AL Presents: Seeing Faster-Than-Light Objects and Other Perspectives on Distance

AL LIVE! March 1, 2024, 7 p.m. EST

Chuck Allen: 

“Seeing Faster-Than-Light Objects and Other Perspectives on Distance”

Streamed live at
https://ExploreScientific.com/live
https://Facebook.com/Astronomical.League

Props are used to initiate discussion of the distances covered, or likely to be covered, by space exploration. We’ll explore the limits of naked-eye vision and amateur and professional telescopes. We’ll then examine the four horizons of our observable universe, looking at the causes and effects of horizons and the ability of photons to reach us from regions receding from us faster than light. And if you feel small at the end, I also have a cure.

Chuck Allen is vice president and past president of the Astronomical League. He founded the National Young Astronomer Award in 1991, received the 1998 G. R. Wright Award for service, holds the League’s Master Outreach Award with nearly 600 public programs logged, and is a gold-level Master Observer with 43 programs completed. Chuck coordinates three League Observing Programs and co-chaired ALCon ’21 Virtual during COVID. He is past president of the Louisville Astronomical Society and current Program Director for the Evansville Astronomical Society.