Video transcript of the meeting
- The Birds, Pacific Victoria Opera – Randy Enkin
- Featured the Moon
- Land of the Birds
- Funny and serious story
- Zodiacal Light – Randy Enkin
- APOD photo showing both Venus and Jupiter in the middle of the light spire
- Brian May showed the Doppler Shift in the Zodiacal Light, finished his thesis 30 years after starting the research before his music career with Queen
- Photos of the Zodiacal Light by Victoria Centre members John McDonald and Joe Carr
- Citizen Science – David Lee
- Definitions – Sky & Telescope, NASA, SpaceHack
- Concise instructions given to participants/contributors
- Data archive used to share observations
- Community shares their skill sets in the interest of collaboration
- Light Pollution – Globe At Night
- 6 easy steps
- February & March campaigns
- New constellations to observe each month
- Variable star observations – AAVSO
- Beginners SIG observed Algol last summer
- 54 million variable star observations
- Astronomy-focused citizen science projects – S&T>Get Involved>citizen-science-collaboration
- Citizen Science – new SIG
- Thu, March 9th 7:30pm
- Contact David Lee to participate – email
- Galaxy Cruise – Japan
- Images from Subaru telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawai’i
- Introductory demonstrations
- Radio observations during solar eclipses
- Big Changes at RASC National – Bill Weir & Chris Gainor
- Skynews magazine ceasing operation
- Robotic Telescope – project terminated
- Staff departures at the national office, including Phil Groff, Executive Director
- Charles Ennis, RASC President – sent out a note to the national RASC email list
- History and perspective on RASC financial woes – Chris Gainor
- Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF photos & sketches – Brock Johnston
- Jan 19th – earliest taken by David Lee
- Collection of comet photos taken by Victoria Centre members
- Photographers & sketchers: Lucky Budd, Bill Weir, Dave Payne, David Lee, Dan Posey, Alec Lee, Brock Johnston, Ron Fisher
- Feb 23rd – last image taken
- Underground Railway & Night Sky by Amy Archer – Lauri Roche
- Suggest Amy to be a speaker to RASC Victoria Centre
- Odd-looking crater feature observed – Bill Weir
- South of Short crater
- Appeared as 4 white dots visually
- Astronomy Day – Randy Enkin & others
- FDAO holding Astronomy Day on Observatory Hill – April 29th
- RASC will hold Astronomy Day on April 30th – Bob Wright building at UVic – need a coordinator
- Victoria Centre Annual Events – Randy Enkin
- AGM – March 13th online (members only)
- Dinner, celebration and social event – March 27th in-person (members & guests)
Astronomy Cafe – Feb 27, 2023