NCHALADA ARCHIVES

NCHALADA Archives

	Morning Session		Afternoon Session
NCHALADA LXXVIII November 4, 2006	White Elephants: Abandoned & Unfunded Telescopes, Spacecraft, etc.	Norm Sperling	History of the Constellations and Their Naming	Nancy Cox
NCHALADA LXXVII August 5, 2006	The Motions of the Moon	Robert Garfinkle, FRAS	Arabic Star Names	Nancy Cox
NCHALADA LXXVI May 6, 2006	Measuring Astronimical Temperature	Alan Fisher	Ancient Near-East Astronomical Carvings	Nancy Cox
NCHALADA LXXV February 11, 2006	Eclipses and Longitude	John Westfall	Lunar Rays, Bright Spots, and Banded Craters	Robert Garfinkle
NCHALADA_LXXIV November 5, 2005	Celestial Mapping: Early American Contributions	Nick Kanas	The Connection Between Asteroids and Meteorites	Nancy Cox
NCHALADA LXXIII July 16, 2005	The Shapes of the Earth	John Westfall	Lunar Rilles	Robert Garfinkle
NCHALADA LXXII May 7, 2005	Lunar Domes	Robert Garfinkle	Earth Impact Craters	Nancy Cox
NCHALADA LXXI February 5, 2005	The First Telescopes	John Dillon	Pre-Columbian American Astronomy	Bruce R. Mehlman
NCHALADA LXX December 12, 2004	Naming Conventions in Early Astronomy	Nick Kanas	Chinese Astronomy	Celeste Burrows
NCHALADA LXIX August 21, 2004	Astronomical Humor	Norm Sperling	Muslim Astronomy Before 1600	Bruce R. Mehlman
NCHALADA LXVIII May 1, 2004	Asteroid Orbits	Bruce R. Mehlman	Cosmic Rays	Nancy Cox
NCHALADA LXVII February 7, 2004	Radio Astronomy	Robert Garfinkle	History of Mars Geology	Nancy Cox
NCHALADA LXVI November 1, 2003	Human Flight	Alan Fisher	History of the Geology of the Moon	Bruce R. Mehlman
NCHALADA LXV August 2, 2003	Give 'em an Inch? International System of Units and Physical Constants.	Andrew Bell	What Should a History of Astronomy Course Include?	Norm Sperling
NCHALADA LXIV April 12, 2003	T.J.J. See, Mare Island, and Navigation Instruments	Jim Kern	T.J.J. See in Context	Carl Trost
NCHALADA LXIII February 1, 2003	History of Astronomy on the World Wide Web	Bruce R. Mehlman	Astronomical Instruments from 200 BCE to 1600 CE	Celeste Burrows
NCHALADA LXII October 12, 2002	The Grand Amateurs	John Westfall	Near Earth Asteroids	Bill Stepka
NCHALADA LXI June 22, 2002	Magnetism	Alan R. Fisher	Galileo & Daughter	Nancy Cox
NCHALADA LX March 30, 2002	Wavelengths, Part 2	Andrew Bell	Shifts Happen, the work of Thomas Kuhn	Bruce R. Mehlman
NCHALADA LIX January 5, 2002	Ancient Greek Astronomy	John Dillon	Wavelengths, 19th century spectroscopy and the birth of modern astrophysics	Andrew Bell
NCHALADA LVIII October 6, 2001	How Far the Stars	John Westfall	Elementary Particles	Nancy K. Cox
NCHALADA LVII June 9, 2001	The History of Rocketry from WWII to Infinity and Beyond	Alan R. Fisher	Space Stations	Celeste Burrows
NCHALADA LVI February 10, 2001	The History of Rocketry	Alan R. Fisher	Worth a Thousand Words	Bruce R. Mehlman
NCHALADA LV November 11, 2000	Can't Win Them All	Bruce R. Mehlman	The Depopulation of the Solar System	John Westfall
NCHALADA LIV August 5, 2000	A History of Earth's Atmosphere	Fred Jueneman	The Most Significant Astronomical Research Papers of the Last 100 Years	Nancy Cox
