Please join the Mt. Diablo Astronomical Society on January 28 for our general meeting featuring Dr. Gaspard Duchene, Associate Researcher and Lecturer at UC Berkeley, who will discuss the methods used to obtained the first images of planets around other stars. Dr. Duchene also will review the development of techniques and instruments over the past few years that have been used to perform large-scale surveys of hundreds of nearby stars.
The meeting starts at 7:15 p.m. with a short “What’s Up” presented by MDAS member Richard Ozer, who will talk about star parties and other viewing events coming up in 2020. Our monthly meetings are held at the Lindsay Wildlife Experience, Community Room, 1931 First Avenue, Walnut Creek, CA 94597.
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