October 21, 2020, via Zoom webinar The year 2021 promises some great stargazing opportunities, with chances to see comets, dying stars, galaxies, and, of course the planets! Dan Johnson, long-time amateur astronomer, member of the Astronomical Society of Kansas City, and volunteer instructor at the Powell Observatory, explains what you can expect to see in the night sky with a small telescope in the coming year. The speaker: Dan Johnson is a long-time amateur astronomer. He grew up in Central Kansas at the edge of suburbia where you could look up and see the Milky Way. He received his first telescope in the fifth grade, and that’s where his love of astronomy began. Dan moved to Kansas City after graduating from Kansas State University and joined one of the largest astronomy societies in the country, the Astronomical Society of Kansas City (ASKC), where he volunteered at Kansas City’s Powell Observatory in the early 1990s. Today, he owns one of the largest private telescopes in Kansas City and is currently a volunteer instructor at Powell Observatory.

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