The Star Partyers of New Mexico
They come for the darkness and stay for the celestial spectacle.
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They come for the darkness and stay for the celestial spectacle.
The Stamford Museum & Nature Center (SM&NC) marked a major milestone in its history this week as it took the first step to relocate its historic Gregory-Maksutov Telescope to the Astronomical Lyceum, a historical telescope museum in Magdalena, New Mexico.
In a lavishly illustrated presentation, John W. Briggs of New Mexico will describe his year-long experience living at the Geographic South Pole while working for the Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica. In preparation for this at Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago, John was a team member building a 24-inch infrared telescope and … Continue reading "An Antarctic Odyssey: Winter-Over at the South Pole Station"