| 1999 | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic | |
| April | ![]() | Jay McNeil | NHAC | Planetary Nebula |
| May | No meeting | |||
| June | No meeting | |||
| July | ![]() | Bill Leach | Kingwood College | Black Holes |
| August | Jill Bowers | NHAC | Cyberspace Astronomy | |
| September | ![]() | Ron Carman | NHAC | Telescope Optics |
| October NHAC Meeting | ![]() | Don Pearce | HAS | Thin Moons and Eclipses |
| November | ![]() | Bill Leach | KingWood College | The Temporal and Spatial Nature of the Universe |
| December | ![]() | Bill Leach | KingWood College | Great Moments in 20th Century Physics |
| 2000 | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic | |
| January | ![]() | Keith Rivich | FBAC | Images From the Hubble Space Telescope |
| February | ![]() | Ron Carman | NHAC | Time Keeping |
| March | ![]() | Bill Leach | Kingwood College | Interstellar Medium |
| April | ![]() | Dr. Larry Pinsky | Univ. of Houston | Measurement of the Expansion Using Type 1 Supernovae |
| May | ![]() | Jay McNeil | NHAC | The Texas Star Party 2000: An Observer’s Paradise |
| June | ![]() | Dr. JC Reina | NHAC | Women in Astronomy and Their Contributions |
| July | Eric Rothgeb | The Multi-Element Eyepiece | ||
| August | ![]() | Bill Leach | Kingwood College | Radio Astronomy and the New Green Bank Telescope |
| September | ![]() | Ron Carman | NHAC | Telescope Optics |
| October NHAC Meeting | Scott Mitchell | Archeoastronomy; The Mystery of the Pyramids |
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| November | Brent Buckalew | Kuiper Belt Objects | ||
| December | ![]() | Paul Downing | NHAC | CCDs: The Digital Revolution |
| 2001 | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic | |
| January | ![]() | Larry Mitchell | HAS | Observation Astronomy Using The Hubble Space Telescope |
| February | ![]() | Barbara Wilson | George Observatory | Diamonds in the Sky |
| March | Dr. Louis Binder | Vision and Astronomy | ||
| April | ![]() | Dr. Reginald DuFour | Rice Univ. | The Observable Edge of the Universe |
| May | ![]() | Bill Leach | Kingwood College | Faster than Light and Back Through Time |
| June | ![]() | Cynthia Gustava | HMNS | Mars: Up Close and Personal |
| July | ![]() | Dennis Webb | HAS | Arp’s Peculiar Galaxies |
| August | Jose Sancho | Telescope Collimation and Alignment | ||
| September | ![]() | Triple Nickel | NASA | The Neutrino Problem |
| October NHAC Meeting | ![]() | Stephen James O’Meara | 19th Century Astronomy in the 21st Century | |
| November | Larry Ridolfi | USAF (ret.) | Collision Measurements Between Orbits | |
| December | Brent Buckalew | Jay and Studious Brent’s Great Adventures in NGC 1569 | ||
| 2002 | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic | |
| January | ![]() | Gary Seronik | Sky&Telescope | Inside the Scene at Sky&Telescope |
| February | ![]() | Bill Leach | Kingwood College | Black Holes |
| March | ![]() | Don Pearce | HAS | Comets |
| April | Phil Inderweissen | Light Pollution | ||
| May | Bill Dillion | Asteroid Discoveries | ||
| June | ![]() ![]() | Paul Downing & Bill Leach | NHAC | Why Do We See What We See |
| July | ![]() | Larry Mitchell | HAS | Volcanoes & Astronomy |
| August | ![]() | Barbara Wilson | George Observatory | Globular Clusters |
| September | ![]() | Brian Cudnik | HAS | Lunar Impacts |
| October Regional Meeting | ||||
| October NHAC Meeting | Scott Mitchell | Southern Skies Star Party | ||
