Events 2020
December 2020
Featured here is our holiday get-together, Lift the Spirits, during which our president Ted Williams dressed up as our namesake David Rittenhouse and read a poem, "Twas the Night of David.”
November 2020
Our November 2020 event, recorded on 11/25/2020, featuring guest speaker Dr. Ken Kremer and his presentation, “Space Up Close.”
October 2020
Video from our October 2020 Event. Recorded on 10/19/2020, featuring guest speaker Roxanne Kamin and their presentation, “Three Guys, The Hooker, and Me”
Video unavailable at the request of the presenter.
September 2020
Our September 2020 event, recorded on 9/21/2020, featuring guest speaker Robert Naeye and their presentation, “The Search for Extraterrestrial Life.”
June 2020
Video from our June 2020 Event. Recorded on 6/15/2020, featuring guest speaker Elan Lift and their presentation, “The Globe at Night”
May 2020
Video from our May 2020 Event. Recorded on 5/18/2020, featuring guest speaker Irene Pease and their presentation, “AstroZooming Around NYC”
April 2020
Video from our April 2020 Event. Recorded on 4/20/2020, featuring guest speaker Adam Chantry and their presentation, “Comet Atlas 2020: Pop or Fizzle?”
March 2020
March 2020 event canceled due to COVID-19.
February 2020
Lori Weidner is a music instructor for North Penn School District. She'll be sharing excerpts from "The Planets", a seven-movement orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst, written between 1914 and 1916. Each movement of the suite is named after a planet of the solar system and its corresponding character as defined by Holst.
January 2020
Megan Kassabaum joins RAS to deliver their presentation, “Prehistoric Native American Sites and Stories." Megan is the Assistant Professor of the Department of Anthropology and Weingarten Assistant Curator for North America, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at University of Pennsylvania.