The Messier Marathon from Victoria was a bust this year. Both March 28 and 29 were cloudy, so it was called off. Our member Elizabeth van Akker spends her winters in New Mexico, and had much better luck: Hello, all, from
Early bird registration for the 2014 General Assembly
Join the RASC Victoria Centre as we host the 2014 GA from June 26 – June 29. Register before midnight on April 10th, 2014 and take advantage of the $130.00 early bird registration fee. The 2014 GA registration fee increases
Astronomy Day – May 3, 2014
Time/Location: Saturday, May 3, 10am-4pm at the Royal BC Museum, and 8pm-11pm at Observatory Hill Event Poster (4.9Mb PDF) It was wonderful to see so many enjoy themselves! In spite of the cloudy weather during the day and evening, the Victoria Centre’s
Island Star Party – update on site improvements
Thinking forward to the August 22/23/24 Island Star Party. I dropped in to Bright Angel Park the other afternoon and ran in to a CVRD park fellow there. (Graham). We spoke for a few minutes about the work that is
Through Infra-red Goggles Darkly – an engineer’s view of climate change!
Victoria Centre’s monthly meeting, held on Wednesday March 12, 2014 in room A104 of the Bob Wright Centre, UVic, at 19:30. A Short Bio of Dr. Parvez Kumar, P.Eng., FCASI (this latter is Fellow of the Canadian Aeronautics & Space