| November | ![]() | James Wooten | HMNS | Lost Sheep |
| December | ![]() | Bill Leach | Kingwood College | The Epoch of Stars |
| 2003 | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic | |
| January | Katherine Keilty | Kingwood College | Supernovae Remnants | |
| February | Brent Buckalew | Galileo Mission to Jupiter | ||
| March | ![]() | Bill Leach | Kingwood College | The What and Why of Galaxies |
| April | ![]() | Larry Mitchell | HAS | The When and Where of Galaxies |
| May | ![]() | Paul Downing | NHAC | Digital Imaging |
| June | ![]() | Bill Leach | Kingwood College | The Inner Scantum |
| July | Dennis Borgman | FBAC | The Moon | |
| August | Billie Harland | ASSET | Star Lore | |
| September | Peter Nolan | Judith River Dinosaur Institute Paleontologist | Mesozoic Mass Massacre Mysteries | |
| October Regional Meeting | ||||
| October NHAC Meeting | ![]() ![]() | Skully Skulborstad, Dave Clark, Don Taylor | NHAC | The Digital (Imaging) Dudes |
| November | Brian Schmaefsky | Kingwood College | Exploring Exobiology: Facts and Myth | |
| December | ![]() |
Aaron Clevenson | NHAC | A Tribute to Charles Messier |
| 2004 | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic | |
| January | ![]() | Dr. David Black | Rice U. | A Taxonomy of the Creatures that Inhabit the Extra-solar Planet Zoo |
| February | ![]() | Eleta Malewitz | JSCAS | Mars Observations Throughout History |
| March | ![]() | Larry Mitchell | HAS | William Herschel and the Herschel Objects |
| April | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Bill Leach, Paul Downing & Don Taylor | NHAC | 5th Anniversary Celebration |
| May | Hernan Contreras | JSCAS | The History of the Telescope from 1508 until Present Day | |
| June | ![]() | Steve Edberg | JPL | Cassini Mission to Saturn |
| July | Steve Nathan | AL Lunar Observing Club Coordinator | Lunacy&Lunatics | |
| August | ![]() | Bill Leach | Kingwood College | Cataclysmic Variables |
| September | ![]() | Dennis Webb | JSCAS | To Touch the Light of Faraway Planets |
| October Regional Meeting | ![]() | Jay McNeil | NHAC | McNeil’s Nebula: Backyard Science and Serendipity |
| October NHAC Meeting | No meeting | |||
| November | Larry Ridolfi | USAF (ret.) | Laser Guide Stars and Adaptive Optics for Astronomy” | |
| December | ![]() | Don Pearce | HAS | Comets |
| 2005 | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic | |
| January | ![]() | Darrin Lewin | Land, Sea & Sky | Binoculars |
| February | ![]() | Ed Knapton | NHAC | The NHAC Website |
| February | ![]() | Steve Goldberg | HAS | The Texas Star Party 2005 |
| March | ![]() | Dr. Aaron Clevenson | NHAC | History of Our Knowledge of The Universe |
| April | ![]() | Bill Leach | Kingwood College | Earth Day: The State of the Earth |
| May | ![]() | John R. Strand | JPL (ret.) | Navigation Between the Planets |
| June | NHAC | NHAC | A Centennial Celebration of the Science of Albert Einstein | |
| July | ![]() | Cynthia Gustava | HMNS | The International Space Station: A Jig-Saw Puzzle |
| August | ![]() | Dr. C. Renee James | Sam Houston State Univ. | Stellar Superlatives" |
| September | Cancelled due to Hurricane Rita | |||
| October Regional Meeting | ![]() | Thomas Greathouse | NASA LPI | Planets, Moons and Comets: 2005 |
| October NHAC Meeting | ![]() | Dennis Webb | JSCAS | The Great Wall |
| November | ![]() | Dr. Aaron Clevenson | NHAC | The Life and Times of Tycho Brahe |
| December | ![]() | Bill Leach | Kingwood College | Mars: The Planet |
