New photos of the 7″ Alvan Clark refractor from 1851 (Clark’s first telescope) and a room of the Mehlin Museum of Astronomy below the dome that includes an 1876 Repsold meridian transit, in the original building of the Hopkins Observatory (constructed 1836-8), were taken by Ralph Lieberman as part of… Continue reading »
The eight students chose for the expedition to the August 21 Solar Eclipse are: Erin Meadors ’20 Ross Yu ’19 Christian Lockwood ’20 Charles Ide ’20 Connor Marti ’20 Declan Daly ’20 Cielo Perez ’19 Brendan Rosseau ’19 funding: NSF; National Geographic… Continue reading »
Current students and alumni at American Astronomical Society meeting, Grapevine, TX… Continue reading »
Terry-Ann’s geosciences thesis at the University of Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, was on diamond-anvil measurements of the metal-silicate partitioning behaviours of siderophile and volatile elements at the conditions of the deep primitive Earth, to provide constraints on the mechanisms of terrestrial core formation. David Ticehurst’s physics thesis at… Continue reading »
http://www.aapt.org/aboutaapt/pressreleases/2017_AAPT_Richtmyer_Memorial_Lecture_Award.cfm… Continue reading »
Williams College Announces Planetarium Schedule for the Fall Semester… Continue reading »
Williams College Faculty, Alumna, and Staff Observe Solar Eclipse’s Effects on Weather… Continue reading »
Hopkins Observatory Announces Summer Planetarium Schedule… Continue reading »
Excitement is gathering about the total solar eclipse that will sweep across the continental United States on August 21, 2017. Williams College astronomy professor Jay Pasachoff, a veteran of 63 solar eclipses, is describing how to prepare the public for the great event in a press conference at the meeting… Continue reading »
Scientific Observations Planned for Monday’s Transit of Mercury… Continue reading »
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