Our next General Assembly meeting includes featured speaker Rob Pettengill, whose topic will be: Big Astronomy in Chile, the 2019 ACEAP Expedition.

Chile hosts both great observatory engines of astronomical discovery and spectacular conditions for amateur astronomy and astrophotography. For five years the NSF funded ACEAP, Astronomy in Chile Educator Ambassadors Program, gives a group of astronomy educators, planetarium personnel, and amateur astronomers back stage access to the great observatories in Chile. The 2019 trip included Gemini, AURA, and LSST at Cerro Pachón, two nights at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, and the ALMA Array Operations Site, and an overnight stay at the ALMA Operations Support Facility. We also sampled two of the over a hundred astro-tourist observatories in Chile.

Rob will share the trip in images with insights into the lives of the amazing American, European, Japanese, and Chilean astronomers and technicians that make the new discoveries possible.

For more information, including time, date, and location, please click here: General Assembly meeting event