NCHALADA LIII May 20, 2000	The Story of Longitude	Bruce R. Mehlman	The History of the History of the Universe	Nancy Cox
NCHALADA LII February 12, 2000	The Copernican Challenge	Bruce R. Mehlman	Famous Meteor Showers	Nancy Cox
NCHALADA LI November 13, 1999	Binary Stars	Jim Scala	Standard Candles: A History of the Cepheid Variable Stars	José Olivarez
NCHALADA L August 28, 1999	The History of the Lunar Theory, or Where is the Moon Now?	Robert Garfinkle	Celestial Surveys: the BD and Other Great Star Atlases	José Olivarez
NCHALADA XLIX June 5, 1999	Things You Can Do With Next-to-Nothing: History and Prehistory of the Infinitesimal Calculus	Alan Fisher	Lunar Probes	Nancy Cox
NCHALADA XLVIII February 27, 1999	Climate Changes of Earth	Betty Neall	Asteroids	Bill Stepka
NCHALADA XLVII November 7, 1998	Øle Roemer	Bruce R. Mehlman	Horizon Markers in Archaeoastronomy	Bill Stepka
NCHALADA XLVI June 6, 1998	Lord Rosse of Birr Castle	Marshal Merriam	Chinese Astronomy	Norm Sperling
NCHALADA XLV February 14, 1998	Johannes Kepler	Robert Garfinkl	Renaissance Astronomy	José Olivarez
NCHALADA XLIV November 15, 1997	Earthquakes	Sally Caughran	Eugene Shoemaker	Don E. Wilhelm
NCHALADA XLIII August 16, 1997	A History of Zero	Alan R. Fisher	Vatican Observatory	Nancy Cox
NCHALADA XLII April 26, 1997	Lunar Oddities	John Westfall	Important Graphs and Charts	Norm Sperling
NCHALADA XLI January 11, 1997	The Dark of Night, or Olbers's Paradox	Alan R. Fisher	Camille Flammarion	Norm Sperling
NCHALADA XL June 15, 1996	The Aether and its Many Uses: Mining the Aether Ore	Alan R. Fisher	Observatories As Planned and As Built	Mike Reynold
NCHALADA XXXIX February 3, 1996	Discovery of Solar System Moons	Bob Garfinkle	The Sun	Nancy Cox
NCHALADA XXXVIII October 21, 1995	The Development of Meteorites	Norm Sperling	Mount Wilson Observatory	Nancy Cox
NCHALADA XXXVII June 10, 1995	Explorers and Astronomy	John Westfall	Polynesian Astronomy and Navigation	Bruce R. Mehlman
NCHALADA XXXVI February 11, 1995	Gravity from Antiquity to the Present	Alan Fisher	Discovery of the Age of the Earth and Solar System	Nancy Cox
NCHALADA XXXV November 12, 1994	T. J. J. See, the Sage of Mare Island	Norm Sperling	Sky Surveys and Their Resultant Discoveries	Rich Wood
NCHALADA XXXIV August 20, 1994	The Age of the Universe	Rich Wood	The Cretaceous/Tertiary Impact	Carl Trost
NCHALADA XXXIII April 30, 1994	Tabloid Astronomy!	John Hewitt	The Acceptance of Impact Cratering	Bruce R. Mehlman
NCHALADA XXXII January 29, 1994	Comets, Capture and Collision	Norm Sperling	Aurorae in History and Folklore	Nancy Cox
NCHALADA XXXI October 30, 1993	Post-[Precession (and Pre-Precession) Session with Nutation Notations and Other Notions About Other Motions	Alan Fisher	Supernovae	Don Stone
NCHALADA XXX June 26, 1993	Precession (and Pre-Precession) Session with Nutation Notations and Other Notions About Other Motions	Alan Fisher	Cosmic Discovery a la Harwit	Alan B. Gorski
NCHALADA XXIX March 13, 1993	Messages From the Gods: Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, and Babylonian Astronomy	Jinky Smalley	Interstellar Molecules	Nancy Cox
NCHALADA XXVIII December 12, 1992	Forensic Astronomy	Norm Sperling	The Size of the Universe	Don Stone
