built at his house Mike Hill and Steve Clougherty - the functional completion of the Clam Shell Observatory at the clubhouse Tom Calderwood - his time as an astronomy volunteer at Acadia National Park in Maine Mario Motta - an update on his Wingaersheek Observatory	September
9/9/2010	Dr. Anna Frebel	"Stellar Archaeology: New Science With Old Stars"	October
10/14/2010	Julio Vannini	"Astronomy in a Small Nation"	November
11/11/2010	Tom Murphy	"Einstein, the Moon, and the Long-lost Soviet Lunar Rover: Testing Gravity with Lasers to the Moon"	December
12/9/2010	Dr. Grant H. Stokes	"Discovering Near-Earth Asteroids"	January

2009

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/8/2009	Peter Cheimets	Solar b XRT: The design and development of the X-Ray telescope for Hinode	February
2/12/2009	Dr. Russell F. Pinizzotto, PhD	The Colors of Stars	March
3/12/2009	ATMoB member night	Member presentations: "Show and Tel"l and swap table Paul Valleli - progress on his backyard observatory Mike Hill -10-inch Newtonian project Tom Janzen - digital astrophotography with a camera placed upon a German equatorial mount Dick Koolish - construction of a sundial at Robbins Park Mario Motta - impromptu presentation showing images from his visit to Alan Delman's home in Arizona	April
4/9/2009	Robert Benoit	Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)	May
5/14/2009	Robert Naeye	Mars in 3D!	June
6/11/2009	Dr. James Elliot	Occultations by Kuiper Belt Objects	July
7/9/2009	ATMoB member night	Member presentations & Mini-swap meet Bruce Berger - update on the Clubhouse workshop Peter Bealo- Science Museum in London opening a new exhibit called "Cosmos & Culture: How Astronomy has Shaped Our World" Ken Launie - talk on E.C. Pickering, astronomer and director of Harvard Observatory received an anonymous donation of $20,000, known as "The Gift of 1902"	September
9/10/2009	Marica Bartusiak	"The Day We Discovered the Universe"	October
10/8/2009	Jay Cross	"State of the Art Astronomy Circa 1540"	November
11/12/2009	Gary Jacobson, Bernie Volz, John Briggs, Paul Valleli and Bruce Berger	"The Occulation of Kuiper Belt Object 55636" reports from Mike Person of MIT and 5 ATMoB members who attempted to capture data from the occultation of the Kuiper Belt asteroid KB55636 on October 9, 2009"	December
12/10/2009	Patricia Udomprasert	WorldWide Telescope Ambassadors Program	January

2008

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/10/2008	Dr. Charles Lada	"The Search for Stellar Origins from Antiquity to the 21st Century"	February
2/14/2008	E. Samuel Palmer	history of the discovery of interstellar molecular clouds and his work using Harvard Observatory's millimeter-wave radio telescope on the roof above the Philips auditorium.	March
3/13/2008	Dr. William Waller	"At Home Among the Galaxies"	April
4/10/2008	Dr. Warren R. Brown	Hypervelocity Stars Ejected from the Galactic Center	May
5/8/2008	Dr. Sara Schechner	"The Adventures of Captain John Smith, Pocahontas, and a Sundial: Astronomy, Mathematics, and Power at the Time of Jamestown"	June
6/12/2008	Dr. Alan Marscher	"Jets from Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei"	July
7/10/2008	ATMoB member night	Member presentations and flea market Mario Motta - 32 inch relay telescope John Boudreau - planetary images John Sheff - NASA's planetary missions	September
9/11/2008	Robert Naeye	NASA's Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), recently renamed FERMI Gamma Ray Space Telescope	October
10/9/2008	Dr. Arne Henden	"Amateur Contributions in the Era of Surveys"	November
11/13/2008	Ken Launie	history of the telescope as well as reports from conferences celebrating the 400th anniversary	December
12/11/2008	Dr. Jonathan McDowell	Fifty years ago: The birth of NASA, 1958	January

2007

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/11/2007	Jim Foy (NSAAC) and John Boudreau (ATMoB)	astro-imaging	February
2/8/2007	Dr. Dan Fabricant	The Giant Magellan Telescope - description and its scientific mission.	March
3/8/2007	Dr. Daniel W.E. Green	"The History of the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams"	April
4/12/2007	Dr. Katharine Reeves	Solar Flare Observations Using the X-ray Telescope on Hinode	May
5/10/2007	Dr. A. Anthony Stark	"AST/RO and SPT: A Tale of Two Telescopes on the Antarctic Plateau"	June
6/14/2007	Bob Crelin and NELPAG	Light pollution and amateur astronomers.Discussion of current issues and efforts in the fight against outdoor light trespass/glare and against outdoor over-lighting	July
7/12/2007	ATMoB member night	Member presentations / Flea Market Virginia Renehan - read a message from ATMoB member Haldun Menali. He and Dick Parker (Hartford Club) are in Turkey putting on a mirror making workshop Dave Wilber - visit to the Mount Wilson Observatory Al Takeda - discussion of astrophotography with Canon 20D digital SLR Mike Hill - cleaning up and refurbishing the attic at the ATMoB clubhouse John Boudreau - showed a few of his astrophotography images Paul Valleli - Hubble image mosaic of Eta Carina and new 24 inch Richey-Cretien telescope at the Maria Mitchelle Observatory in Nantucket Fred Ward - new dome to replace his current one Bruce Berger presented a 30 second movie of the trial assembly that they performed in Fred's garage	September
9/13/2007	Neil Fleming	Astrophotography talk highlighting some of his images	October
10/11/2007	Dr. Lisa Kaltenegger	"How to Spot a Pale Blue Dot in the Night Sky - Signatures of Life on Extrasolar Planets"	November
11/8/2007	Dr. Robert A. Gonsalves	"Phase Diversity Imaging: Real Time Correction of the Atmosphere and Telescope"	December
12/13/2007	canceled due to snow storm		January

2006

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/12/2006	Dennis Di Cicco, Edwin Aquirre, and Imelda Joson	Total Solar Eclipses and the March 29th Eclipse	February
2/9/2006	Dr. David Latham	"The Search for Habitable Planets"	March
3/9/2006	Dr. Leon Golub	"Observing the X-ray Sun"	April
4/13/2006	ATMoB member night	Member presentations - total solar eclipse - Egypt, Turkey and Libya Al Takeda - Al-Salloum sun and eclipse photos Mario Motta - Egypt expedition travelogue Ken Launie - Egyptian expedition member pictures and Egyptian life Bert Halstead - Egyptian eclipse and pyramids Bob Naeye - Lybia with Sky and Telescope Paul Valleli - post eclipse image processing John Boudreau - planetary pictures Post meeting presentations: Jun Lao (Ohio) Sal LaRiccia Howard LeVaux	May
5/11/2006	Mario Motta and Scot Milligan	"The Wingaersheek Observatory and Telescope"	June
6/8/2006	Joshua Semeter	"Optical Remote Sensing of the Aurora Borealis"	July
7/13/2006	Mr. Robert Benoit	Robert Benoit - optical systems design and fabrication for aerospace applications Member presentations Paul Valleli - 11-minute video of Mario Motta being interviewed about light pollution Mario Motta - 32 inch assembly and first light with images Ross Barrow - Linkeos software and his 1st attempts at astrophotography Bob Naeye - 2 presentations Pollex has a planet that is 2.5 Jupiter's and has 590 day orbit. A paper in the journal Nature with proposal by the Univ. of Colorado and Northrop/Grummand to fly a mission to take a spectrum to find earth sized planets	September
9/14/2006	Jim and Rhoda Morris	Making of Galileo's Telescopes	October
10/12/2006	Dr. Hale Bradt	"The Instrumental Life of An X-Ray Astronomer: Chasing Neutron Stars and Black Holes"	November
11/9/2006	Dr. Owen Gingerich	"Planet Peril in Prague: What Happened to Pluto"	December
12/14/2006	Dr. Max Tegmark	"The History of Our Universe in One Hour"	January

