The Stockton Astronomical Society (SAS) meets on the second Thursday of the month in the Olson Hall, Room 120 at the University of the Pacific at 7:30 pm. Visitors are welcome.

    A monthly star party is usually held on a Saturday near a new moon.

Coming Up     [view SAS Sky Calendar  (126.1KB PDF file) March 2014]

Saturday, March 1 -- New Moon
Saturday, March 1 at sunset -- High Altitude Star Party
Friday, March 7 at 7:00 pm -- Sky Tours at Delta College -- (Athletic-1 parking lot)
Saturday, March 8 at 6:00 pm -- Public Star Party at Oak Grove Regional Park
Sunday, March 9 at 2:00 am -- Daylight Savings Time begins
Thursday, March 13 at 7:30 pm -- Regular Meeting of SAS in Olson Hall, Room 120, at UOP
Sunday, March 16 -- Full Moon
Saturday, March 22 at 10:00 am -- ATM Workshop
Saturday, March 22 at sunset -- Highway 4 Star Party - OR -
Saturday, March 22 at sunset -- Pardee Observation Point Star Party
Saturday, March 29 at sunset -- High Altitude Star Party
Sunday, March 30 -- New Moon

SAS News

SAS March 13th Meeting

Stockton Astronomical Society presents:

Dr. Mandeep Gill

"Cosmology from Gravitational Lensing
--OR-- How Prof. Einstein Can Help Us Solve the Grandest Mystery in Modern-Day Physics"

An amazing amount about what we currently believe to be the primary ingredients of our Universe - 'normal' matter, dark matter, and dark energy -- can be learned from careful studies of the deflection and distortion of images of galaxies by intervening matter distributions.

Our prediction for the naive level of dark energy is off by 128 orders of magnitude (!) -- clearly one of the grandest of all mysteries in astrophysics (and physics in general) today. I will define all these arcane terms, and then try to show why we are at an incredibly promising point for elucidating many of these mysteries in the coming years.

Everyone enjoys being in on the story as the protagonists solve a mystery once in a while, so sit back and relax at this peek at how we might get some key insight into this particular one in the near future!

...Dennis LeClert, Program Director

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