Upcoming Events › Non-Planetarium

Friday, April 23rd  7pm  Free, Watch on Facebook and YouTube Join us for a special screening of Saving The Dark, a documentary movie on astronomy and light pollution. Learn more about the significance of astronomy and the night skies, effects of light pollution on astronomy, human health, wildlife and beyond, what we can do to fight it.  Panelists will include Saving the Dark film producer Sriram Murali, joined by astronomers Richard Ozer and Gerald McKeegan. We will discuss the costs of…

  Every Saturday 9-10:30 p.m. Free, Watch on Facebook and YouTube Join our resident astronomers on Facebook Live and YouTube every Saturday evening live from Chabot’s Observation deck! Each week, our astronomers will guide us through spectacular night sky viewing through Nellie, Chabot‘s most powerful telescope. Weather permitting we will be able to view objects live through the telescopes and our astronomers will be available for an open forum for all of your most pressing astronomy questions. About Nellie Nellie…

SETI Talk by Dr. Michael Busch  Tuesday, April 27th  7pm  Free, Watch on Facebook and YouTube Near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) are small solar system bodies in orbits that come near or cross the orbit of Earth. Dr. Michael Busch will review NEAs as unique physical worlds, as potential impact hazards to Earth, and as accessible destinations for spacecraft.  Michael W. Busch, PhD, is a planetary astronomer and research scientist at the SETI Institute.  His research focuses primarily on studying individual asteroids with radar and radio technique;…