2005

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/13/2005	Dr. Michael Mallary	"Our Improbable Universe. The Evolution of Primordial Energy into Mind"	February
2/10/2005	ATMoB members	Swap meet and member presentations Lew Gramer - Texas Star Party Mario Motta - new house/observatory and 32" glass blank Bob Naeye - update on the Huygens probe and landing on Titan	March
3/10/2005	Dr. Arne Henden	"The Amateurs Role in Professional Astronomy"	April
4/14/2005	Steven Hunt	doing research on meteors on the Atoll of Kwajalein	May
5/12/2005	David Charbonneau		June
5/12/2005	Bob Naeye	search for extra-solar planets, and the acceleration of their discoveries
6/9/2005	Todd Gross	"The Weather, how it affects our observing and imaging"	July
7/14/2005	ATMoB member night	Member presentations David Aucoin - Planetary Nebula's (not in July newsletter in meeting recap) Mario Motta presented by Scott Milligan - Update on the 32" telescope project Bruce Berger - Internet access from the clubhouse Paul Valleli - NEAF 2005, a visit to Vassar Observatory and Nantucket plate stacks Mike Hill - Glass Room update Joseph Rothchild - Counterbalanced tripod for a 6" scope Virginia Renehan - The Night Sky Network	September
9/8/2005	Eric Buehrens	"Planning and Building an Amateur Roll-Off Roof Observatory"	October
10/13/2005	Aaron Price	"Drinking From a Firehouse: Getting Astronomy News Online"	November
11/10/2005	David Tytell	"What's News in Planetary Science: Planets, Comets, Moons, and More"	December
12/8/2005	Bob Simcoe and Edward Los	Harvard College Observatory's glass plate collection	January

2004

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/8/2004		Show-and-Tell and Flea Market	February
2/12/2004	Glenn Chaple	variable star talk	March
3/11/2004	Robert Naeye	"Go Spirit! Go Opportunity!"	April
4/8/2004	Bob Simcoe	"Scanning the Historic Sky"	May
5/13/2004	Rich Nugent	"The Transits of Venus"	June
6/10/2004	Larry Candell	"The Mars Laser Communications Demonstration Program"	July
7/8/2004	Dan Falk	"Can the universe be understood in terms of a single theory -- a theory so concise it could fit on a T-shirt?"	September
9/9/2004	Tye Brady	spoke about Draper's Inertial Stellar Compass (ISC)	October
10/14/2004	Dr. James Elliot	topic of observing occultation’s of Kuiper Belt Objects and how amateurs can help	November
11/11/2004	Dr. Kenneth Janes	"One hundred and fifteen years of astronomy at Boston University"	December
12/9/2004	Ed Ting	"The Best and The Worst: A serious (and not so serious) look at equipment available today for the amateur astronomer"	January

2003

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/9/2003	Dr. Brian Marsden	"First discussed a history of observations for objects beyond Neptune, and how various objects (Ceres, Chiron) had been identified as the nth planet orbiting our sun Also talked about first Trans-Neptunian object and described the characteristics and taxonomy of the various objects being discovered in that region of our solar system"	February
2/13/2003	ATMoB member night	Show and Tell and Flea Market Paul Manning - portrayal of Galileo Lou Cohen - description of his home observatory Max Ben Aarron - descsription of Olbers Paradox Carl Hein - presented on the current state of Light Emmitting Diode (LED) technology Paul Valleli and Bruce Berger down at Winter Star Party – Key West, FL Bruce and Dick Koolish - pictures of the Clark Refractor Refurbishment project Mario Motta - collection of images and experimentation with color	March
3/13/2003	Dr. Supriya Chakrabarti	"SPIDR: A Boston Area Small Explorer Mission"	April
4/10/2003	Joe Caruso	"The Geologic History of the Moon"	May
5/8/2003	Dr. Martha Hazen	History of the plates, how they were made and used, how they are being used today, plans to digitize them, and more	June
6/12/2003	Ron Dantowitz	"High Resolution Imaging Techniques"	July
7/10/2003	ATMoB member night	Show-and-Tell and Flea Market Joseph Rothchild - experience at the Sky Watchers Inn in Benxon, AZ Mario Motta - plans for new home including observatory Mike Hill - home observatory and solution to local light pollution Gary Walker - experiences with SBIG STV auto guider Charlie McDonald - work he is pursuing with the Project Astro group involving Gamma Ray bursters Hung Pham - latest version of Lunar Map Pro, showing available new features	September
9/11/2003	Willie Soon	"Climate History of the Last 1000 Years: What do we know and what we don’t"	October
10/9/2003	Marc T. Daigle	overview of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) program	November
11/13/2003	Joshua Roth	"A New Chapter in Cosmology: Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe"	December
12/11/2003	David Aguilar	"Telescopes I've Known And Why We Study Astronomy"	January

2002

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/10/2002	Dr. Sun Kwok	Cosmic Butterflies: The Colourful Mysteries of Planetary Nebulae	February
2/14/2002	Mike Hill and Ed Los	"Monitoring Solar Flare Activity with a VLF Radio Receiver (Mike) The McWilliams Magnetometer (Ed)"	March
3/14/2002	Dr. Jay Pasachoff	The Sun and Solar Eclipses	April
4/11/2002	Dr. Josh Winn	Gravitational Lenses
	Brian Lula	An Odyssey In Telescope Making	June
6/13/2002	Frank Sienkiewicz	MicroObservatory Online Telescopes for Science Education	July
7/11/2002	ATMoB member night	Show-and-Tell and Flea Market Bruce Gerhard - demonstrated the GlareBuster Mike Hill - demonstrated a spot light shield based on a Sky and Telescope Gary Walker and Lou Cohen - pictures from Hawaii trip for the AAVSO 2002 Spring Meeting Dan Feldkhun - pictures from Baxter State Park Camping trip Michael Carnes - travel scope and modified tripod	September
9/12/2002	Dr. George R. Ricker	Gamma-ray Bursts and the High Energy Transient Explorer	October
10/10/2002	Dr. Leonard L. Amburgey	Discovery of NEO 2000NM By An Amateur Observer	November
11/14/2002	Lew Gramer	The Lion's Last Roar: Observing the last Leonid Storm from New England	December
12/12/2002	Prof. Alyssa Goodman	current understanding of how the interstellar medium forms stars	January

2001

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/11/2001	Dr. Steve Murray	The Chandra X-ray Observatory - What is it, and What is it Seeing?	February
2/8/2001	Dr. Alois Mair	The Storage of Light	March
3/8/2001	Dr. Robert P. Stefanik	SETI and the Search for Low Mass Companions to Stars at Oak Ridge Observatory	April
4/12/2001	Paul Horowitz	FLASH! Searching for Alien Lasers Using Optical SETI	May
5/10/2001	John W. Briggs	George Ellery Hale's Magnificent Solar Telescopes	June
6/14/2001	Gerald Jay Sussman	The Magellan I Guider-Probe Controller	July
7/12/2001	ATMoB member night	Flea Market/Swap Table and Show-and-Tell Stellafane preparation	September
9/13/2001	Dr. Avi Loeb	The First Stars and their Effect on the Universe	October
10/11/2001	Dr. Bryan Gaensler	Champagne Supernova in the Sky	November
11/8/2001	Fred Baganoff	Unveiling the Galactic Center with the Chandra Xray Observatory	December
12/13/2001	Dr. Jeremy Heyl	Severe Weather on Neutron Stars	January

