Non-Planetarium

Talk by Faride Khalaf Friday, December 4 7 p.m. Watch on Facebook and YouTube Above our life sustaining atmosphere resides an international team of scientists living onboard an orbiting complex we know as the International Space Station (ISS).  The ISS is the crowning achievement of many nations. It symbolizes a new beginning in the exploration […]

Talk by Dr. Franck Marchis, Senior Planetary Astronomer at the SETI Institute Tuesday, December 8 7-8 p.m. Watch on Facebook and YouTube Exoplanets are everywhere. Astronomers have discovered more 4,000 of them and today we know that in average each star in our galaxy has 2 planets! Among them, 300 million could be habitable. That’s […]

What's happening in the sky this month? Friday, December 18 7-8 p.m. Watch on Facebook and YouTube Join Chabot's astronomers, with Gerald McKeegan & Don Saito on Facebook Live for a short tour of this month's nighttime sky. Learn to recognize many of this month's constellations and bright stars, and even learn a little about […]

Monday, December 21 5-6 p.m. Free, Watch On Facebook and YouTube Join Chabot astronomers virtually on Facebook and YouTube for a rare celestial event! Every 20 years, Jupiter gets very close to Saturn as seen from Earth, an event astronomers call "conjunction." This year, the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction will be especially close, the closest in 800 […]

Virtual Telescope Viewings will take a holiday break on 12/26, but we look forward to viewing the cosmos with you in the New Year! Every Saturday 9-10:30 p.m. Free on Facebook Live and YouTube Join our resident astronomers on Facebook Live and YouTube every Saturday evening live from Chabot’s Observation deck! Each week, our astronomers […]