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Upcoming events

    • March 21, 2024
    • 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
    • In person at FURMAN UNIVERSITY as well as virtually on Zoom. Link to join the meeting will be sent when you register for the event. Links will be on the bottom of your confirmation email.
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    NOTE: This meeting will be in person at FURMAN UNIVERSITY, not at the Science Center. Location and Map are listed below:


    Abstract: 

    The stellar graveyard in the Milky Way Galaxy includes the remains of massive stellar explosions, often giving birth to a highly magnetized, rapidly rotating compact stellar core, a pulsar. Energetic pulsars may form a pulsar wind nebula (PWN) through the conversion of rotational energy into a strongly magnetized, relativistic particle outflow. PWNe make up most of the very high energy (VHE, E > 100GeV) Galactic source population detected by Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs). This VHE emission is generated from the interaction of the most energetic, massive particles known, cosmic rays (CRs). Therefore, PWNe may be responsible for producing Galactic CRs with energy up to ~ 1PeV. The Fermi-LAT is the most sensitive instrument observing the lower-energy (E < 100GeV) gamma-ray sky, where many PWNe are expected to peak. Fermi-LAT data can provide important constraints on the acceleration mechanisms and thus the ability to contribute to the Galactic CR flux. The results of a systematic search to identify PWNe using the Fermi-LAT is presented in addition to a population study exploring evolutionary trends of varying characteristics to guide future PWN surveys.


    Speaker:  

    Dr Jordan L Eagle

    Jordan EagleJordan Eagle is a recent PhD graduate from Clemson University, who also completed a predoctoral fellowship in her final three years of her degree at the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Eagle's primary interests focus on high energy astrophysics and the origins of the most massive, energetic particles called cosmic rays. Using data from X- and Gamma-ray space telescopes including Chandra, XMM-Newton, and the Fermi-Large Area Telescope, Eagle studies the descendants of massive supernova explosions such as pulsar wind nebulae and supernova remnants to determine their capability to generate cosmic rays. Eagle continues these research efforts as a NASA postdoctoral program fellow at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

     

    LOCATION:

    We will meet in a  classroom in Plyler Hall 222 in the Townes Science Center.  Visitors can park in the South Chapel Lot, which is the parking lot between the Daniel Chapel and the football stadium (park closer to the chapel side – see attached map, follow the red arrow).  The building is across the Mall from the parking lot.  The classroom is on the second floor; there is stair and elevator access near the classroom.


    • April 13, 2024
    • 6:30 PM - 11:30 PM
    • Dark Sky Site
    Registration is closed

    The April Star Party will be held at our Dark Site/Observatory.  Sunset is at 7:54 pm and gates will open at 6:30 pm  Directions are available to members after you login to the Website.  They can be found under the "Events" heading at the top  of the page. 

    As always we will make a weather call as soon as we can.

    Notes: 

    We will follow Furman's safety protocols which means masks are not required outdoors and are optional when indoors.

    Smoking is not permitted on University grounds inside the fenced in area.





Past events

March 16, 2024 March Star Party - CANCELLED
February 18, 2024 February Star Party CANCELLED
February 15, 2024 Electronically Assisted Astronomy, comparing the SeeStar S50 to 3 other electronic telescopes
January 18, 2024 My Journey Into Astronomy
January 13, 2024 January Star Party
December 21, 2023 December Meeting and Holiday Party
November 16, 2023 Member Feature Night
October 19, 2023 Black Holes and Revelations
September 21, 2023 What's in a discovery?
August 17, 2023 What If There Was No Moon
July 20, 2023 The Dark Side of Light Pollution
June 15, 2023 What's in a discovery?
May 18, 2023 MWU! – Astrophotography of the Multiwavelength Universe
April 20, 2023 Probing Nearby Active Galaxies: Distances, Masses, Dark Matter, and Black Holes
March 16, 2023 The James Webb Space Telescope Mission
February 16, 2023 Practical Astronomy Topics : Gear Session
January 19, 2023 How to see a forming planet
December 15, 2022 December Meeting and Holiday Party
November 17, 2022 Using Microbes and Prisons for the Settlement of Space
October 20, 2022 Interstellar Interlopers
September 15, 2022 From the Laboratory to the Moon: the Life of George R. Carruthers
August 18, 2022 Engineering Milky Way Photography
July 12, 2022 Celebrating the James Webb Space Telescope's First Images
June 16, 2022 Astronomy on the High Seas: The True Adventures of a Viking Resident Astronomer
May 19, 2022 NASA's Lucy Mission - First Exploration of the Trojan Asteroids
April 21, 2022 The Mysterious Great Dimming of Betelgeuse
March 17, 2022 Phaethon and the Geminids: How Asteroids Fall Apart
February 17, 2022 Simplify Astrophotography with the ZWO ASIAIR Pro
January 20, 2022 The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
December 04, 2021 December Star Party
October 21, 2021 Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
September 16, 2021 How galaxies are influenced in the Universe
August 19, 2021 The Formation of Planets: Progress, Problems, and Prospects
June 17, 2021 Lucy and Europa Clipper: The Next NASA Missions to Jupiter's Orbit
May 20, 2021 Arne Henden-Variable Stars and minor planet astrometry
March 18, 2021 March Meeting: PLUTO OUR DISTANT COUSIN
February 18, 2021 The Human Cosmos
January 21, 2021 Planet Patrol: A NASA Citizen Science Program to Discover New Exoplanets
January 16, 2021 Star Party-Jan is cancelled due to Covid-19 risk
December 17, 2020 The Latest Gravitational Wave Events
November 19, 2020 November Club Meeting: Long Period Variable (LPV) Stars in Globular Clusters
November 13, 2020 Under One Sky 2020 Global Conference-International Dark Sky
October 15, 2020 David Moffett-Strange Stellar Remnants
October 01, 2020 Galileo and the Science Deniers
September 17, 2020 Virtual Tour of the World Largest Meteorite Collection
August 20, 2020 Josh Palmer - Planetary and ISS Photography
July 16, 2020 Club Monthly Meeting - July
June 18, 2020 June Monthly Club Meeting
May 21, 2020 May Club Monthly Meeting
April 24, 2020 Livestream Star Party - Whipple Observatory
April 23, 2020 April Club Monthly Meeting- Will be on-line
April 23, 2020 Southern Star Astronomy Convention - Canceled
April 19, 2020 International Dark Sky Week
April 18, 2020 Star Party April-Canceled
March 21, 2020 The March Star Party is canceled
March 19, 2020 March Club Monthly Meeting is Cancelled
March 04, 2020 Special Presentation : MONSTERS IN THE COSMIC SEA
February 22, 2020 Star Party February
February 20, 2020 February Club Monthly Meeting -- Canceled due to weather
February 10, 2020 Seeds in Space
January 25, 2020 Star Party
January 21, 2020 Project Artemis-Forward to the Moon
January 16, 2020 January Club Monthly Meeting
November 23, 2019 Star Party
November 21, 2019 November RMA Club Meeting
November 14, 2019 November RMA Board Meeting
October 05, 2019 Star Party Rain Date
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