2000

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/13/2000	member night	Mario Motta - demonstrated homemade filter wheel Bob Collara - showed slides of the fabrication of a 12-inch flat Bob Cohen - showed slides of the grinding machine had made for the clubhouse Peter Bruckner - plans for the new ATMoB roll-off observatory David Aucoin - showcased his new 13"" dobsonian Gerry Sussman - dual design guider of a twin 6.5 telescope located at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile Howard Levaux - experiences viewing the transit of Mercury from Key West Florida	February
2/10/2000	Tom Calderwood	"Adventures in Chandra­Land"	March
3/9/2000	Zack Pujic	"Observing Jupiter"	April
4/13/2000	David Lunt	"Design and use considerations for ultra-narrowband filters in solar observations"	May
5/11/2000	Kevin Manning	design and construction of his club's observatory	June
6/8/2000	Dr Philip Morrison	"Many Far-off Planets - and Maybe their Astronomers"	July
7/13/2000	ATMoB members	Bernie Volz - update on solar eclipse trip Gary Jacobson - home made binoculars using two 4 1/2"" reflectors mounted to dobsonian base Gary Walker - tips on how to build an observatory Lew Gramer - spoke about telescopic observations of meteors Mario Motta - presented samples of his astrophotography	September
9/14/2000	Dr. Robert Donahue	solar astronomy	October
10/12/2000	David Malin	Astrophotography	November
11/9/2000	R.P. Hale	In Caxtolcuaúhtli Tlatoliztli - A Talk on the Aztec Calendar Round	December
12/14/2000	Dr. Andrea Prestwich	Making Monsters? Chandra observations of starburst galaxies reveal mid-sized black holes	January

1995

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/12/1995	member night	Kevin McCarthy - fabricating Schmidt cameras Paul Ciccetti - his technique for drawing lunar features (published in Sky & Telescope) Ken Launie - slides of the Antique Telescope Society's Octoer, 1994 meeting in San Francsico Howard Levaux - slides of his eclipse trip	February
2/9/1995	Ursula Marvin	"A ramble through meteoritics from 1794 to 1994"	March
3/9/1995	Dr. Margaret Geller	"So Many Galaxies ... So Little Time"	April
4/13/1995	Dr. Lawrence Marscall	"The Supernova Story"	May
5/11/1995	Dr. James Moran	studying masers in regions of star formation	June
6/8/1995	Dr. Laurence R. Young	medical effects of spaceflight	July
7/13/1995	member night	Marion Hochuli - photographs of the Mir-Space Shuttle passing, attempts to locate Pluto Dick Koolish - showed a 1932 eclipse viewer Joseph Rothchild - observing aids he has implemented to augment his viewing Vlad Vudler and John Reed - photos of the Mir-Shuttle pass over taken from Boston's Museum of Science Mario Motta - slides of telescope making that was part of the partnership in Astronomy program in the Lynnfield School. He also showed slides of deep space objects he took through his 32-inch telescope Gary Walker - presented and explained variable star data he and others had gathered via CCD imaging	September
9/14/1995	Heidi Hammel	"The Catastrophic Collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter"	October
10/12/1995	Dr. Rudy Schild	"The Universe is my Telescope: Gravitational Lenses and Microlensing"	November
11/9/1995	Dr. Albert Cameron	"Violence in the Early Solar System: Formation of the Moon and Mercury"	December
12/14/1995	Dr. John Wood	CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW: "Venus after the Magellan Mission"	Not Available

1994

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/13/1994	Daniel W. E. Green	"Reflections on a bridght fireball seen last August over New England"	February
2/10/1994	Dr. Jay M. Pasachoff	"The sun and solar eclipses"	March
3/10/1994	member night	Dick Koolish - information about May 10, 1994 solar eclipse Ed Dougherty - videos of computer generated simulations of the solar eclipse and Shoemaker/Levy-Jupiter Mike Mattei/Eric Johannson - observing the Shoemaker/Levy-Jupiter impact Kevin McCarthy - talked about his compact and portable Desk Top Polishing machine Gary Walker - CCD image of the Wales Tail section of the Horseehad nebula	April
4/14/1994	Brian Schmidt	"Measuring Extragalactic Distances with Supernovae"	May
5/12/1994	member night	Ted Poulos - downloading satellite images using a home-built antenna to computer Mario Motta - building his 32-inch telescope in his NH observatory Ed Dougherty - video of annular eclipse from Gary Walker's NH observing site Peter Bealo - solar and lunar eclipse photos Bernie Volz - slides on last total lunar eclipse and aurora as seen in Ashland and the Kitt Observatory Vlad Vudler - annular eclipse photos Joe Rothchild - video of the annular eclipse Gary Walker - astrophotos using CCD	June
6/9/1994	Steve O'Meara	"Atmospheric Phenomena"	July
7/14/1994	member night	"not very much specific information, but included: annular and lunar eclipse photos, CCD images of jupiter and other astrophotographs Rick Berman - spectroscope he built"	September
9/8/1994	Kelly Beatty	"After the Crash" collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter	October
10/13/1994	Robert Kirshner	Supernovae Intensive Study (talk on using supernovae to detennine the size of the universe)	November
11/10/1994	James Cornell	"Selling Astronomy: Public Information, Outreach, and Education"	December
12/8/1994	member night	"Tales from the November 1994 solar eclipse" Dan Green and Steve O'Meara - Bolivia Bernie Volz and Mario Motta Dennis diCicco - Sky & Telescope Chris Hallas	January

1993

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/14/1993	member night	Ed Dougherty, Peter Bealo, Bob Heller - vacuum evaporator project French & Associates (John Gallagher, Jack Frech and John Mosberger) - telescope project in Lynn Tal Mental - slides of the Lynn site Mike Mattei - drawing Mars and current favorable viewing of Mars Mario Motta - Summary of 18' observatory ""from woods to usable observatory in 4 months Gerry Sussman - attempts to collimate one of the 2.4 meter mirrors at Kitt Peak	February
2/11/1993	Dr. Henry M. Pollock III	Vision at Night	March
3/11/1993	Dr. Gerald J. Sussman	"The Chaotic Motion of the Soalr System"	April
4/8/1993	Dr. Rudy Schild	"Gravitational Lenses"	May
5/13/1993	Scott Milligan and David Kelly	"Optical testing for amateur telescope makers"	June
6/10/1993	Elizabeth Gavicchi	"Painting the Moon"	July
7/1/1993	member night	Tal Mentall - showed video of Frontline interview of him at clubhouse Gary Walker - what can and can't be done with a CCD camera and telescopes Ed Doughtery - discussion about pixels and film resolution	September
9/9/1993	Dr. Owen Gingerich	The Great Copernicus Chase	October
10/14/1993	Dr. Charles Lada	Man's quest to understand the nature and origm of the sun and stars	November
11/11/1993	Dr. Shadia Habbai	"Temperature Structure, Spatial Structure, and Variability of the Emission in the Solar Corona"	December
12/9/1993	Gerald Sussman	"Repairing a 2.4m telescope" inability to collimate and subsequent repair of the primary mirror's mounting systems of the 2.4 meter Hiltner telescope at Kitt Peak	January

List of past speakers 2000 - present

This list is a work in progress. Some changes may be made and dates added as they become available.

