- Intro & Welcome by Reg Dunkley
- RASC Windsor Centre’s 80th Anniversary Banquet – Peter Jedicke
- Memorabilia for sale
- Over 80 attendees
- History of Windsor Centre
- Good food and a cake
- No in-person General Assembly since 2019, so this event was lots of fun
- David H. Levy – guest speaker
- Jack Newton deceased – Reg Dunkley
- David Lee joined Victoria Centre in 1994, and attended an event at Jack and Alice’s home and observatory in Sooke. Digital imaging was new back then, but Jack was an early adopter, moving from film to digital. David has many of Jack’s astronomy books.
- Jack made a big contribution to astronomy across Canada and the rest of the world.
- Glass Orchestra – contact Randy Enkin to participate pastpres@victoria.rasc.ca
- Newcombe Singers Choir – Concert: “Sunrise Mass” – Dec 13th and 14th
- Volunteers with telescopes also needed
- See Nov 3 Astronomy Cafe meeting notes for details
- Astronomy Cafe Buy and Sell on Nov 24th – Items For Sale:
- Mike Nash’s gear – photo gallery (didn’t speak)
- Victoria Centre Inventory – David Lee
- 6″ Newtonian on Equatorial Mount (AC poor) – needs repair, but a good scope for free
- Skywatcher 120mm refractor and alt/az mount – asking $500
- Celestron 80mm refractor on an alt/az mount – asking $125
- Ioptron Mini-tower 1 with tripod –
- Joe Carr (didn’t speak)
- Skywatcher 6″ Dobsonian – fully equipped with 2 eyepieces, dew heaters, red dot finder – $450
- Sellers and Buyers – send a list of your items For Sale or WTB to Joe to be listed on our website ahead of the event day – web@victoria.rasc.ca
- Halley Research Station in Antarctica – Natasha van Bentum
- Operated by British Antarctic Survey
- Not dedicated to astronomy, but researches earth, atmospheric and space weather, including aurora
- Modules are regularly relocated due to being on the Brunt ice shelf, which moves 1km a year
- Ozone Hole discovered from this research station
- Instruments: radar, magnetometers and spectrophotometer
- CJ Sandoz has worked at Concordia Station – future presentation
- Aurora from Saskatchewan – Ben Spiller
- Smartphone photos show lots of red colour
- Space Missions – Chris Gainor
- ESCAPADE Mars Mission
- Successful launch happened last Thursday
- Twin spacecraft heading to Mars
- Arrival to Mars in about a year
- Measure magnetosphere
- Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket successfully landed on a drone ship in the ocean
- ESCAPADE Mars Mission
- Thoughts on Electromagnetism Present and Past – Reg Dunkley
- Explains the helical tail of a comet – caused by magnetic field meteor
- “The Wrench” in the Rosette Nebula – NOIRLab
- Aurora – geomatics storms
- Dipole outflows from M82 – magnetic forces? Center For Astrophysics at Harvard
- An Ultra-Fast Outflow Causes Scientists To Lower Mass Estimates Of The Brightest Quasar In the Universe– by Andy Tomaswick, Universe Today
- History of Electromagnetism
- Michael Faraday
- Electromagnetic rotation – first electric motor
- Electromagnetic Induction – generating electricity
- Electricity Disk Generator
- Scientific outreach proponent
- Sir Humphrey Davy
- Hans Christian Oersted
- Andre-Marie Ampere
- William Thomson – Lord Kelvin
- James Clerk Maxwell – reduced the discoveries of Faraday, Ampere and Static Electricity into a set of 20 equations describing relationships between Electricity, Magnetism and Light. Oliver Heaviside simplified them to 4 equations.
- Royal Institution in London
- Michael Faraday
- Lauri Roche
- RASC Observers calendars will be available for pickup from Lauri at at next week’s Astro Cafe Buy and Sell – $22 each
- Nov 12th UVic meeting – Maximizing image resolution for ground-based telescopes using Adaptive Optics – our speaker Dr. Maaike van Kooten was fabulous, with over 40 attendees.
- Nov 29th – Sid’s Memorial Service is in the afternoon, Centre of the Universe fundraiser in the evening.
Next week’s Astronomy Cafe is the Buy & Sell – an in-person only event. We return to hybrid online and in-person meetings in two weeks’ time on Dec 1st.
Video recording of the meeting
Astronomy Cafe – Nov 17, 2025
