Drop in style programs for kids of all ages. Occur weekly all summer long.
Under the Scopes [AGES 5+] Monday, Tuesday, and Friday, 1:00-2:00 in the Microscope Lab Discover what lives in a drop of seawater, and learn about how such tiny organisms can make a huge difference for life in the ocean.
Creature of the Week [AGES 4+] Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, 10:30-11:30 in the Aquarium and Classroom
Pop up Activities [AGES 5+] Wednesday and Friday, 11:00-12:00 in the Classroom
The 50th anniversary of the first human footsteps on the Moon will be celebrated on Saturday, July 20 from 8 PM to 10 PM at the Lanesville Community Center (8 Vulcan Street).
There will be sharing of memories, along with a presentation by former Navy Seal Earl Kishida who helped retrieve the Apollo astronauts at sea. Astronomer Bill Waller will then discuss what we have learned from lunar exploration, and what lies ahead.
The evening will end with a toast to the Apollo astronauts and to the thousands of people who supported their pioneering missions. The event is free with donations accepted in support of the Rockport Community Observatory Project being led by the Educational Foundation for Rockport. For more information, please contact Bill Waller at williamhwaller@gmail.com.
Thank you all for coming out on the 3 of July and celebrating with us! Special thank you to everyone who worked hard putting in a float!!!
We would like to congratulate and recognize the winners listed below please contact Doug Goolsby sluggoolsby@live.com to receive your trophy if you have not already received it thank you
Trophy
Name
#
Contact information
Contact #
Most horrible
Mya Goolsby
H11
Heather
Most horrible
Angus Goolsby
H12
Most horrible
Katy Hautala
H7
Allison Beal
Most horrible
Clairet& billy Franklin
H15
Caieet
Most horrible
Samuel Mello
H16
Lesly Mello
Most horrible
Luca and Andronada lammott
H13& 14
Outstanding Horrible
Cyber bullying( Lana Lindsey, Lizzie Harrison, Hanna Sherlock, Anaya Briguglio, Olivia Vargus,jessica Cote,Kylie Mcniff, celina Hanna
Congratulations to all of our Artist Members Exhibition III award recipients! Shelly Eager “Once in a Blue Shrimp”; Pam Pindell “Crouching Nude”; Susan Ellis “Squall Line”; Marie Flahive “Seison”; Faripour Forouhar “The House on the Ocean, Gloucester”; Joyce Wood “Full Moon Rising”; Rachel Wilcox “Diner”; Lawrence Pumfrey “Shelby’s Shed”; Lynne Schulte Lavalley “Party Girl.” Exhibition Two Popular Award recipient is Steve Lush “The Twins.”
Exhibition III is on view through August 3rd. Please join us for the reception and awards presentation on Sunday, July 14th (4-6pm). Open free to the public!
This month we’re fortunate to have Catherine Zucker of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics as our guest speaker. Catherine will show us how we have begun to derive accurate distance measurements to large, star-forming molecular clouds in the Milky Way galaxy, and what that means for astronomy.
Why go to all this trouble? Obtaining accurate distance measurements to molecular clouds is important for understanding the star and planet formation process. The advent of large photometric surveys and the Gaia mission offer an unprecedented opportunity to derive the distances and properties of hundreds of millions of stars, as well as the molecular clouds between them.
Without resorting to scary math, Catherine will explain how we have combined these data with statistical methods to create a new 3D map of molecular clouds in the solar neighborhood (the nearest 10,000 lightyears). As it turns out, these phenomena are surprisingly interrelated — using interactive visualization software, we can find new connections between long-studied molecular clouds that reveal a link between individual star-forming regions and the larger Galactic environment.
The Gloucester Area Astronomy Club meets on the second Friday of every month (except August) at 8:00 pm at the Lanesville Community Center, 8 Vulcan Street in Lanesville. There is no cost, and all are welcome. For more info on the club, see the website or Facebook page, and you can follow us on Twitter, @GAACster.
![Steve Lush[1]](https://i0.wp.com/capeanncommunity.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/steve-lush1.jpg?w=366&h=495&ssl=1 "Steve Lush[1]")