2019

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/10/2019	Kelly Blumenthal	Galaxies: From Observations to Simulations	February 2019
2/14/2019	Camille Carlisle	Black Holes	March 2019
3/14/2019	Hugh Blair-Smith	"Left Brains for the Right Stuff: Computers, Space, and History	April 2019
4/11/2019	Calvin Leung	Testing Quantum Mechanics with Cosmic Photons on the Canary Islands	May 2019
5/9/2019	Dr. George R. Ricker	Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Update	June 2019
6/13/2019	Kelly Beatty	Library Telescope Program and Stonehenge	July 2019
7/11/2019	ATMoB member night	Member presentations Alan Sliski - Eclipse Expedition to CTIO in Chile Cory Mooney - OnStep: GoTo Mount Conversion George Roberts - Bath Interferometer Rich Nugent - Lunar Observing: Revisting an Old Friend	September 2019
9/12/2019	Al Takeda	Deep Sky Imaging using a DSLR	October 2019
10/12/2019	Dr. Peter Vereš	Current State of the Planetary Defense	November 2019
11/14/2019	Dr. JJ Hermes	When the referee lets you name your stars	December 2019
12/12/2019	Babak Tafreshi	A Thousand Nights Under Stars	January 2020

2018

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/11/2018	Richard Nugent	"Observing Satellites"	February 2018
2/8/2018	Kevin Collins	"Journey Into Totality"	March 2018
3/8/2018	Andrew Chael	"Imaging a Black Hole with the Event Horizon Telescope"	April 2018
4/12/2018	Dr. Mark J. Reid	"Mapping the Milky Way"	May 2018
5/10/2018	Alan Hirshfeld	"From Backyard to Mountaintop: The Adventures of History's Best Worst Telescope"	June 2018
6/14/2018	Kelly Beatty	"Mysterious Mars"	July 2018
7/12/2018	ATMoB member night	Member presentations Rich Nugent - description of a virtual counterweight he's using on his 20-inch Dob James Synge - Project PANOPTES update Corey Mooney - 3D printing, sand casting aluminum parts, and using a wide field CMOS camera to augment binocular outreach	September 2018
9/13/2018	ATMoB member night	Member presentations Julie Kaufmann - "My eclipse experiences" Outreach program Glenn Chaple - "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Hosting Star Parties" Rich Nugent and Laura Sailor - "ATMoB Outreach and Star Parties"	October 2018
10/11/2018	Dr. Jennifer Burt	Discovering New Worlds with TESS	November 2018
11/8/2018	Rich Sanderson	A Half Century of Cosmic Spectacles: My Personal Top-10 List	December 2019
12/13/2018	Dr. Stella Kafka	Variable Stars and their Stories	January 2019

2017

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/12/2017	Tim Brothers	"Wallace at 45: Charting a Course for the Future"	February
2/9/2017	canceled due to snow storm		March
3/9/2017	Dr. Douglas Arion	"'Are We Special?' Engaging the Public with Astronomy and Nature Education	April
4/13/2017	Kevin Collins	"13 inch Coulter Odyssey I Turned Ultra Compact Project"	May
5/11/2017	Kelly Beatty	"Adventures in Chile: 24/7"	June
6/8/2017	W. Lowell Putnam	"The Lowell Observatory: Past, Present, and Future"	July
7/13/2017	ATMoB member night	Member presentations Al Takeda - abbreviated version of Stellafane talk "Imaging the Great American Total Solar Eclipse" Mario Motta - how to safely observe the total solar eclipse Julie Sage - "Cubes in Space", a science program for students 11-18 years old Jim Mahoney - how to configure an iPhone or iPad for red screen mode Alan Sliski - restoration and relocation of a 36-inch Boller and Chivens telescope built in 1965	September
9/14/2017	ATMoB member night	Member presentations - The Great American Total Solar Eclipse Bernie Volz and Mario Motta - Club trip to Columbia, MO Phil Levine - eclipse photos from the ATMoB Clubhouse Arianna Roberts - summary of the Citizen CATE Project Maria Batista - total solar eclipse as viewed from Ocean Lake, WY Bruce Berger - Sky & Telescope trip to Hopkinsville, Kentucky Michael Brown - solar eclipse from Madras, OR Alan Sliski - solar eclipse from Salem, OR	October
10/12/2017	Tom Calderwood	"Building the One Hundred Inch Telescope - In Boston"	November
11/9/2017	Tom Lepisto and Jean LeVaux	"Howard LeVaux in Antarctica with IGY - 1959-1960"	December
12/14/2017	Peter Scherff	"Meteorites 101: What they are, where they come from & how we find them"	January

2016

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/14/2016	ATMoB member night	"Member Presentations Night Al Takeda - detailed description of the facilities at the ATMoB Clubhouse in Westford Bob Naeye - recent visits to the Mount Wilson, Griffith and Palomar Observatories, and the California Science Center Dick Koolish, Alan Sliski, and Ken Launie - summary of the Antique Telescope Society's (ATS) visit to the Lick (California (CA)), Chabot (CA), Stanford Solar (CA), Yerkes (Wisconsin) and Leiden (Netherlands) observatories	February
2/11/2016	Babak Tafreshi	"The World At Night"	March
3/10/2016	Marc Stowbridge	"The New Hampshire Astronomical Society Library Telescope Program"	April
4/14/2016	Steve Nadis	"From the Great Wall to the Great Collider: China and the Quest to Uncover the Inner Workings of the Universe"	May
5/12/2016	Michael Rudenko	"Minor Planet Center Operations"	June
6/9/2016	Bob Naeye	"Gravitational Wave Update"	July
7/14/2016	ATMoB member night	Member presentations Alan and Aaron Sliski - overview of the redeployment of the AAVSO Photometric All-Sky Survey (APASS) telescope system Phil Levine - photos from an ATMoB public outreach star party on Nantucket Mario Motta - update on a Harvard-Smithsonian (CfA) research project measuring the light curve of the disintegrating planetoid orbiting the white dwarf, WD1145+017	September
9/8/2016	Michael O'Shea	"#popscope Observing Outreach Program"	October
10/13/2016	Jim Zebrowski	"The Real Martian: Earth Explores the Red Planet"	November
11/10/2016	Peter Tyson	"The Making of Sky and Telescope Magazine"	December
12/8/2016	Andrew Vanderburg	"The Story of WD 1145+017 - Destruction of an Exoplanet"	January

2015

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/8/2015	Glenn Chaple	"Visual Observing of Variable Stars - An Addict's Story"	February
2/12/2015	Dr. Michael Clarage	"Understanding the Electric Sun Model, The Earth's Electrical Environment, and Electric Double Layers in Astronomy"	March
3/12/2015	Dr. Daniel Eisenstein	"Dark Energy and Cosmic Sound"	April
4/9/2015	Li Zeng	"Uncovering the Chemistry of Earth-Like Planets"	May
5/14/2015	Dr. Ryan Allured	"X-Ray Observatories & Optics"	June
6/11/2015	ATMoB member night	Annual meeting and member presentations Mario Motta - 3rd International Artificial Light at Night (ALAN) conference held in Quebec Bernie Voltz - updated the membership on the upcoming 2017 eclipse trip Penny Lucinian - personal radio astronomy project John Sheff - New Horizons planet Pluto mission	July
7/9/2015	Norman Sperling	"Development of the Astroscan Wide-Field Newtonian"	September
9/10/2015	Alan Sliski	"Restoration of a 1916 Warner & Swasey Telescope"	October
10/8/2015	Glenn Chaple	"Astro Humor, with Glenn Chaple"	November
11/12/2015	Kelly Beatty	"Pluto's Amazing Story"	December
12/10/2015	Dr. Stella Kafka	"Type Ia Supernova Progenitors"	January

