Bay Area Skeptics: HANGIN’ OUT with Leonard Tramiel at Chabot Space & Science Center

Leonard Tramiel, Ph.D. physics, has been a volunteer docent at Chabot Space and Science Center since 2000. Lots to see, including a Soyuz capsule that illustrates better than anything else why basketball players are not recruited to be astronauts. If you haven’t been to Chabot in a while, you won’t want to miss the new NASA Ames exhibit that includes, among other items, a full-scale model of the Artemis Rover, intended for launching next year. Have you met Leah and Rachel? The classic 1883 and 1915 refracting telescopes are still being used at Chabot, and - although you may not realize it - a surprising number of astronomical phenomena are visible during daylight. Leonard is a certified operator on both telescopes, and weather permitting, can give us a tour and demonstration of those observatories. There is also a planetarium show included in the admission fee. This is your second opportunity to hang out with Leonard; earlier this year he hosted a very popular HangOut at the Computer History Museum. If you missed that, here’s another chance!