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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino'>Hello All,<br><br>Southern Maine Astronomers is inviting members of your club to attend a special Zoom presentation by <span style='color:#333333'>Dr. Elizabeth A. Kessler. See the invitation below:</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333'><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino;color:#333333'><br>---Dwight Lanpher, </span><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino;color:#A6A6A6'>Club Liaison</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino'><o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>On 4/28/25, 3:01 PM, "'ROBERT BURGESS' via Southern Maine Astronomers" <<a href="mailto:southernmaineastronomers@googlegroups.com">southernmaineastronomers@googlegroups.com</a>> wrote:</p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333'>Dear SMA Members and Friends,<br><br>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. </span><br><br><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333'>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.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino'><img border=0 width=500 height=333 style='width:5.2083in;height:3.4687in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01DBB955.DDB8B4F0"><br></span><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Apollo - The International Arts Magazine,</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> 11 September 2022 Elizabeth A. Kessler<br><i>With the James Webb Telescope, star-gazing has become even more sublime</i></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Palatino'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333'>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,<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><em><span style='font-family:Helvetica'>Picturing the Cosmos: Hubble Space Telescope Images and the Astronomical Sublime,</span></em> on the aesthetics of deep space images, was published in 2012. Her work has also appeared in<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><em><span style='font-family:Helvetica'>Aperture, Technology and Culture, The Journal of Visual Culture, </span></em>and other publications.</span><br><br><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333'>We will also have our usual presentation from Russ Pinizzotto on what's up in Spring skies.<br><br>Please join us on zoom:<br><br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:red'>Join Zoom Meeting<br></span><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81389434394?pwd=BOqSb9vnW4ielvi35Yk7gYd4cELVGl.1"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#0070C0'>https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81389434394?pwd=BOqSb9vnW4ielvi35Yk7gYd4cELVGl.1</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:red'><br><br>Meeting ID: 813 8943 4394</span><br><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:red'>Passcode: 618466</span><br><br><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333'>Zoom opens at 6:30 for chit chat with the formal meeting beginning at 7 pm.</span><br><br><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#333333'>Hope to see you!<br><br>Rob</span><br><br>--<br>If you aren't already a SMA club member, please support our programs and gain benefits by becoming a paid member now. <br>Annual membership levels can be found at: <a href="https://www.southernmaineastronomers.org/#6">https://www.southernmaineastronomers.org/#6</a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></blockquote></div></body></html>