Cosmic Conversations:

CFAS Speaker Series

Prepare for an extraordinary cosmic conversation unlike any other! At CFAS, our stellar Speaker Series brings together professionals and budding enthusiasts in a welcoming online space where curiosity meets knowledge. Whether you’re an avid astronomer or a curious novice, our Speaker Series promises discussions that will inspire and inform at every turn.

Astrobiology: The Search for Life

Dr. Neil Farber

Chasing the Aurora in Solar Maximum and Beyond

Melissa Kaelin

Analog Missions - Paving the Way to Mars

Dr. Anika Mehlis

Virtual Moon Project

Manny Pimenta & Phillipe van Nedervelde

Near Earth Asteroids: What Can We Do About Them?

Ken Ruffin

Astrosleuthing an Aurora

Prof. Robin Metcalf

The Last Stargazers

Emily Levesque

The Search for Interstellar Objects of Technological Origin

Professor Avi Loeb

The Lives of Stars

Amy C. Oliver, FRAS

Mining the Cosmos for Critical Minerals

Dr. Bryony Richards

Narrowband One-Shot-Color (OSC) images in PixInsight

John Starr

U.S. Naval Observatory, 1830 to the Present

Geoff Chester

Narrowband Processing Workshop with PixInsight

Frank Kane

Exoplanets

Dr. Joshua Winn

Under Alien Skies - A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe

Philip Plait

LRGB image processing with PixInsight

Wes Klehm

Discussion on SETI Institute and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Seth Shostak

A City on Mars

Kelly Weinersmith

James Webb Space Telescope and the Discoveries it's Made

Dr. Michelle Thaller

HI-SEAS: Analog Astronaut Space Therapy and Human Behavior

Sharife Gacel, MS, LMHC, LPC, QS

Ghost Particles in the Sky: An Introduction to Neutrino Astronomy

Dr. Luke A. Corwin

Unraveling Cosmic Dust Origins: JWST Revelations from Supernovae

Dr. Melissa Shahbandeh, STScl

Using the astrology in the Old Farmer's Almanac for astronomy

John Pinto

Mysteries of Dark Matter and Dark Energy

Dr. Katherine Mack

The Decade of Venus

David Grinspoon

Star Light, Star Bright: The Secret Lives of the Stars

Shane Larson

Passion for amateur astronomy and his latest outreach experiences

Tim Russ

Amateur Spectroscopy

Tom Field

Best Practices in Astrophotography

Richard Wright

Making Star Charts

Ken Graun

Exolith Lab & My Journey to Space Dirt

Anna Metke

The Lunar South Pole Environment

Daniel Batcheldor

An Evolutionary Way to View the Moon

Peter Detterline

Mars Perseverance Rover

Brendan Byrne

The Physics of Star Trek

Dr. Erin Macdonald

Central Florida Nights

Derek Demeter

A Bunch of Black Holes

Amy C. Oliver

Analog Environments

Dr. Graham Lau

Everything Mars

Dr. Robert Zubrin

Strange New Worlds

Phil Plait