NCHALADA XXVII August 15, 1992	Sir Isaac Newton	Alan Fisher	Science Education and Astronomy	David Dearborn
NCHALADA XXVI April 11, 1992	The Columbus Semi-Millennium and the Age of Discovery	Alan Fisher	Space Exploration: Past, Present and Future	Mike Reynolds
NCHALADA XXV January 18, 1992	Chasing Eclipses	Carter Roberts	Constellations and Stars: Their Lore and Meaning	Don Stone
NCHALADA XXIV August 24, 1991	Galileo Galilei	Robert Multhauf	John Dobson	Franklyn Creese
NCHALADA XXIII April 27, 1991	Famous Amateur Telescope Makers	Rich Wood	Telescopes and Observatories of Kings	Norm Sperling
NCHALADA XXII January 26, 1991	The Expanding Universe	Alan Fisher	Cranks in Astronomy	Norm Sperling
NCHALADA XXI September 29, 1990	Women in Astronomy	Lettie Multhauf	Planetarium History	Norm Sperling
NCHALADA XX June 16, 1990	Astronomy in the Fine Arts	Joe Wujek	The Development of Calendars	Don Stone
NCHALADA XIX February 10, 1990	The Great American Meteorite Hunters	Norm Sperling	Transits of Venus	John Westfall
NCHALADA XVIII November 11, 1989	Percival Lowell and His Observatory	Joseph H. Wujek	Naked-Eye Astronomy	John Westfall
NCHALADA XVII July 15, 1989	The Struve Dynasty	Alan Gorski	Pluto and the Pup	Don Stone
NCHALADA XVI April 29, 1989	Astronomy and Timekeeping	Rich Wood	The ASP's First Century	Dale Cruikshank
NCHALADA XV January 28, 1989	Sundials	Nancy Cox	Archaeoastronomical Sites	Ernie Piini
NCHALADA XIV October 29, 1988	Names on the Moon	John E. Westfall	Martian Observations	Bill Sorrells
NCHALADA XIII July 9, 1988	American Telescopes and Observatories: A History Stressing the Human Side	Ron Oriti	Which Astronomical Sites Should Be National Historic Landmarks?	Norm Sperling
NCHALADA XII April 30, 1988	The First Century of Lick Observatory: The 19th Century	John Gustafson	The First Century of Lick Observatory: The 20th Century	Don Osterbrock
NCHALADA XI February 27, 1988	Sky Mapping	Rich Wood	History of Spectroscopy	E.T. Florence
NCHALADA X November 14, 1987	The Astronomical Herschels	E.T. Florence	Eclipses	Steve Greenberg
NCHALADA IX August 15, 1987	Astronomy and Computers	Rich Wood	Rocketry Through Sputnik	James T. Green
NCHALADA VIII April 11, 1987	Old Introductory Astronomy Textbooks	Norm Sperling	Astronomy in Science Fiction	Rich Wood
NCHALADA VII January 10, 1987	Evolution of Stellar Evolution	Wally Beardsley	History of Lunar Observing	Nancy Cox
NCHALADA VI September 20, 1986	Cosmology From Before Genesis to Copernicus	Betty Neall	George Davidson	Ed Florence
NCHALADA V May 31, 1986	Ancient Astronomical Instruments	Alan Fisher	History of Discovery of Galaxies	Joe Tenn
NCHALADA IV February 22, 1986	Discovery of the Outer Planets	Don Stone	Discovery of the Asteroids	Walt Masten
NCHALADA III October 5, 1985	Ancient Greek Astronomy: Hellenic	Beth Buder	Ancient Greek Astronomy: Hellenistic	John Westfall
NCHALADA II May 18, 1985	Bay Area Observatories	Wally Beardsley	Giant Telescopes of the 19th and 20th Centuries	Bob Seidel
NCHALADA I February 23, 1985	Comets Through History	Ron Oriti	19th Century American Refractors	Norm Sperling