Images from aurora viewing expeditions will be shown as well as opportunities to join 5- day trips to watch and/or photograph the remarkable Northern Lights. Solar activity has been heating up since the start of 2023 and will only get better as we approach solar maximum in 2025/2026. Paul D. Maley of the NASA Johnson Space Center Astronomical Society has led 23 prior trips to Alaska both in winter and fall where participants were successful in seeing these phenomena every time. He will describe plans for 2023 and 2024 adventures that are in the works that anyone can join. No scientific background is necessary to join any of these trips limited to 16 persons primarily for adults.
Paul D. Maley has lived in Carefree since 2016 after retiring from various jobs at the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston. He is an avid amateur astronomer and served as expedition coordinator for the JSC Astronomical Society (JSCAS) since 1969; he has traveled to 306 countries and territories, run half marathons on all 7 continents and specializes in observations of eclipses of stars by asteroids as well as studies of artificial Earth satellites. He has published science photos in National Geographic, Sky and Telescope, Aviation Week & Space Technology, and had videos shown on CNN, ABC News, CBS News, and Discovery Channel. He organizes and leads tours to see solar eclipses and Northern Lights as part of public outreach activities of the JSCAS.
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