- Intro & Welcome by Kirsten Pedersen
- Bruce McCurdy – memories by Dave Robinson
- Died of a heart attack in Edmonton a few days ago
- Longtime contributor to the Observers Handbook and volunteer at RASC Edmonton
- A dedicated host at the Telus Science Centre in Edmonton
- Edmonton Journal’s hockey blog contributor
- Vancouver Island Science Fair – David Lee, Lauri Roche
- Our judges: Lauri Roche, Dave Payne, Les Welch, David Lee
- Book Prizes awarded
- It IS Rocket Science – Linnaia Myhre, Grade 5, Pacific Christian
- Plants on Mars – Thea Picardi, Grade 6, St. Michaels
- Cosmic Wonder & The Language of the Stars – award books by Nathan Hellner-Mestelman
- Other astronomy and space
- The Language of the Stars – by Nathan Hellner-Mestelman
- Book launch at Bolen Books tomorrow
- Tickets required ($5)
- Breakthrough Prize – Kirsten Pedersen
- New Horizons in Physics Awardee: Dr. Maaike van Kooten, Herzberg
- Designed adaptive optics systems for detection of small exoplanets
- Press Release
- Artemis II Mission patch – Natasha van Bentum
- About a year away from launch
- Rocket being assembled at the Cape and astronauts are pracicing splashdowns
- Artemis II Insignia – NASA
- Artemis II Mission – Canada Space Agency
- Zodiacal Light – Part 1 – Randy Enkin
- Reference: Interplanetary Dust – Roy Bishop in RASC Observers Handbook
- Review of historical publications for Zodiacal Light
- Survey of Radial Velocity – thesis (1972-74, 2006-2007) by Brian May (pdf)
- Imperial College Astronomy Department
- Relative radial velocity
- Doppler-modified Fraunhofer line along the Ecliptic
- 5183.6 Angstrom spectrometer inside a building with a choelostat on the roof
- Discussion of the data, processing, graphical output
- Ulysses spacecraft registered particle impacts from the Zodiacal Cloud in the solar system
- Particles in the Zodiacal Cloud rotate along with the planets
- Torroidal dust cloud?
- FDAO Open House at the CU – Lauri Roche
- Tours, planetarium shows, look around at the facilities
- This weekend (afternoon & evening)
- RASC General Assembly – April 26-27th
- $30 for 2 days – sign-up online
- UVic April 9th monthly meeting – Kirsten Pederson
- 7:30PM in the Bob Wright A104
- What’s Up in the Sky – David Lee
- Space Mission News – Chris Gainor
- Galaxies Under the Microscope: How the Latest Telescopes Are Transforming Our View of the Universe – Dr. Toby Brown, astronomer at the Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Centre
- Special Announcement by Chris Gainor and Laurie Roche!
- Saturnian Moons – Part 1 – Kirsten Pederson
- Review of Saturn
- Subsurface storms, intense heat
- Rings and moons
- Naming moons
- Timeline and history of the discovery of Saturn’s moons
- 8 moons discovered by early telescopes, starting in 1665
- Photographic plates and observatories discovered the next wave of moons
- Spacecraft discovered more moons in modern times – Voyager, Cassini
- Recent discovery of 128 new moons by a team using CFHT, total is now 274!
- Image of the 274 moons’ orbits
- Part II of presentation (to come later)
- Spacecraft to Saturn
- Highlights of Amazing Moons
- The future
- Review of Saturn
- Astrophotos & Observing
- Omega, Eagle and Swan Nebulae – Ken McGill
- 89 5-minute subs
- Taken from Cattle Point last year using a wide-file Red Cat refractor
- Caldwell 7 small galaxy – Dave Payne
- Cattle Point view of group observing from Cattle Point on Thursday – Randy Enkin
- Winter Albireo double star observation from Cattle Point – Kirsten Pedersen
- Omega, Eagle and Swan Nebulae – Ken McGill
- Space News – Chris Gainor
Video transcript of meeting
Astronomy Cafe – April 7, 2025