2014

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/9/2014	Professor Karin Öberg	"Icy Origins: Snowlines During Star and Planet Formation"	February
2/13/2014			March
3/13/2014	Professor Max Tegmark	"Our Mathematical Universe"	April
4/10/2014	Dr. Justin Kasper	"Solar Probe Plus and SWEAP"	May
5/8/2014	Monica Young	"Black Holes and the Beast in Our Galaxy"	June
6/12/2014	ATMoB member night	Member presentations: "History Of the ATMoB" Anna Hillier - "Our Quest for the Perfect Clubhouse" John Reed - past thirty years since we acquired our then "dark sky site" in rural Westford, MA Paul Valleli - growth of amateur astronomy at the present Clubhouse	July
7/10/2014	ATMoB member night	Member presentations Mike Hill - talk on his 4 1/4" reflector rebuild Bruce Berger - update on our ATMoB Research and Imaging Observatory (ARIO) Steve Clougherty - reconstruction and installation of the 25 inch Dobsonian which is in the "Ed Knight" roll off observatory Nick Bealo - observatory he built for his high school Paul Valleli - "ATMoB participation in Operation Moonwatch"	September
9/11/2014	ATMoB members	"ATMoB's Direction Checkpoint Workshop"	October
10/9/2014	Dr. Peter Fritschel	"LIGO and Gravitational Waves & Detection"	November
11/13/2014	Dr. Arne Henden	"Variable Star Observing"	December
12/11/2014	Dr. Kelly E. Korreck	"Resolving the Sun's Hot Corona: High Resolution Solar Imaging in the Extreme Ultraviolet"	January

2013

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/10/2013	Dr Bradley Thomson	"Results of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)"	February
2/14/2013	Dr. Arne Henden	"Measuring the Unknown Universe"	March
3/14/2013	Dr. Taylor Perron	"Rain, Rivers and the Icy Landscape of Titan"	April
4/11/2013	Dr. Leon Golub	"A New View of the Solar Corona"	May
5/9/2013	Professor Jonathan E. Grindlay	"DASCH: Back t o the Future with the Harvard Plates"	June
6/13/2013	Jeffrey Dominick	"Haystack, Historically Speaking"	July
7/11/2013	ATMoB member night	"Member Night Mike Hill - telescope making project James Chamberlain - astrophotography on a modest budget Bruce Berger - ARIO (ATMoB Research and Imaging) Observatory which is nearing completion John Sheff - his website (www.bostonastronomy.net), information source about astronomy events in Boston Jim Gettys - CCD chip design Dick Koolish - ATMoBs participation in the June 21st Summer Solstice Festival held at Harvard Univ.	September
9/12/2013	Mario Motta	"A Day in the Life of a 32 Inch Telescope Mirror" (Italian trip to install mirror at the Schiaparelli Observatory)	October
10/10/2013	Glenn Chaple	"Double Stars"	November
11/14/2013	Dr. Thomas Dame	"Big Science with "Mini" Telescopes: Mapping the Galaxy from NYC, Cambridge, and Chile"	December
12/12/2013	Dr. Nelson Caldwell	"A Multi-Color Examination of the Andromeda Galaxy"	January

2012

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/12/2012	Dr. Steve Leman	"Searching for the Universe from Iron Mine"	February
2/9/2012	ATMoB member night	Member’s presentations and swap night Bob Naeye - report with slides of a trip to Chile held on September 21-29, 2011 Virginia Renehan - report on the Starlab Observatory (given to the ATMOB by the MIT Kavli Institute) Gerry Sussman - work done on the Schupmann telescope by Eric Johansson, John Blomquist, Phil Rounseville, and himself Mike Hill - how to make a mirror in a small apartment kitchen Ken Launie - the Steward Mirror Lab of The University of Arizona Alan Sliski - upgrade to a private observatory in Dover MA	March
3/8/2012	Professor Alyssa Goodman	"Interstellar Gas and Star Formation with Data Visualization"	April
4/12/2012	Dan Falk	"In Search of Time"	May
5/10/2012	Robert Naeye	"Transits of Venus"	June
6/14/2012	Timothy Barker	"Sky Pollution Rejection Filters and What They Reveal About Nebulae"	July
7/12/2012	ATMoB member night	Member presentations & swap night James Chamberlain - solar scopes and projection arrangements for viewing the transient of Venus 6/5 Bruce Berger - light weight optics Mario Motta - medical effects of light pollution Tom Calderwood - travel telescope Bruce Tinkler - observation of the Transient of Venus in Alaska	September
9/13/2012	Dennis diCicco	"A Mosaic of the Hydrogen Sky"	October
10/11/2012	Dr Bob Kirshner	"Measuring Supernovae Distances"	November
11/8/2012	Jim Hand	"American Triumph: Project Apollo"	December
12/13/2012	ATMoB member night	Australia 11/13/13 solar eclipse presentations Jerry and Julie Sussman Kelly Beatty Bob Naeye Mario Motta Bernie Volz AL Takeda Howard Levaux Bert Halstead	January

2011

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/14/2011	Dr. Mark Bautz	"Probing the Universe with Galaxy Clusters: New Windows from New Technologies"	February
2/10/2011	ATMoB member night	Member presentations and swap night Mario Motta - "Italian Observatories" Mike Hill - "The New ATMoB Workshop" Neil Fleming, Bruce Berger, Glenn Chaple - "ATMoB Observing Awards Program" Bernie Volz - "Total Solar Eclipse Trip Update"	March
3/10/2011	Dr. Giovanni Fazio	"Viewing the Universe with Infrared Eyes: The Spitzer Space Telescope"	April
4/14/2011	Dr. Sean Andrews	"Protoplanetary Disks and the Hunt for the Yougnest Exoplanets"	May
5/12/2011	Tom Calderwood	"An Astronomer Reads Thoreau"	June
6/9/2011	Bob Naeye	"The Origin of Everything: How Things Got to Be the Way They Are Right Now"	July
7/14/2011	ATMoB member night	Members presentations Joseph Rothchild - Bushnell Ares 5" Travel Telescope Mario Motta and Kelly Beatty - outdoor lighting and the International Dark Sky (IDA) standards Mario Motta - silvering of his 3" mirror	September
9/8/2011	Tom Field	"Real-Time Spectroscopy for Amateur Astronomers"	October
10/13/2011	Dr Alan Guth	"Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse?"	November
11/10/2011	Christopher Stubbs	"The Dark Energy Crisis and its impact on Fundamental Physics"	December
12/8/2011	Dr. Shep Doeleman	"The Event Horizon Telescope: Observing Black Holes with Schwarzschild-Radius Resolution"	January

2010

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/14/2010	Ruben Kier	"Best Targets for Astrophotography and What They Reveal About Our Universe"	February
2/11/2010	ATMoB members	Member presentation "Show and Tell" Mike Hill - building a 10-inch Newtonian, that was portable and on an equatorial fork mount Tom Calderwood - volunteering at the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket Gerry Sussman - involvement with Eric Johansson in "making the 6-inch Schupmann actually work" Mario Motta - recent modifications on his 32-inch, f/6 relay telescope	March
3/11/2010	Sara Seager	"Exoplanets and the Search for Habitable Worlds"	April
	Dr. Peter McCullough	techniques used to search for extrasolar planets, McCullough’s own XO planet project and how amateurs can assist the professionals in this field	May
5/13/2010	Bob Naeye	"Twenty Years in Space: The Hubble Space Telescope’s Greatest Achievements"	June
6/10/2010	Dr. Rosanne Di Stefano	"Supernovae, Lensing, and Other Transient Phenomena: What we learn from space, from the ground, and from theory"	July
7/8/2010	ATMoB member night	Member presentations and swap night Chuck Evans - the observatory he built at his house Mike Hill and Steve Clougherty - the functional completion of the Clam Shell Observatory at the clubhouse Tom Calderwood - his time as an astronomy volunteer at Acadia National Park in Maine Mario Motta - an update on his Wingaersheek Observatory	September
9/9/2010	Dr. Anna Frebel	"Stellar Archaeology: New Science With Old Stars"	October
10/14/2010	Julio Vannini	"Astronomy in a Small Nation"	November
11/11/2010	Tom Murphy	"Einstein, the Moon, and the Long-lost Soviet Lunar Rover: Testing Gravity with Lasers to the Moon"	December
12/9/2010	Dr. Grant H. Stokes	"Discovering Near-Earth Asteroids"	January

