NEAF 2023 LIVE from Rockland Community College

NEAF 2023 LIVE from the Rockland Community College

Northeast Astronomy Forum & Space Expo BACK LIVE April 15 & 16 2023 NEAF is a world-renowned symposium for astronomy and space enthusiasts. Held just outside of New York City, at the RCC campus of the State University of NY, it is the world’s prëeminent conference for award-winning Talks, Workshops, Classes, and Seminars. It’s an annual gathering of more than 4,000 professionals, amateurs, educators, and students all coming together to share interests, ideas, and passions. Additionally, NEAF brings together over 120 vendors and exhibitors from around the world, representing every major manufacturer and dealer in the business, which also makes it one of the largest trade shows and collaborative venues of its kind in the world, not to mention an enthusiast’s shopping paradise for all your astronomy gear needs. Started in 1991 by the Rockland Astronomy Club as an outreach project, NEAF quickly grew into a world-renowned meeting place for amateurs and professionals to gather and share ideas through lectures, workshops, Pro/Am conferences, classes, and informal gatherings. For over thirty years, NEAF is a true ‘Forum’ of interest for anyone who has gazed upward to the night sky and found a curiosity to understand the cosmos that lies beyond our own pale blue dot. NEAF Talks is held throughout the course of the conference in the beautiful 600-seat Performing Arts Center on campus. Each year NEAF Talks searches the globe for the most relevant personalities who are making space, science, and astronomy history to bring you an all-star line-up of amazing guests. Nowhere else can you find such an exciting array of programs brought together in one place and at one time. If Space and Astronomy interest you, then attending NEAF is a must. Visit - www.NEAFExpo.com for more information or to buy tickets. NEAF and NEAF Talks- supporting science and astronomy education for over a quarter century.

Northeast Astronomy Forum & Space Expo BACK LIVE April 15 & 16 2023 NEAF is a world-renowned symposium for astronomy and space enthusiasts. Held just outside of New York City, at the RCC campus of the State University of NY, it is the world’s prëeminent conference for award-winning Talks, Workshops, Classes, and Seminars. It’s an annual gathering of more than 4,000 professionals, amateurs, educators, and students all coming together to share interests, ideas, and passions. Additionally, NEAF brings together over 120 vendors and exhibitors from around the world, representing every major manufacturer and dealer in the business, which also makes it one of the largest trade shows and collaborative venues of its kind in the world, not to mention an enthusiast’s shopping paradise for all your astronomy gear needs. Started in 1991 by the Rockland Astronomy Club as an outreach project, NEAF quickly grew into a world-renowned meeting place for amateurs and professionals to gather and share ideas through lectures, workshops, Pro/Am conferences, classes, and informal gatherings. For over a quarter-century, NEAF the true ‘Forum’ of interests for anyone who has gazed upward to the night sky and found a curiosity to understand the cosmos that lies beyond our own pale blue dot. NEAF Talks is held throughout the course of the conference in the beautiful 600 seat Performing Arts Center on campus. Each year NEAF Talks searches the globe for the most relevant personalities who are making space, science and astronomy history to bring you an all-star line-up of amazing guests. Nowhere else can you find such an exciting array of programs brought together in one place and at one time. If Space and Astronomy interest you, then attending NEAF is a must. Visit - www.NEAFExpo.com for more information or to buy tickets. NEAF and NEAF Talks- supporting science and astronomy education for over a quarter century.

Filmed April 2022 A new meteor shower for May. Joe Rao explains how Comet Schwassman-Wachmann 3 first discovered in 1930 and its subsequent breakup in 1995 may bring us a new meteor shower in May of 2022. Who is Joe Rao? JOE RAO is the eight-time Emmy nominated meteorologist and on-air personality. In addition to his on-air fame, Joe is also an avid amateur astronomer. He has co-led several eclipse expeditions and served as an onboard meteorologist for three eclipse cruises. He is also an Associate and Guest Lecturer at the Hayden Planetarium, a Contributing Editor for S&T magazine, and also writes for Space.com, Natural History magazine, and the Farmers’ Almanac. NEAF Talks brings you the best from the annual NEAF Space & Astronomy conference which is held just outside of New York City at the RCC campus of the State University of NY. The Northeast Astronomy Forum is in its 25th year and is a world-renowned symposium that annually searches the globe for the most relevant personalities who are making space, science, and astronomy history today. Now through NEAF Talks online, these outstanding lectures are available to classrooms, universities, professionals, and the world at large free of charge. Visit RocklandAstronomy.com\NEAF for more information or to learn how to see NEAF live. NEAF Talks- supporting science and astronomy education for a quarter-century, now free to the world via the web. Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Northeast-Astronomy-Forum-Space-Expo-504029046447061/

Filmed April 2020 Who is Jani Radebaugh? JANI RADENBAUGH is a planetary scientist who specializes in field studies of planets. She’s a regular presence on the Science/Discovery program How the Universe Works, the NASA Unexplained Files, and other BBC and Nova programs. She is an Associate Team Member of the Cassini RADAR instrument and is a Science Team Member for the newly selected Dragonfly rotorcraft lander mission to Saturn’s moon Titan. She was also involved in the Galileo Mission, the Io Volcanoes Observer mission proposal, and the Median project for Mars. Professor Radebaugh believes exploring Earth is our best chance at fully understanding the other planets in our solar system. She travels far and wide with her Brigham Young University geology students to find and study unique landscapes. She explores the big deserts of the world, such as the Saharan, Arabian, and Namib deserts, as well as the Argentinian Altiplano and Iran’s Lut desert to study giant sand dunes and wind-carved ridges similar to features on Titan, Mars, Venus, and Pluto. She visits the lava lakes of the world, such as those in the Ethiopian Afar valley and Vanuatu in the southwest Pacific, to compare them with active lava lakes of Jupiter’s moon Io.  Saturn’s largest moon Titan, as seen by the Cassini mission, is an Earth-like world in many ways, having river channels, lakes, vast sand dunes, and a nitrogen-rich, dense atmosphere. Yet the temperature is 90 degrees above absolute zero, the surface liquid is methane, the crust is water ice, and the dunes are made of organic sands. Sometimes conditions may be right such that complex organic materials, such as in the sand dunes, can combine with liquid water, thus being favorable for life. The newly selected, $1 billion NASA mission Dragonfly, now in design, is a quadcopter-like rotorcraft lander for Titan. This capable spacecraft will image the surface up close, in the vein of Mars rover exploration, but could vastly outstrip these rovers in ground coverage, easily exceeding several hundred miles. And it will analyze samples, helping us understand if conditions are right for life in the distant reaches of our solar system. NEAF Talks brings you the best from the annual NEAF Space & Astronomy conference which is held just outside of New York City at the RCC campus of the State University of NY. The Northeast Astronomy Forum is in its 30th year and is a world-renowned symposium that annually searches the globe for the most relevant personalities who are making space, science, and astronomy history today. Now through NEAF Talks online, these outstanding lectures are available to classrooms, universities, professionals, and the world at large free of charge. Visit RocklandAstronomy.com\NEAF for more information or to learn how to see NEAF live. NEAF Talks- supporting science and astronomy education for a quarter-century, now free to the world via the web. Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Northeast-Astronomy-Forum-Space-Expo-504029046447061/