Sam Miller On Sunday, Feb. 15, the SaddleBrooke Skygazers Astronomy Club will present Father Paul Gabor, an astronomer with the Vatican Observatory Research Group at the University of Arizona. The program presentation will be at the DesertView Theater, 39900 S. Clubhouse Drive, at 7 p.m. Father Gabor’s presentation will explain that the Earth is starting…
Sam Miller On Sunday evening, Jan. 11, the SaddleBrooke Skygazers Astronomy Club will present Dr. Mathieu Renzo, assistant professor, University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory. The program presentation will be at the DesertView Theater, 39900 S. Clubhouse Drive, at 7 p.m. Dr Renzo’s presentation will focus on massive binary stars and the resulting core-collapse supernovae. Mathieu…
Sam Miller The SaddleBrooke Skygazers Astronomy Club is pleased to host Father Christopher Corbally, an astronomer with the Vatican Observatory Research Group, on Sunday, Dec. 7. The program presentation will be at the DesertView Theater, 39900 S. Clubhouse Drive, at 7 p.m. Father Corbally will describe how binary star systems obviously display different behavior across…
Ben Eisenstein Many residents of San Manuel turned their eyes to the night sky on April 23 as the San Manuel Community Center hosted a Star Party, organized by the SaddleBrooke Skygazers and the SaddleBrooke Ranch Astronomy Club. As part of a joint outreach effort, the two astronomy clubs brought telescopes, star charts, and plenty…
Sam Miller The Southern Pinal County area is fortunate to have a reasonably dark nighttime sky to view the stars and other amazing objects. The Pinal County Board of Supervisors and other governments around the world have proclaimed April 21-28 as International Dark Sky Week in which communities worldwide celebrate the opportunity to view the…
Sam Miller On Sunday evening, Jan. 12, 2025, the SaddleBrooke SkyGazers Astronomy Club will present Christa DeCoursey, a fourth-year PhD student at the University of Arizona and a member of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) team. The Program presentation will be at the DesertView Theater, 39900 S. Clubhouse Drive,…
Sam Miller Program note: This Skygazers program meeting is on Saturday evening, as opposed to the normal Sunday evening. On Saturday, Dec. 7, the SaddleBrooke Skygazers Astronomy Club will present Dr. Erika Hamden, a professor of astrophysics and director of the University of Arizona Space Institute. The program presentation will be at the DesertView Theater,…
Sam Miller The SaddleBrooke Skygazers Astronomy Club is pleased to host Dr. David Iadevaia, a professor of astronomy and physics at Pima College, on Sunday, Feb. 18, at the DesertView Performing Arts Center, 39900 S. Clubhouse Drive, at 7 p.m. In this talk, Professor Iadevaia will discuss slitless spectroscopy and how to collect useful astronomical…
Sam Miller The SaddleBrooke Skygazers Astronomy Club is pleased to host Dr. Azalee Bostroem, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory, on Sunday, March 10, at the DesertView Theater, 39900 S. Clubhouse Drive, at 7 p.m. In this talk, Dr. Bostroem will discuss her work on projects to characterize the massive…
Sam Miller The SaddleBrooke Skygazers Astronomy Club is pleased to host Dr. Kevin Hainline, an assistant research professor at the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory, on Sunday, Jan. 21, at the DesertView Theater, 39900 S. Clubhouse Drive, at 7 p.m. In this talk, UA astronomy professor Dr. Hainline will discuss the first year of science…