Meeting transcript video
- Super PupZ kids’ series – David Lee
- Netflix series shot on southern Vancouver Island, including the Plaskett observatory
- Dave Balum an advisor for the series
- Astronomy Day – May 7th – David Lee
- Our first in-person event for the last couple of years is being planned
- Day event at the Royal BC Museum – public welcome, inside and outside
- Welcome desk
- Telescopes Show and Tell
- Astrophotography
- Children’s Astro Crafts
- Responsible Lighting
- Planetarium
- Solar Observing from the plaza outside
- Ask an Astronomer
- Speakers in the Newcombe
- Friends of the DAO
- NRC/DAO
- University of Victoria
- Science Venture
- Cross-Canada RASC National virtual event – Victoria to contribute
- Evening event on Observatory Hill (pending NRC approval for public event)
- Volunteers are welcome – contact David Lee (email) or Lauri Roche (email)
- SIGs – David Lee
- Getting Started in Astronomy – tomorrow
- Electronically Assisted Astronomy – Thursday
- Edmonton Astrophotos – Dave Robinson
- Solar Sunspots in both Ha & white light – Arnold Rivera
- Future presentation to Astro Cafe on solar activity and features – Chris Purse
- Aurora – Randy Enkin
- Alex Taalman aurora photos from March 30th – pending display
- Sunspotter viewer
- Sunspot frequency and historical observations
- Space Weather Essentials – Sun and Earth
- How Aurora happens
- Aurora: Mysteries of the Northern Lights – Robert L. Lysak (Youtube)
- Aurora stories from members
- Astronomy Cafe – Joe Carr
- Astrophotos – Martin Gisborne
- Aurora: In Search of the Northern Lights – Dr. Melanie Windridge – Amazon
- Saving the Starry Night – Patrizia A. Caraveo – Springer
- Astrophotos – Martin’s gallery
- Hercules Cluster M13
- NGC 4565 – edge-on galaxy, and other galaxies
- M106 galaxy
- ISS streak
- Widefield view of many galaxies in Markarian Chain region
- IC405 nebula
- M101 Whirlpool Galaxy
- M42 Orion Nebula – reprocessed 2019 image and recent 2022 versions
- M81 & M82
- M81 galaxy
- Selling his Celestron CGEM mount soon
Astronomy Cafe – Apr 4, 2022