Meeting transcript video
- Observatory Tour video for GA – David Lee
- Would like some live video
- RASC General Assembly – May 4 & 5, 2024 – Lauri Roche
- $15 for whole event
- Bill Weir & Randy Enkin giving presentations Saturday morning
- Gather Town – Saturday evening
- Eclipse photos for 2025 Observers’ Calendar – submission deadline tomorrow
- Street Lighting in Uplands – Dave Robinson
- Dark sky friendly fixtures in original design, but overruled by Oak Bay Council after public hearing
- Victoria Centre held a one hour meeting with councillors
- Issue being taken back to council to reconsider a better option
- Possible impact on Cattle Point dark sky site if planned fixtures are installed
- Vancouver Island Science Fair – Randy Enkin
- 63rd regional science fair for Vancouver Island
- 100 participants this year
- Transiting Exoplanet Data project, and two other astronomy related project
- Prize from Victoria Centre awarded – youth memberships
- Sending plants into high orbit using a balloon – Nathan Hellner-Mestleman
- Cosmic Wonder – Nathan Hellner-Mestleman
- Book launch event at Bolen Books on May 7th – Bob MacDonald interviewing Nathan
- Chris Gainor
- May 8th speaker for May 8th UVic meeting? Possibly a members’ night instead.
- James Webb Space Telescope – beautiful new image of Horsehead Nebula
- Astronomy Day – May 18th – Randy Enkin, Lauri Roche
- Planning is going well
- May 14th is final planning meeting, so email will be used for event planning
- Royal BC Museum – daytime 10AM-3PM
- Victoria Day weekend means traffic in the will be very congested, so volunteers should plan accordingly
- Need volunteer to let cars have access for unloading on Saturday morning – contact Lauri Roche (roche.lauri@gmail.com)
- Observatory Hill – evening 7:30PM-11PM
- Tickets will be available two weeks ahead of time – event
- Presentation – Looking for precious metals at the end of the galactic rainbow – Dr. Trystyn Berg
- Cosmic Wonder – book selling – Nathan Hellner-Mestleman
- Refreshed shop with lots of stock
- Volunteers with telescopes needed – contact Aimee Rawson (arawson@centreoftheuniverse.org)
- Three Vesper telescopes – digital telescopes for outreach
- Trainees for 16″ telescope – Sherry Buttnor is the teacher – contact Lauri Roche
- Beginners SIG – now being held on May 15th – David Lee
- Eclipse Topics – Randy Enkin
- Dorner Telescope Museum visit at RASC in Toronto – hosted by Randall Rosenfeld
- Tables of the Moon and Sun – historical book by Jean Meiss with Peter Broughton’s 1982 notes and letter
- A Sign in the Sky: Dating the League of the Haudenosaunee – by Barbara Mann and Jerry Fields – eclipse report from Indigenous Mohawks (possibly Aug 22, 1142)
- Astronomy History
- Wray-Bryden telescope – more information and video presentation is needed for the Centre of the Universe – contact Lauri Roche (roche.lauri@gmail.com)
- Gonzales Observatory – history
- Looking Up – Peter Broughton – book of the history of RASC
- FDAO Star Party – May 4th 7:30PM – Bob McDonald presenting
Three Astronomy Cafes left before summer.
Astronomy Cafe – April 29, 2024
