{"id":7757,"date":"2025-11-05T18:53:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T18:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/lunarvise\/?p=7757"},"modified":"2025-11-05T19:00:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:00:40","slug":"the-albuquerque-astronomical-societys-taas-cosmic-carnival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/lunarvise\/2025\/11\/05\/the-albuquerque-astronomical-societys-taas-cosmic-carnival\/","title":{"rendered":"The Albuquerque Astronomical Society&#8217;s (TAAS) Cosmic Carnival"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t<div class=\"jumbotron jumbotron-fluid mb-0 bg-inverse\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tstyle=\"background: url('https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/lunarvise\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2024\/09\/Empty-Space-and-Stars-BG-notBlue.jpg') no-repeat fixed top left;background-size:cover; padding-bottom: 32px\"\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tstyle=\"font-size:1.25rem;\">\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"heading-underline h2\">The Albuquerque Astronomical Society&#8217;s (TAAS) Cosmic Carnival<\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"text-primary\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Saturday, November 1, 2025<\/h3>\n<div class=\"event-details row justify-content-between\">\n<div class=\"event-descr text-justify\">\nThe Albuquerque Astronomical Society (TAAS) and the Open Space Visitor Center hosted a day of exhibits and evening stargazing. Dr. Thomas Prettyman represented the Lunar-VISE and Psyche missions by demonstrating a cart mounted gamma ray spectrometer used for analog geologic studies. He also shared presentation materials about Lunar-VISE and displayed meteorites relevant to both Lunar-VISE and Psyche. In the evening, Dr. Prettyman set up an 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope for observations he planned of the Gruithuisen Domes.\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"event-loc-contact\"><b class=\"text-info\">Location:<\/b>Albuquerque Open Space Visitor Center<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"text-info\">Contact:<\/b><br \/>\nDr. Thomas Prettyman<br \/>\nprettyman@psi.edu<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"height: 500px\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-fullscreen.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-7757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-event"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/lunarvise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/lunarvise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/lunarvise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/lunarvise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/lunarvise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7757"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/lunarvise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7778,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/lunarvise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7757\/revisions\/7778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/lunarvise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/lunarvise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/lunarvise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}