| 2006 | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic | |
| January | ![]() | Dr. Chris Johns-Krull | Rice Univ. | Current Issues in Low Mass Star Formation" |
| February | ![]() | Bill Leach | Kingwood College | Chandra X-Ray Observatory |
| March | ![]() | Dr. Reggie DuFour | Rice Univ. | Star Birth and Death-Why Should We Care? |
| April | ![]() | Dr. Robert Tribble | Texas A&M | Nuclear Physics and Astronomy |
| May | ![]() | Dr. David L. Talent | Oceanit Labs | Things I Do for the USAF |
| June | ![]() | Bill Leach | Kingwood College | The Red Shift Controversy: Part I |
| July | ![]() | Larry Mitchell | HAS | The Astronomy of Halton Arp |
| August | Larry Ridolfi | USAF (ret.) | Star Sensors-Eyes on the Sky | |
| September | ![]() | Richard Nugent | HAS | History and Identification of the Crab Nebula Supernova |
| October Regional Meeting | ![]() | Dan Burbank | NASA | STS115: Return to ISS Assembly |
| October NHAC Meeting | No meeting | |||
| November | ![]() | Justin McCollum | Lamar Univ. | Great Moons of the Outer Solar System |
| December | Dr. Katherine Keilty | Kingwood College | Neptune and Pluto | |
| 2007 | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic | |
| January | ![]() | James Wooten | HMNS | Meteorites vs. Meteorwrongs |
| February | ![]() | Don Pearce | HAS | McNaught: The Great Comet of 2007 |
| February | ![]() | Don Taylor | NHAC | Narrow Band Imaging (What and Why) |
| March | ![]() | Bill Leach | Kingwood College | The Halton Arp Controversy: Part III - Expansion Vs Ejection |
| April | ![]() | Bill Leach | Kingwood College | Bizarre Astronomical Discoveries of the 21st Century |
| May | ![]() | Paul Shack | NASA | An Overview of the Space Shuttle Program |
| June | n/a | String Theory (video) | ||
| July | ![]() | Darrin Lewin | Land, Sea & Sky | Telescope Design and Eyepieces |
| August | ![]() | Dr. Carlton Allen | NASA JSC | Astromaterials at JSC |
| September | ![]() | Dr. Cherith Letargo | Kingwood College | Plate Techtonics |
| October Regional Meeting | ![]() | Stephen James O’Meara | Comets and the Witch Hysteria of 1692 | |
| October NHAC Meeting | ![]() | Clayton Jeter | ADVANTAGE Telescope Repair | Cleaning Your Optics |
| November | ![]() | Aaron Clevenson | NHAC | Keeping up with Kepler |
| December | ![]() | Larry Mitchell | HAS | The Problem with Pluto |
| 2008 | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic | |
| January | Dr. Katherine Keilty | Lone Star College, Kingwood | Jupiter: The Amazing One | |
| February | ![]() | Dr. Chris Johns-Krull | Rice Univ. | The Search for Exoplanets |
| March | ![]() | Bill Leach | Lone Star College, Kingwood | The 24th Solar Cycle |
| April | ![]() | Carolyn Sumners | HMNS | The Message of Lucy |
| May | ![]() | Dr. Larry Pinsky | Univ. of Houston | The Opposite Ends of the Universe |
| June | ![]() | Bill Leach | Lone Star College, Kingwood | The Truth about Black Holes |
| July | ![]() | Don Pearce | HAS | COMETS: The More we Discover, the Less we Know |
| August | ![]() | Barbara Wilson | George Observatory | Caroline Herschel: The First Great Woman Astronomer |
| September | ![]() | Dr. Patricia Reiff | Rice Univ. | Space Weather |
| October Regional Meeting | ![]() | David Levy | My Life and Times as a Comet Hunter | |
| October NHAC Meeting | No meeting | |||
| November | ![]() | Bill Leach | LoneStar College, Kingwood | The End of the World |
| December | ![]() | Dr. Aaron Clevenson | Administaff Observatory | Gazing with Galileo |
