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september

Marsh Creek State Park 675 Park Road, Downingtown PA 19335

15sep6:30 pm- 11:00 pmStar Party @ Marsh Creek State Park :: Star Party’s a go. See you there.

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Join your neighbors at the

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Join your neighbors at the lower parking lot at Marsh Creek State Park in Eagle, Chester County for an exciting evening exploring the wonders of the heavens.

Watch a sunset become a star-laced sky, view planets, star clusters and galaxies using our members’ telescopes and live view star cameras. There will be activities to thrill and challenge all ages, so don’t miss out!

These events are free of charge provided to the community by your neighbors who are members of the Chesmont Astronomical Society. Free will donations to the society will be gratefully accepted.

Because these events are clear, dark sky, weather dependent be sure to check our website (www.chesmontastro.org) after 5:00 pm for last minute schedule changes.

Questions or comments? Please use our Contact Form.

Time

(Saturday) 6:30 pm - 11:00 pm EDT

Location

Marsh Creek State Park

675 Park Road, Downingtown PA 19335

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Crows Nest Preserve 201 Piersol Road Elverson, PA 19520

23sep7:00 pm- 9:00 pmCAS MeetingMassive Stars - The Powerhouses of our Galaxy

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Join us at the Crow's

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Join us at the Crow’s Nest Preserve for our monthly club meeting.

Dr. Veronique Petit will be our Guest Speaker.

Massive stars, which can have up to one hundred times the mass of our own Sun, are the powerhouses of our Galaxy. They shape their surroundings though their intense radiation and winds, trigger the formation of new generations of stars, and produce almost all of the heavy chemical elements in the Universe through nuclear reactions in their cores. Understanding the life-cycle of these stars is thus of great importance to astrophysics, even more so since the recent detection of gravitational waves, which originate from the coalescence and merger of black holes and neutron stars formed when massive stars die. These waves, now detected by the 2017 Nobel prize-winning LIGO experiment, are revolutionizing the field of stellar astrophysics by providing much-needed observational constraints on the endpoint of massive star evolution. Dr. Petit will discuss the most important factors dictating the evolution of massive stars, including an important factor has only been recently recognized and is a subject of intense research at UD: the presence of a surface magnetic field. These surface magnetic fields have the potential to dramatically alter the life-cycle, and ultimate fate, of a massive star.

Time

(Sunday) 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EDT

Location

Crows Nest Preserve

201 Piersol Road Elverson, PA 19520

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october

Marsh Creek State Park 675 Park Road, Downingtown PA 19335

20oct5:30 pm- 11:00 pmInternational Observe the Moon Night (InOMN) @ Marsh Creek State Park

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Join your neighbors at the

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Join your neighbors at the lower parking lot at Marsh Creek State Park in Eagle, Chester County for an exciting evening exploring the wonders of the heavens.

Since this is an International Observe the Moon Night event we will be (you guessed it…) focusing on our friend, THE MOON.

These events are free of charge provided to the community by your neighbors who are members of the Chesmont Astronomical Society. Free will donations to the society will be gratefully accepted.

Because these events are clear, dark sky, weather dependent be sure to check our website (www.chesmontastro.org) after 3:30 pm for last minute schedule changes.

Questions or comments? Please use our Contact Form.