[CMAS] [SMA] May 1 club meeting - Thursday at 7 pm

[Colin Caissie]

I've attended these SMA meetings in the past and really enjoy the space and
the group who put on a great presentation .   I recommend this
to any CMASmember and friend.

C

On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 10:53 PM Dwight M. Lanpher CMAS <
groupcmas at lanpherassociates.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> Southern Maine Astronomers is inviting members of your club to attend a
> special Zoom presentation by Dr. Elizabeth A. Kessler. See the invitation
> below:
>
> ---Dwight Lanpher, *Club Liaison*
>
> On 4/28/25, 3:01 PM, "'ROBERT BURGESS' via Southern Maine Astronomers" <
> southernmaineastronomers at googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
> Dear SMA Members and Friends,
>
> Please come join us at the club meeting of Southern Maine Astronomers on
> Thursday, May 1, at 7 p.m. for what will be an intriguing discussion about
> the melding of cosmic images from space and art.  Our speaker will be Dr.
> Elizabeth A. Kessler, an Advanced Lecturer in American Studies at Stanford
> University.
>
> Images from high-powered telescopes, such as NASA’s James Webb and Hubble
> Space Telescopes, present the cosmos as vividly colored and brilliantly
> lit, a sublime astronomical landscape. Such views balance the need for
> scientifically valid representations with a desire for aesthetically
> powerful ones. This talk will explore how scientists and artists in the
> 20th and 21st century depict space and consider how astronomy and art help
> us understand our place in the universe.
>
>
> *Apollo - The International Arts Magazine,*  11 September 2022
> Elizabeth A. Kessler
> *With the James Webb Telescope, star-gazing has become even more sublime*
>
> Professor Kessler's research and teaching focus on twentieth and
> twenty-first century American visual culture and its intersections with
> science and technology. Her book, *Picturing the Cosmos: Hubble Space
> Telescope Images and the Astronomical Sublime,* on the aesthetics of deep
> space images, was published in 2012. Her work has also appeared in *Aperture,
> Technology and Culture, The Journal of Visual Culture, *and other
> publications.
>
> We will also have our usual presentation from Russ Pinizzotto on what's up
> in Spring skies.
>
> Please join us on zoom:
>
> Join Zoom Meeting
> https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81389434394?pwd=BOqSb9vnW4ielvi35Yk7gYd4cELVGl.1
>
> Meeting ID: 813 8943 4394
> Passcode: 618466
>
> Zoom opens at 6:30 for chit chat with the formal meeting beginning at 7 pm.
>
> Hope to see you!
>
> Rob
>
> --
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>
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