| 2009 | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic | |
| January | ![]() | Alicia Tristan | FBAC | Carbon Stars |
| February | ![]() | Larry Mitchell | HAS | The Andromeda Galaxy |
| March | ![]() | Dr. Thomas Jones | NASA | Planetology: Unlocking the Secrets of the Solar System |
| April | ![]() | Bill Leach | LoneStar College, Kingwood | The Mars Phoenix Lander |
| May | ![]() | Naved Mahmud | Rice Univ. | Searching for Young Planets |
| June | ![]() | Justin McCollum | Lamar Univ. | The Galaxies! |
| July | ![]() | Paul Derrick | CTAS | Our Expanding Universe |
| August | Dr. Katherine Keilty | LoneStar College Kingwood | Venus: Beauty or Beast? | |
| September | ![]() | Dr. Aaron Clevenson | Administaff Observatory | Nucleosynthesis, or Mommy, where did I come from? |
| October Regional Meeting | ![]() | Dr. Brent Archinal | U.S. Geological Survey | The New Reconnaissance of the Moon |
| October NHAC Meeting | No meeting | |||
| November | ![]() | Dr. Aaron Clevenson | Administaff Observatory | Black Holes |
| 2010 | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic | |
| January | ![]() | Justin McCollum | Lamar Univ. | The Galilean Moons |
| February | ![]() | Larry Mitchell | HAS | The Milky Way Galaxy |
| March | ![]() | Dr. Neal Immega | HMNS | Modern Genetics, Darwin and evolution-the last 30 years of progress |
| April | ![]() | Christopher Ferguson | NASA | the Shuttle and International Space Station |
| May | ![]() | Barbara Wilson | George Observatory | The George Observatory |
| June | ![]() | Dr. C. Renee James | Sam Houston State Univ. | Seven Wonders of the Universe (that you probably took for granted) |
| July | ![]() | Clayton Jeter | ADVANTAGE Telescope Repair | The Schmidt Cassegrain...Tips, Tricks, and Secrets |
| August | ![]() | Justin McCollum | Lamar Univ. | Celestial Coordinate Systems |
| September | ![]() | Kathleen Havens | HMNS | Education Programs at HMNS |
| October Regional Meeting | ![]() | Dr. David Talent | U.S. Geological Survey | Modifications to the Space Surveillance Telescope on Haleakala |
| October NHAC Meeting | ![]() | Todd Sullivan | NHAC | The Cassini Mission to Saturn |
| November | ![]() | Ed Knapton | NHAC | Astronomy, the Internet, and You |
| December | Open Forum | Discussion of NHAC in 2011 | ||
| 2011 | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic | |
| January | ![]() | Bill Christian | NHAC | Solar Astronomy |
| February | ![]() | Steve Goldberg | HAS | The Texas Star Party |
| March | ![]() | Steve Grimsley | HAS | Astrophotography - Plain and Simple |
| April | ![]() | Dr. Aaron Clevenson | NHAC, Administaff Observatory | Backyard Radio Astronomy |
| May | ![]() | Bill Leach | LoneStar College-Kingwood NHAC | December 21, 2012 - The End of the World” A Scientific Perspective |
| June | ![]() | John Wakefield | LoneStar College-Montgomery | Dark Energy and Dark Matter |
| July | ![]() | David Haviland | The Barringer Meteor Crater | |
| August | ![]() | Joe Williams | NASA | Orbital Mechanics Basics |
| September | ![]() | Reginald Dufour | Rice University | The Life and Death of Stars |
| October | ![]() | Dave Clark | NHAC | Video Astronomy - Occultations |
| November | ![]() | Ed Knapton | NHAC | Telescope Optics |
| December | ![]() | Aaron Clevenson | NHAC | The Kepler Mission - The Search for Earth |
| 2012 | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic |
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