2009

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/8/2009	Peter Cheimets	Solar b XRT: The design and development of the X-Ray telescope for Hinode	February
2/12/2009	Dr. Russell F. Pinizzotto, PhD	The Colors of Stars	March
3/12/2009	ATMoB member night	Member presentations: "Show and Tel"l and swap table Paul Valleli - progress on his backyard observatory Mike Hill -10-inch Newtonian project Tom Janzen - digital astrophotography with a camera placed upon a German equatorial mount Dick Koolish - construction of a sundial at Robbins Park Mario Motta - impromptu presentation showing images from his visit to Alan Delman's home in Arizona	April
4/9/2009	Robert Benoit	Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)	May
5/14/2009	Robert Naeye	Mars in 3D!	June
6/11/2009	Dr. James Elliot	Occultations by Kuiper Belt Objects	July
7/9/2009	ATMoB member night	Member presentations & Mini-swap meet Bruce Berger - update on the Clubhouse workshop Peter Bealo- Science Museum in London opening a new exhibit called "Cosmos & Culture: How Astronomy has Shaped Our World" Ken Launie - talk on E.C. Pickering, astronomer and director of Harvard Observatory received an anonymous donation of $20,000, known as "The Gift of 1902"	September
9/10/2009	Marica Bartusiak	"The Day We Discovered the Universe"	October
10/8/2009	Jay Cross	"State of the Art Astronomy Circa 1540"	November
11/12/2009	Gary Jacobson, Bernie Volz, John Briggs, Paul Valleli and Bruce Berger	"The Occulation of Kuiper Belt Object 55636" reports from Mike Person of MIT and 5 ATMoB members who attempted to capture data from the occultation of the Kuiper Belt asteroid KB55636 on October 9, 2009"	December
12/10/2009	Patricia Udomprasert	WorldWide Telescope Ambassadors Program	January

2008

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/10/2008	Dr. Charles Lada	"The Search for Stellar Origins from Antiquity to the 21st Century"	February
2/14/2008	E. Samuel Palmer	history of the discovery of interstellar molecular clouds and his work using Harvard Observatory's millimeter-wave radio telescope on the roof above the Philips auditorium.	March
3/13/2008	Dr. William Waller	"At Home Among the Galaxies"	April
4/10/2008	Dr. Warren R. Brown	Hypervelocity Stars Ejected from the Galactic Center	May
5/8/2008	Dr. Sara Schechner	"The Adventures of Captain John Smith, Pocahontas, and a Sundial: Astronomy, Mathematics, and Power at the Time of Jamestown"	June
6/12/2008	Dr. Alan Marscher	"Jets from Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei"	July
7/10/2008	ATMoB member night	Member presentations and flea market Mario Motta - 32 inch relay telescope John Boudreau - planetary images John Sheff - NASA's planetary missions	September
9/11/2008	Robert Naeye	NASA's Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), recently renamed FERMI Gamma Ray Space Telescope	October
10/9/2008	Dr. Arne Henden	"Amateur Contributions in the Era of Surveys"	November
11/13/2008	Ken Launie	history of the telescope as well as reports from conferences celebrating the 400th anniversary	December
12/11/2008	Dr. Jonathan McDowell	Fifty years ago: The birth of NASA, 1958	January

2007

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/11/2007	Jim Foy (NSAAC) and John Boudreau (ATMoB)	astro-imaging	February
2/8/2007	Dr. Dan Fabricant	The Giant Magellan Telescope - description and its scientific mission.	March
3/8/2007	Dr. Daniel W.E. Green	"The History of the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams"	April
4/12/2007	Dr. Katharine Reeves	Solar Flare Observations Using the X-ray Telescope on Hinode	May
5/10/2007	Dr. A. Anthony Stark	"AST/RO and SPT: A Tale of Two Telescopes on the Antarctic Plateau"	June
6/14/2007	Bob Crelin and NELPAG	Light pollution and amateur astronomers.Discussion of current issues and efforts in the fight against outdoor light trespass/glare and against outdoor over-lighting	July
7/12/2007	ATMoB member night	Member presentations / Flea Market Virginia Renehan - read a message from ATMoB member Haldun Menali. He and Dick Parker (Hartford Club) are in Turkey putting on a mirror making workshop Dave Wilber - visit to the Mount Wilson Observatory Al Takeda - discussion of astrophotography with Canon 20D digital SLR Mike Hill - cleaning up and refurbishing the attic at the ATMoB clubhouse John Boudreau - showed a few of his astrophotography images Paul Valleli - Hubble image mosaic of Eta Carina and new 24 inch Richey-Cretien telescope at the Maria Mitchelle Observatory in Nantucket Fred Ward - new dome to replace his current one Bruce Berger presented a 30 second movie of the trial assembly that they performed in Fred's garage	September
9/13/2007	Neil Fleming	Astrophotography talk highlighting some of his images	October
10/11/2007	Dr. Lisa Kaltenegger	"How to Spot a Pale Blue Dot in the Night Sky - Signatures of Life on Extrasolar Planets"	November
11/8/2007	Dr. Robert A. Gonsalves	"Phase Diversity Imaging: Real Time Correction of the Atmosphere and Telescope"	December
12/13/2007	canceled due to snow storm		January

2006

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/12/2006	Dennis Di Cicco, Edwin Aquirre, and Imelda Joson	Total Solar Eclipses and the March 29th Eclipse	February
2/9/2006	Dr. David Latham	"The Search for Habitable Planets"	March
3/9/2006	Dr. Leon Golub	"Observing the X-ray Sun"	April
4/13/2006	ATMoB member night	Member presentations - total solar eclipse - Egypt, Turkey and Libya Al Takeda - Al-Salloum sun and eclipse photos Mario Motta - Egypt expedition travelogue Ken Launie - Egyptian expedition member pictures and Egyptian life Bert Halstead - Egyptian eclipse and pyramids Bob Naeye - Lybia with Sky and Telescope Paul Valleli - post eclipse image processing John Boudreau - planetary pictures Post meeting presentations: Jun Lao (Ohio) Sal LaRiccia Howard LeVaux	May
5/11/2006	Mario Motta and Scot Milligan	"The Wingaersheek Observatory and Telescope"	June
6/8/2006	Joshua Semeter	"Optical Remote Sensing of the Aurora Borealis"	July
7/13/2006	Mr. Robert Benoit	Robert Benoit - optical systems design and fabrication for aerospace applications Member presentations Paul Valleli - 11-minute video of Mario Motta being interviewed about light pollution Mario Motta - 32 inch assembly and first light with images Ross Barrow - Linkeos software and his 1st attempts at astrophotography Bob Naeye - 2 presentations Pollex has a planet that is 2.5 Jupiter's and has 590 day orbit. A paper in the journal Nature with proposal by the Univ. of Colorado and Northrop/Grummand to fly a mission to take a spectrum to find earth sized planets	September
9/14/2006	Jim and Rhoda Morris	Making of Galileo's Telescopes	October
10/12/2006	Dr. Hale Bradt	"The Instrumental Life of An X-Ray Astronomer: Chasing Neutron Stars and Black Holes"	November
11/9/2006	Dr. Owen Gingerich	"Planet Peril in Prague: What Happened to Pluto"	December
12/14/2006	Dr. Max Tegmark	"The History of Our Universe in One Hour"	January

