Transcript video of the meeting
- Galaxy hunting with just a camera (no telescope) – John McDonald
- Photo of Leo the Lion Constellation taken with a 50mm lens from Cattle Point
- 88 minutes of exposure, used a blur filter for some of the exposures
- Leo Triplet – obvious
- Leo 1 Group
- NGC 2903 – barred galaxy
- Asteroid Vesta – movement between 11th and 13th
- Hickson Group in neck of Leo – Bill Weir
- Dwarf galaxy near Regulus
- Daguerre crater – Randy Enkin
- Photo of Sun & sunspots – Fizeau & Foucault at Paris Observatory on April 2, 1845
- Dial-A-Moon – NASA – annotated lunar photo
- Mike Nash’s photo captured Daguerre crater on the 16th
- Favourable weather for observing – Reg Dunkley
- University of Washington
- IR loop
- GOES satellite images – every 5 minutes
- North Pole view of the 500 millibar layer – mid-point of atmosphere – shows an Omega block (giving us very stable air)
- By this Saturday, we are getting a Cold Low, causing unstable air and cloud cover
- University of Washington
- Edmonton RASC members’ photos – Dave Robinson
- NGC 2403 galaxy in Camelopardalis – Arnold Rivera
- Aurora and old shed – Warren Findlay
- M51 Whirlpool Galaxy and galaxy cluster, quasar (mag 20) – Abdur Anwar
- Nu Virginis occulted by the Moon on Friday – David Lee
- Given poor weather forecast, we are unlikely to be able to observe
- IOTA site has occultation predictions
- Grazing occultations are quite interesting, showing the lunar mountains, but this isn’t a grazing event
- QHYCCD GPS Sync Timer module – can be used with existing cameras using a NTP time server (GPS)
- Discussion about imaging – David Lee, Brock Johnston
- Amateur Astronomer certificate received by Marjie from Kalamazoo
- Moon At Noon – RASC program – Lauri Roche & Chris Purse
- Lauri sketched the Moon using her 8″ SCT