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Enjoy a Saturday morning hike, guided by Friends of Mt. Tam volunteers.

Explore Mt. Tam trails with others who love the mountain.

Advances in recent decades have allowed amateur astronomers to produce deep space and planetary pictures that rival those taken by professional observatories. This presentation will provide an overview of off-the-shelf instruments and methods anyone, with perseverance and patience, can use to take amazing astronomical images.

Enjoy a Saturday morning hike, guided by Friends of Mt. Tam volunteers.

Explore Mt. Tam trails with others who love the mountain.

Galileo Galilei developed a new method for reliably comprehending the world around us and, accordingly, has been called the father of modern science. We will learn how Galileo‰ЫЄs celestial observations dramatically changed our understanding of the universe and our place in it.

Enjoy a Saturday hike, guided by Friends of Mt. Tam volunteers.

Explore Mt. Tam trails with others who love the mountain.

Discoveries by NASA‰ЫЄs Kepler Mission suggest there are billions of potentially habitable worlds in the Milky Way galaxy. What has the study of planets within and beyond the Solar System taught us about our own planet Earth? And what‰ЫЄs next in the search for life beyond the Solar System?

Enjoy a Saturday morning hike, guided by Friends of Mt. Tam volunteers.