From Amateur Telescopes to Cutting Edge Science: Perspectives on a 4.5” Telescope

When a professional astronomer looks through a small telescope, they see the same things amateur astronomers do. In this talk, astronomer Matthew Shetrone will discuss some of the wonderful things we all might see through backyard telescopes like the library's own 4.5 inch reflector telescope, and the connections between the visible cosmos and some of the most interesting and profound questions astronomers still ask.

Speaker: Matthew Shetrone, Deputy Director, UC Observatories

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