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Sunday, November 8
2 observers plan to be at Montebello.
Monday, November 9
1 observer plans to be at Lake San Antonio.
Tuesday, November 10
2 observers plan to be at Dinosaur Point.
Friday, November 13
2 observers plan to be at Unlisted Site.
Saturday, November 14
1 observer plans to be at Bonny Doon Airport.
7 observers plan to be at D.A.R.C. Observatory.
2 observers plan to be at Deep Sky Ranch.
1 observer plans to be at Dinosaur Point.
2 observers plan to be at Lake Sonoma.
Sunday, November 15
2 observers plan to be at Unlisted Site.

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11/12/2009
Thursday, 19:00

The Thirty Meter Telescope
Sponsored by: UCO Lick

Astonomer Jerry Nelson of the University of California
Observatories/Lick Observatory at UC Santa Cruz is the
Project Scientist for the Thirty Meter Telescope and a
Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of
California Santa Cruz.
Jerry brings great experience as the principal designer and project
scientist for the world’s largest optical telescopes, the twin W. M.
Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, to his job with TMT,
including recent work on Keck’s state-of-the-art adaptive optics
systems. He has earned numerous honors for his work on the
Keck Telescope and has been a member of the National Academy
of Sciences since 1996.
Jerry received his B.S. in physics from the California Institute of
Technology and his Ph.D. in elementary particle physics from
UC Berkeley.
Jerry is the founding director of the Center for Adaptive Optics,
an NSF funded Science and Techonology Center. He was the
director from 1999 to 2004.

 

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