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Date & Time: April 18, 2024 12:00pm
Location: County Gallery at SLCHA or Email carlene@slcha.org for Zoom Link

Presented by Aileen O’Donohue. Download the flyer here.

$5 Suggested Donation ~ Members Free!

This is a hybrid program. If you plan to attend online, please contact carlene@slcha.org to receive the Zoom link.

After the excitement of the total solar eclipse has passed, what events are going on to keep us engaged with the sky? Join Aileen as she talks about evening constellations, motions of the planets, and other events to watch for through the spring and summer along with interesting historical tidbits, including how a total solar eclipse influenced the creation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.

Aileen A. O’Donoghue is a professor of physics at St. Lawrence University, teaching both physics and astronomy. She received her B.S. at Fort Lewis College and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. Aileen’s research is primarily in radio astronomy and she currently studies galaxies using observations from the Arecibo and Green Bank radio telescopes.