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If you like beer and hearing astronomers talk about astronomy you’ve come to the right place. Actually the right place is Blue Star Brewing Company but you get the idea. Follow us on Facebook or subscribe to the RSS feed to keep up-to-date with our events or watch old ones on our YouTube channel.

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AoT SATX 49: Cataclysmic Variables & Extreme Environments

AoT SATX 49: Cataclysmic Variables & Extreme Environments

The 49th Astronomy on Tap at the Blue Star Brewery in San Antonio, Texas will occur on Wednesday 2024-11-06; talks start at 7pm, doors at 6.30pm.

Tyler Rucas presents “A Look at Cataclysmic Variables with TESS”

Dr. Rachel Slank presents “The Dance of Desert Salts: How the Atacama’s Salt Cycles Teach Us About Extreme Environments”

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AoT SATX 48: Establishing Kosovo's First National Observatory

AoT SATX 48: Establishing Kosovo's First National Observatory

The 48th Astronomy on Tap at the Blue Star Brewery in San Antonio, Texas will occur on Wednesday 2024-10-02; talks start at 7pm, doors at 6.30pm.

Pranvera Hyseni presents “Establishing Kosovo’s First National Observatory”

Robert Reeves also presents “Establishing Kosovo’s First National Observatory”

The event will also be available to stream live or afterwards on facebook and YouTube

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AoT SATX 47: Space Weather Report

AoT SATX 47: Space Weather Report

The 47th Astronomy on Tap at the Blue Star Brewery in San Antonio, Texas will occur on Wednesday 2024-09-04; talks start at 7pm, doors at 6.30pm.

Dr. Robert Ebert presents “Making SWiPS: The Solar Wind Monitor for NOAA’s Space Weather Mission, SWFO-L1”

Kimberly Moreland presents “Unlocking the Secrets of the Sun - Inside NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center”

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AoT SATX 46: Solar Sails & Cosmic Rays

AoT SATX 46: Solar Sails & Cosmic Rays

The 46th Astronomy on Tap at the Blue Star Brewery in San Antonio, Texas will occur on Wednesday 2024-08-07; talks start at 7pm, doors at 6.30pm.

Dr. Dhirendra Kataria presents “The answer my friends, is blowing in the wind - the story of solar sailing and a few other tales”

Samuel Hart presents “Discovering Cosmic Radiation - Priests, Balloons, & Solar Eclipses”

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AoT SATX 45: Europa Special

AoT SATX 45: Europa Special

The 45th Astronomy on Tap at the Blue Star Brewery in San Antonio, Texas will occur on Wednesday 2024-07-03; talks start at 7pm, doors at 6.30pm.

Dr. Kelly Miller presents “How is NASA’s Europa Clipper Mission Like a Seabird”

Dr. Ujjwal Raut presents “Exploring Europa with Spacecrafts that Never Launch”

The event will also be available to stream live or afterwards on facebook and YouTube

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AoT SATX 44: Weather on Venus

AoT SATX 44: Weather on Venus

The 44 Astronomy on Tap at the Blue Star Brewery in San Antonio, Texas will occur on Wednesday 2024-06-05; talks start at 7pm, doors at 6.30pm.

Dr. Sara Port presents “Snow on Venus? Exploring the Origin of the Planet’s Reflective Mountains”

Dinesh Radhakrishnan presents “The Curious Case of Lightning on Venus”

The event will also be available to stream live or afterwards on facebook and YouTube

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AoT SATX 43: Exoplanets & Anime

AoT SATX 43: Exoplanets & Anime

The 43 Astronomy on Tap at the Blue Star Brewery in San Antonio, Texas will occur on Wednesday 2024-05-01; talks start at 7pm, doors at 6.30pm.

Dr. Amílcar Torres-Quijano presents “Using Machine Learning to Predict Host Stars and the Key Elemental Abundances of Small Planets”

Dr. Roman Gomez presents “The Physics of Anime - Abridged”

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AoT SATX 42: Total Solar Eclipse!

AoT SATX 42: Total Solar Eclipse!

The 42nd Astronomy on Tap at the Blue Star Brewery in San Antonio, Texas will occur on Wednesday 2024-04-03; talks start at 7pm, doors at 6.30pm.

Dr. Angela Speck presents “The Moon’s Shadow: how solar eclipses took over my life”

Cody Cly presents “Understanding Indigenous Teachings of the Eclipse”

The event will also be available to stream live or afterwards on facebook and YouTube

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AoT SATX 41: Titan and Luna

AoT SATX 41: Titan and Luna

The 41 Astronomy on Tap at the Blue Star Brewery in San Antonio, Texas will occur on Wednesday 2024-03-06; talks start at 7pm, doors at 6.30pm.

Dr. Xinting Yu presents “A Flight Over the Mysterious Hydrocarbon Lakes on Saturns’s Moon Titan”

Robert Reeves presents “Lunar Orbiter Divides the Old Moon from the New”

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AoT SATX 40: Solar Eclipse & Cosmic Giants

AoT SATX 40: Solar Eclipse & Cosmic Giants

The 40th Astronomy on Tap at the Blue Star Brewery in San Antonio, Texas will occur on Wednesday 2024-02-07; talks start at 7pm, doors at 6.30pm.

Dr. Lindsay Fuller presents “Total Eclipse of the Heart of Texas”

Dr. Dana Koeppe presents “Cosmic Giants”

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