2005

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/13/2005	Dr. Michael Mallary	"Our Improbable Universe. The Evolution of Primordial Energy into Mind"	February
2/10/2005	ATMoB members	Swap meet and member presentations Lew Gramer - Texas Star Party Mario Motta - new house/observatory and 32" glass blank Bob Naeye - update on the Huygens probe and landing on Titan	March
3/10/2005	Dr. Arne Henden	"The Amateurs Role in Professional Astronomy"	April
4/14/2005	Steven Hunt	doing research on meteors on the Atoll of Kwajalein	May
5/12/2005	David Charbonneau		June
5/12/2005	Bob Naeye	search for extra-solar planets, and the acceleration of their discoveries
6/9/2005	Todd Gross	"The Weather, how it affects our observing and imaging"	July
7/14/2005	ATMoB member night	Member presentations David Aucoin - Planetary Nebula's (not in July newsletter in meeting recap) Mario Motta presented by Scott Milligan - Update on the 32" telescope project Bruce Berger - Internet access from the clubhouse Paul Valleli - NEAF 2005, a visit to Vassar Observatory and Nantucket plate stacks Mike Hill - Glass Room update Joseph Rothchild - Counterbalanced tripod for a 6" scope Virginia Renehan - The Night Sky Network	September
9/8/2005	Eric Buehrens	"Planning and Building an Amateur Roll-Off Roof Observatory"	October
10/13/2005	Aaron Price	"Drinking From a Firehouse: Getting Astronomy News Online"	November
11/10/2005	David Tytell	"What's News in Planetary Science: Planets, Comets, Moons, and More"	December
12/8/2005	Bob Simcoe and Edward Los	Harvard College Observatory's glass plate collection	January

2004

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/8/2004		Show-and-Tell and Flea Market	February
2/12/2004	Glenn Chaple	variable star talk	March
3/11/2004	Robert Naeye	"Go Spirit! Go Opportunity!"	April
4/8/2004	Bob Simcoe	"Scanning the Historic Sky"	May
5/13/2004	Rich Nugent	"The Transits of Venus"	June
6/10/2004	Larry Candell	"The Mars Laser Communications Demonstration Program"	July
7/8/2004	Dan Falk	"Can the universe be understood in terms of a single theory -- a theory so concise it could fit on a T-shirt?"	September
9/9/2004	Tye Brady	spoke about Draper's Inertial Stellar Compass (ISC)	October
10/14/2004	Dr. James Elliot	topic of observing occultation’s of Kuiper Belt Objects and how amateurs can help	November
11/11/2004	Dr. Kenneth Janes	"One hundred and fifteen years of astronomy at Boston University"	December
12/9/2004	Ed Ting	"The Best and The Worst: A serious (and not so serious) look at equipment available today for the amateur astronomer"	January

2003

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/9/2003	Dr. Brian Marsden	"First discussed a history of observations for objects beyond Neptune, and how various objects (Ceres, Chiron) had been identified as the nth planet orbiting our sun Also talked about first Trans-Neptunian object and described the characteristics and taxonomy of the various objects being discovered in that region of our solar system"	February
2/13/2003	ATMoB member night	Show and Tell and Flea Market Paul Manning - portrayal of Galileo Lou Cohen - description of his home observatory Max Ben Aarron - descsription of Olbers Paradox Carl Hein - presented on the current state of Light Emmitting Diode (LED) technology Paul Valleli and Bruce Berger down at Winter Star Party – Key West, FL Bruce and Dick Koolish - pictures of the Clark Refractor Refurbishment project Mario Motta - collection of images and experimentation with color	March
3/13/2003	Dr. Supriya Chakrabarti	"SPIDR: A Boston Area Small Explorer Mission"	April
4/10/2003	Joe Caruso	"The Geologic History of the Moon"	May
5/8/2003	Dr. Martha Hazen	History of the plates, how they were made and used, how they are being used today, plans to digitize them, and more	June
6/12/2003	Ron Dantowitz	"High Resolution Imaging Techniques"	July
7/10/2003	ATMoB member night	Show-and-Tell and Flea Market Joseph Rothchild - experience at the Sky Watchers Inn in Benxon, AZ Mario Motta - plans for new home including observatory Mike Hill - home observatory and solution to local light pollution Gary Walker - experiences with SBIG STV auto guider Charlie McDonald - work he is pursuing with the Project Astro group involving Gamma Ray bursters Hung Pham - latest version of Lunar Map Pro, showing available new features	September
9/11/2003	Willie Soon	"Climate History of the Last 1000 Years: What do we know and what we don’t"	October
10/9/2003	Marc T. Daigle	overview of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) program	November
11/13/2003	Joshua Roth	"A New Chapter in Cosmology: Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe"	December
12/11/2003	David Aguilar	"Telescopes I've Known And Why We Study Astronomy"	January

2002

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/10/2002	Dr. Sun Kwok	Cosmic Butterflies: The Colourful Mysteries of Planetary Nebulae	February
2/14/2002	Mike Hill and Ed Los	"Monitoring Solar Flare Activity with a VLF Radio Receiver (Mike) The McWilliams Magnetometer (Ed)"	March
3/14/2002	Dr. Jay Pasachoff	The Sun and Solar Eclipses	April
4/11/2002	Dr. Josh Winn	Gravitational Lenses
	Brian Lula	An Odyssey In Telescope Making	June
6/13/2002	Frank Sienkiewicz	MicroObservatory Online Telescopes for Science Education	July
7/11/2002	ATMoB member night	Show-and-Tell and Flea Market Bruce Gerhard - demonstrated the GlareBuster Mike Hill - demonstrated a spot light shield based on a Sky and Telescope Gary Walker and Lou Cohen - pictures from Hawaii trip for the AAVSO 2002 Spring Meeting Dan Feldkhun - pictures from Baxter State Park Camping trip Michael Carnes - travel scope and modified tripod	September
9/12/2002	Dr. George R. Ricker	Gamma-ray Bursts and the High Energy Transient Explorer	October
10/10/2002	Dr. Leonard L. Amburgey	Discovery of NEO 2000NM By An Amateur Observer	November
11/14/2002	Lew Gramer	The Lion's Last Roar: Observing the last Leonid Storm from New England	December
12/12/2002	Prof. Alyssa Goodman	current understanding of how the interstellar medium forms stars	January

2001

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/11/2001	Dr. Steve Murray	The Chandra X-ray Observatory - What is it, and What is it Seeing?	February
2/8/2001	Dr. Alois Mair	The Storage of Light	March
3/8/2001	Dr. Robert P. Stefanik	SETI and the Search for Low Mass Companions to Stars at Oak Ridge Observatory	April
4/12/2001	Paul Horowitz	FLASH! Searching for Alien Lasers Using Optical SETI	May
5/10/2001	John W. Briggs	George Ellery Hale's Magnificent Solar Telescopes	June
6/14/2001	Gerald Jay Sussman	The Magellan I Guider-Probe Controller	July
7/12/2001	ATMoB member night	Flea Market/Swap Table and Show-and-Tell Stellafane preparation	September
9/13/2001	Dr. Avi Loeb	The First Stars and their Effect on the Universe	October
10/11/2001	Dr. Bryan Gaensler	Champagne Supernova in the Sky	November
11/8/2001	Fred Baganoff	Unveiling the Galactic Center with the Chandra Xray Observatory	December
12/13/2001	Dr. Jeremy Heyl	Severe Weather on Neutron Stars	January

