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  • Custom URL: @svastronomylectures
  • Country: United States 🇺🇸
  • Description language: English

  • YouTube channel type
  • Audience: 30.2K
  • Video Views: 4.1M
  • # videos: 91
  • Estimated Earnings: $1.02K - $16.41K
  • Category: Knowledge
  • Date Created: 2013-01-30
  • Date Updated: 2024-07-12
Audience activity: 135
Views per video: 45.08K
Keywords: silicon valley astronomy lecture series science space


Founded in 1999, the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures are presented on six Wednesday evenings during each school year at Foothill College, in the heart of California's Silicon Valley. Speakers over the years have included a wide range of noted scientists, explaining astronomical developments in everyday language. A generous donation by one of our supporters is now enabling us to record the lectures and make them freely available to the public on the Web. The series is organized and moderated by Foothill's astronomy instructor emeritus Andrew Fraknoi and jointly sponsored by the Foothill College Physical Science, Math, and Engineering Division, the SETI Institute, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and the University of California Observatories (including the Lick Observatory), (all of whose links you can find below).