Introduction to Perseverance – https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2020/6/17/meet-nasas-next-mars-rover-perseverance-launching-this-summer/
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- Skymaps.com – Donation-supported maps of the night sky for each month
- Stellarium – Donation-supported, open-source night sky simulator
- Clear Sky Chart – Weather predictions of stargazing conditions
- Astronomy demos
Boise State Physics
First Friday Astronomy
Friday, Apr 2 at 7:30p MT
Seeing the Dark Side of the Universe through Cosmic Lenses
Dr. Ami Choi
Dept. of Physics, Ohio State Univ.
Online lecture begins 7:30pm MT
http://www.astrojack.com/ffa-cosmic-lenses
–Skymaps.com – Donation-supported maps of the night sky for each month
–Stellarium – Donation-supported, open-source night sky simulator
–Clear Sky Chart – Weather predictions of stargazing conditions

Boise State Physics
First Friday Astronomy
Friday, Mar 5th at 7:30p MT
Psyche: Journey to a Metallic World
Prof. Lindy Elkins-Tanton,
School Of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State Univ.
Online lecture begins 7:30pm MT
http://www.astrojack.com/ffa-psyche
Join Boise State Physics on the Third Thursday of each month at 7:30p MT for a virtual planetarium show. This month’s show will take place on Jan 21. If you’d like to join us, please sign up at http://boi.st/thirdthursday.
Resources for this month’s show:
–http://stellarium.org/ – Stellarium is donation-supported, so please contribute if you can.
–Skymaps.com – Donation-supported, monthly maps of the night sky
–Turn Left at Orion – Excellent guidebook for stargazing
-Great Conjunctions wikipedia article
-xkcd’s JWST launch date plot
-Netflix’s “Alien Worlds“
–Jupiter’s hexagon
–Exoplanet spectroscopy
–What’s Up Doc
