The regular club meeting for the San Juan Stargazers will be held on Thursday, September 29, at the Community United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall on 434 Lewis Street. Please use the parking lot door so the front doors may remain locked.
At 6pm there is a social time with coffee, tea, etc. This month’s program beginning at 7pm, is Bob Mitchell who worked on the James Webb Space Telescope. He did his first presentation to us on the James Webb in 2013. He will be speaking again just about the wonders of the actual telescope. It is perhaps the most perfect “machine” ever produced by humans. It is now one million miles from Earth and cannot be visited by astronauts as the Hubble was.
It had to be “perfect” before it left Earth… and its performance so far is flawless. It had 344 single points of failure that would have scrapped the entire mission. It is an amazing story of how humans achieved “perfection.”
Bob Mitchell is an engineer and amateur astronomer, so his talk will be about the development and construction of the telescope and the problems that had to be over-come. All students are encouraged to attend. The presentation will NOT be too sophisticated for people to understand.
COVID is not over, and we are encouraging people to wear masks for our meeting. Let’s be safe, not sorry.