Mtg&Talks

The Warren astronomical Society meets on the first Monday of the month in the auditorium of the Cranbrook Institute of Science. At the meetings, we spend the first hour or so of the meeting on club business and observing reports, then have two presentations, one short and one full-length.
Main Talk
The DART Mission
by Nancy Chabot
On September 26, 2022, NASA’s DART mission successfully impacted the asteroid Dimorphos. DART’s impact with the asteroid Dimorphos, which poses no threat to Earth, demonstrated a mitigation technique for potentially protecting the planet from an Earth-bound asteroid in the future, if one were discovered. This presentation will share DART’s successful autonomous navigation to impact a small asteroid at high speed and the results that followed from DART’s impact event, as well as discuss what that means for potentially applying this technique in the future.
About the Speaker
Dr. Nancy L. Chabot is the chief scientist for the Space Exploration Sector. She was the coordination lead on NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, is the deputy principal investigator for the Mars-moon Exploration with GAmma rays and NEutrons (MEGANE) instrument on the JAXA Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission, and is an interdisciplinary scientist on the joint ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission. On NASA’s MESSENGER mission, she was the instrument scientist for the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) and the chair of the Geology Discipline Group. She has been a member of five field teams with the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) program.
Short Talk
How to Take the BEST Milky Way Pictures Ever
by Adrian Bradley
If you have been wanting to take beautiful photos of the Milky Way, look no further than this talk! In 15 short minutes Adrian will show you some tips and tricks to help you get started towards taking absolutely GREAT Milky Way photos with whatever camera gear you've got.
About the Speaker
Adrian Bradley is an avid amateur nightscape photographer and astronomer. He prefers wide angle 'landscape astrophotography', especially Milky Way Photography. He uses his images to share his love of the night sky and his desire to understand and preserve it. He is currently involved with a few different astronomy groups, including the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Explore Alliance, the Astronomical League, The University Lowbrow Astronomers, G.L.A.A.C., and of course the W.A.S. Adrian has three articles published in Astronomy Magazine. He is in the June 2024, February 2025, and June 2025. He is a husband and father of two children.

If you would like to present either a short talk (10-15 minutes) or a full-length talk (45-60 minutes) at a future meeting, please email Dale Partin at firstvp@warrenastro.org.

The views expressed in presentations are those of the speakers and do not necessarily represent, and should not be attributed to, the Warren Astronomical Society.