2000

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/13/2000	member night	Mario Motta - demonstrated homemade filter wheel Bob Collara - showed slides of the fabrication of a 12-inch flat Bob Cohen - showed slides of the grinding machine had made for the clubhouse Peter Bruckner - plans for the new ATMoB roll-off observatory David Aucoin - showcased his new 13"" dobsonian Gerry Sussman - dual design guider of a twin 6.5 telescope located at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile Howard Levaux - experiences viewing the transit of Mercury from Key West Florida	February
2/10/2000	Tom Calderwood	"Adventures in Chandra­Land"	March
3/9/2000	Zack Pujic	"Observing Jupiter"	April
4/13/2000	David Lunt	"Design and use considerations for ultra-narrowband filters in solar observations"	May
5/11/2000	Kevin Manning	design and construction of his club's observatory	June
6/8/2000	Dr Philip Morrison	"Many Far-off Planets - and Maybe their Astronomers"	July
7/13/2000	ATMoB members	Bernie Volz - update on solar eclipse trip Gary Jacobson - home made binoculars using two 4 1/2"" reflectors mounted to dobsonian base Gary Walker - tips on how to build an observatory Lew Gramer - spoke about telescopic observations of meteors Mario Motta - presented samples of his astrophotography	September
9/14/2000	Dr. Robert Donahue	solar astronomy	October
10/12/2000	David Malin	Astrophotography	November
11/9/2000	R.P. Hale	In Caxtolcuaúhtli Tlatoliztli - A Talk on the Aztec Calendar Round	December
12/14/2000	Dr. Andrea Prestwich	Making Monsters? Chandra observations of starburst galaxies reveal mid-sized black holes	January

1995

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/12/1995	member night	Kevin McCarthy - fabricating Schmidt cameras Paul Ciccetti - his technique for drawing lunar features (published in Sky & Telescope) Ken Launie - slides of the Antique Telescope Society's Octoer, 1994 meeting in San Francsico Howard Levaux - slides of his eclipse trip	February
2/9/1995	Ursula Marvin	"A ramble through meteoritics from 1794 to 1994"	March
3/9/1995	Dr. Margaret Geller	"So Many Galaxies ... So Little Time"	April
4/13/1995	Dr. Lawrence Marscall	"The Supernova Story"	May
5/11/1995	Dr. James Moran	studying masers in regions of star formation	June
6/8/1995	Dr. Laurence R. Young	medical effects of spaceflight	July
7/13/1995	member night	Marion Hochuli - photographs of the Mir-Space Shuttle passing, attempts to locate Pluto Dick Koolish - showed a 1932 eclipse viewer Joseph Rothchild - observing aids he has implemented to augment his viewing Vlad Vudler and John Reed - photos of the Mir-Shuttle pass over taken from Boston's Museum of Science Mario Motta - slides of telescope making that was part of the partnership in Astronomy program in the Lynnfield School. He also showed slides of deep space objects he took through his 32-inch telescope Gary Walker - presented and explained variable star data he and others had gathered via CCD imaging	September
9/14/1995	Heidi Hammel	"The Catastrophic Collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter"	October
10/12/1995	Dr. Rudy Schild	"The Universe is my Telescope: Gravitational Lenses and Microlensing"	November
11/9/1995	Dr. Albert Cameron	"Violence in the Early Solar System: Formation of the Moon and Mercury"	December
12/14/1995	Dr. John Wood	CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW: "Venus after the Magellan Mission"	Not Available

1994

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/13/1994	Daniel W. E. Green	"Reflections on a bridght fireball seen last August over New England"	February
2/10/1994	Dr. Jay M. Pasachoff	"The sun and solar eclipses"	March
3/10/1994	member night	Dick Koolish - information about May 10, 1994 solar eclipse Ed Dougherty - videos of computer generated simulations of the solar eclipse and Shoemaker/Levy-Jupiter Mike Mattei/Eric Johannson - observing the Shoemaker/Levy-Jupiter impact Kevin McCarthy - talked about his compact and portable Desk Top Polishing machine Gary Walker - CCD image of the Wales Tail section of the Horseehad nebula	April
4/14/1994	Brian Schmidt	"Measuring Extragalactic Distances with Supernovae"	May
5/12/1994	member night	Ted Poulos - downloading satellite images using a home-built antenna to computer Mario Motta - building his 32-inch telescope in his NH observatory Ed Dougherty - video of annular eclipse from Gary Walker's NH observing site Peter Bealo - solar and lunar eclipse photos Bernie Volz - slides on last total lunar eclipse and aurora as seen in Ashland and the Kitt Observatory Vlad Vudler - annular eclipse photos Joe Rothchild - video of the annular eclipse Gary Walker - astrophotos using CCD	June
6/9/1994	Steve O'Meara	"Atmospheric Phenomena"	July
7/14/1994	member night	"not very much specific information, but included: annular and lunar eclipse photos, CCD images of jupiter and other astrophotographs Rick Berman - spectroscope he built"	September
9/8/1994	Kelly Beatty	"After the Crash" collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter	October
10/13/1994	Robert Kirshner	Supernovae Intensive Study (talk on using supernovae to detennine the size of the universe)	November
11/10/1994	James Cornell	"Selling Astronomy: Public Information, Outreach, and Education"	December
12/8/1994	member night	"Tales from the November 1994 solar eclipse" Dan Green and Steve O'Meara - Bolivia Bernie Volz and Mario Motta Dennis diCicco - Sky & Telescope Chris Hallas	January

1993

Meeting Date	Speaker	Presentation topic	Summary on "Star Fields"
1/14/1993	member night	Ed Dougherty, Peter Bealo, Bob Heller - vacuum evaporator project French & Associates (John Gallagher, Jack Frech and John Mosberger) - telescope project in Lynn Tal Mental - slides of the Lynn site Mike Mattei - drawing Mars and current favorable viewing of Mars Mario Motta - Summary of 18' observatory ""from woods to usable observatory in 4 months Gerry Sussman - attempts to collimate one of the 2.4 meter mirrors at Kitt Peak	February
2/11/1993	Dr. Henry M. Pollock III	Vision at Night	March
3/11/1993	Dr. Gerald J. Sussman	"The Chaotic Motion of the Soalr System"	April
4/8/1993	Dr. Rudy Schild	"Gravitational Lenses"	May
5/13/1993	Scott Milligan and David Kelly	"Optical testing for amateur telescope makers"	June
6/10/1993	Elizabeth Gavicchi	"Painting the Moon"	July
7/1/1993	member night	Tal Mentall - showed video of Frontline interview of him at clubhouse Gary Walker - what can and can't be done with a CCD camera and telescopes Ed Doughtery - discussion about pixels and film resolution	September
9/9/1993	Dr. Owen Gingerich	The Great Copernicus Chase	October
10/14/1993	Dr. Charles Lada	Man's quest to understand the nature and origm of the sun and stars	November
11/11/1993	Dr. Shadia Habbai	"Temperature Structure, Spatial Structure, and Variability of the Emission in the Solar Corona"	December
12/9/1993	Gerald Sussman	"Repairing a 2.4m telescope" inability to collimate and subsequent repair of the primary mirror's mounting systems of the 2.4 meter Hiltner telescope at Kitt Peak	January