Recorded Talks and Presentations
Videos of talks and presentations at the Observatory.
Movie Night: “Big Astronomy” w/ Dr. Shannon Schmoll
March 23, 2023
Dr. Shannon Schmoll, director of the MSU Abrams Planetarium, discusses Big Astronomy, or Astronomia a Gran Escala, a documentary that she and others produced to share the story of the people and places who make big astronomy and big science happen. The show takes visitors to the extreme sites where astronomy happens in the most extreme environments and with some of the most interesting people.
Science @DO: “Mirror, mirror in the basement…” with Prof. Pat Seitzer
March 16, 2023
Science@DO was joined by U-M Astronomy Professor emeritus Pat Seitzer to share the story of a giant telescope mirror that once lived in the Detroit Observatory basement and found a home in a telescope across the Atlantic Ocean.
Michigan Archives Night: Dark Days, White Nights: American North Russia Expeditionary Force in Archangel, 1918-1919 with Olga Virakhovskaya
December 8, 2022
Olga Virakhovskaya, the Lead Archivist for Collections Management at the Bentley Historical Library, discusses the American military intervention at Archangel, Russia, at the end of World War I, nicknamed the “Polar Bear Expedition" -- a strange episode in American history. Talk given December 8, 2022.
