Rick Boozer is available to give the following presentations
at club meetings and conventions (as well as other public events).
Hunting an Exoplanet with Stellar Photometry
The science of photometry can be used by both amateur and
professional astronomers for some very advanced scientific work. You can detect the light changes caused by
eclipsing binary stars, plot the changes in luminosity of a variable star and
even detect an exoplanet orbiting another star.
Rick Boozer’s presentation on stellar photometry will generally
demonstrate how he used the Magnitude Measurement Tool (that comes with the
renowned astronomical imaging software known as AIP4WIN by Richard Berry and
Robert Burnell) in an attempt to detect a known exoplanet orbiting the star
Gliese 876.
The Amazing Magellanic Clouds: What Nobody Knew Until Now
Covers some eye-opening discoveries concerning our Milky Way
Galaxy’s two most prominent satellite galaxies.
Includes some of the Mr. Boozer’s work on the Large Magellanic Cloud
using data from the ATCA radio interferometer.
Much of this astounding information has not appeared in Astronomy or Sky and Telescope.
Astrophotography with Robotic Telescopes at
Remote Distances
Mr. Boozer presents many of the most impressive images he obtained
under a grant of telescope time on instruments in New Mexico and Australia that
he controlled over the internet from his home in Greer, South Carolina.
Spreading Americans into the Solar System, starting NOW
What’s holding
US back and how to fix it
Rick Boozer, member of the Space Development Steering Committee and
author of the book The Plundering of NASA explains how NASA can do exciting
manned spaceflight back to the Moon, an asteroid and Mars without
raising NASA’s budget.
Galileo's Fingers
Rick's newest presentation is a photographic exhibition covering a thousand years of scientific research instruments. More information is available here: http://astromaven.blogspot.com/2015/03/galileos-fingers-photographic.html
About the speaker:
R.D. (Rick) Boozer is an astrophysics
researcher, public speaker, spaceflight advocate, author of the book The
Plundering of NASA and member of the Space
Development Steering Committee. He has a Master of Astronomy degree
in astrophysics with high distinction and was awarded the University Medal “for
outstanding academic achievement at the Master’s level”. From childhood
he has been an enthusiast for all things related to astronomy and space travel. He has been the featured guest on such
globally popular space issues shows as The
Space Show with Dr. David Livingston, Spacevidcast and Mars Pirate Radio. His public speaking engagements on
astronomy and spaceflight as well (as his articles for such online publications
as Space.com and The Space Review) have been received by audiences with enthusiasm. He runs the science education websites Astro Maven Blog and Singularity Scientific as a public service.
