“Comets!”
Greg Dolkas
December 3, 2025
This month, Greg will try to unravel the facts, hype, mystery, and outright fiction surrounding the recent “storm” of comets. His presentation will include how comets (and similar lumps of matter) are named, what they’re (normally) made of, and how the recent interstellar visitor is different.
Since retiring in 2016, Greg has made backyard astronomy into a second (third?) hobby. He enjoys taking pictures of the glorious objects out there in deep space, from galaxies to globular and star clusters to the colorful nebulae. They’re all things we are looking directly at when we gaze the night sky, but are just beyond our ability to perceive.
** Note **
For the “Summer Season” (July and August) the NC Astronomers will sometimes meet on-line via Zoom for special programs. Club members will receive the keys to the Zoom conference in their email via Groups.io.
NC Astronomers Meets on the 1st Wednesday each month at 7pm in the
Madelyn Helling Library Community Room
980 Helling Way
Nevada City, CA 95959
(September – May)
** NC Astronomers “YouTube” channel **
Many of the presentations are recorded and posted to the club’s YouTube channel.
Please see https://www.youtube.com/@ncastronomers9981/videos