Join us on Monday October 6th for our next Full Moon-th On-line Meetup! Our guest will be Cliff Stoll, astronomer, teacher and author of the book The Cuckoo’s Egg. Cliff is also also a buddy of Br. Guy!
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Our tradition of hosting online meetups with our Sacred Space Astronomy members and the Vatican Observatory staff, scholars and friends during the Full Moon in Tucson (or thereabout) continues on October 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM Tucson time (Mountain Standard Time time), 12:00 Noon Eastern Daylight time, or 16:00 UTC.
This meetup is a perk for our Sacred Space Astronomy subscribers- you get to chat with each other, and astronomers and scientists from the Vatican Observatory!
We’ll also have the latest astronomy news and an update about the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope1.
Cliff Stoll is an astronomer, author, and teacher known for tracking down a group of German hackers working for the Soviet KGB in 1986.
As a systems administrator at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, while working on the development of the Keck Telescope, Stoll pursued a 75-cent accounting hiccup, ultimately uncovering a major security breach. His book, The Cuckoo’s Egg, details this investigation and became a bestseller.
The 1990 PBS NOVA video: The KGB, The Computer and Me – The Cuckoo’s Egg Story is available on a couple channels on YouTube – it’s hilarious!
Stoll’s work significantly contributed to early cybersecurity awareness.
Stoll is also known for creating and selling glass Klein bottles.
A Klein bottle is a one-sided surface which, if traveled upon, could be followed back to the point of origin while flipping the traveler upside down. It’s an example of a non-orientable surface, or a two-dimensional manifold on which one cannot define a consistent direction perpendicular to the surface (normal vector) that varies continuously over the whole shape. – From Wikipedia. Hope that was helpful!
When? Sunday September 7, 2025: Rain or shine
What time? These meetups will happen around lunch time in North America: in particular, 9:00 AM Tucson, 12:00 Noon ET, 16:00 UTC.
How do you access these meetups? Join Sacred Space Astronomy and you’ll get an email with the full link! If you are already a member, you can also log into this website, and the link will be visible below.
