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When
6:30 – 7:30 p.m., June 24, 2023
Where
Come hear UArizona Regents Professor J. Roger Angel present in the planetarium dome at 6:30pm with “Big Mirrors on the Earth and the Moon”. Angel will tell the story behind the Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab: a unique facility underneath Arizona Stadium that fabricates the largest telescope mirrors in the world. Prof. Angel will preview the largest astronomical telescopes being built on Earth today and share some proposals for building a large telescope on the surface of the Moon. A question-and-answer session will follow.
The lecture will be $5 per person during our Science at Sunset: Big Mirrors, Big Aspirations Event on Saturday, June 24th.