The Estes Valley Astronomical Society (EVAS) in conjunction with The Estes Park Memorial Observatory is offering a free public open house/star night on Saturday, April 29th, 7 PM. The goal of EVAS is to promote amateur astronomy and education in the Estes valley.

Our honorary EVAS member and speaker for the evening will be John Ensworth and he will be presenting the starting material he has assembled for an introduction to astronomy course that would run for a full semester in college. He will begin with the basics and requests you bring questions. Audience questions and interest will dictate how much is covered. Expected run time: an hour or a bit more. It is an introductory course; there are no prerequisites and no prior knowledge of mathematics or astronomy necessary. There is no cost to this course, but no credit hours will be awarded either. For more on his talk visit the website at: AngelsAbove.org.

John Ensworth is currently the Principle Investigator of the NASA SMD Independent Education Product Review at the IGES (www.strategies.org). His position is the one responsible for conducting these reviews and helping with NASA education and outreach efforts. In the 90’s Mr. Ensworth was a masters’ student and a PhD candidate in meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. He earned undergraduate degrees in physics and astronomy, and geography and meteorology with an emphasis in math and computer science.

More recently, he’s run more than 60 astronomy nights for Arizona, Oklahoma, Virginia and Colorado residents. He served an internship at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in the year 2000 and is a volunteer at the Little Thompson Observatory in Berthoud, Colorado. He teaches math and science courses at the University of Phoenix, Grand Canyon University, and Mid- American Christian University. You can view a Webcam of his backyard observatory (Cherrywood Observatory) in Longmont,
CO at Weather Underground: or at his personal webcam page: .

The observatory is just north of the high school at 1600 Manford Ave. Park in the teacher’s parking lot between the high school and the observatory. The doors will open at 7:00 pm and the presentation will start at 7:30 pm. Weather permitting after the presentation, visitors will be invited to look through our large telescope at various celestial objects.

If you have any questions, please check the EPMO web site at: www.AngelsAbove.org . The lecture is free to the public and no reservations necessary. Just come and join the party and be ready to ask questions! For more information, please call the observatory at 970-586-5668

Doors Open: 7:00 | Guest Speaker: 7:30-8:30 | Observing: 8:30-10:00