- Lisa Dang, PhD Student McGill – Marjie Welchframe (Women in Astronomy series)
- 1st principal investigator to use JWST using MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument)
- Hot Jupiters’ atmospheres gas giant exoplanets with very short orbital periods
- Erin Gibbons presentation : Perseverance First Year on Mars – RASC Montreal Centre online – Jeff Pivnick
- Erin is an Astrobiologist
- Payload specialist for the Supercam remote sensing instrument aboard Perseverance
- Search for life on Mars – primary mission
- Ingenuity drone is being used to scout routes for the rover
- Stromatolites on Mars
- Perseverance landed on west side, inside of Jezero Crater – indications of flowing water
- John McDonald
- Changes at Ross Place – building a construction crane
- Photo of the Orion Nebula and Lunar surface taken by the new Victoria Centre Observatory’s OGS telescope and QHY camera
- Cosmic Generation – Nathan Hellner-Mestelman
- Youth astronomy group being formed
- First meeting was Feb 13th
- Next meeting is Mar 13th – sign up
- Outreach and building members phase
- Website, magazine and social media coming soon
- Want to hold monthly webinars
- OCCULTATION OF ZC2118 on 22 FEB 22 observation report – David Lee
- High winds and very cold, so used light weight rigs – camera and lens, and small refractor for visual
- Video of Alpha 1 & 2 Librae stars ingress and egress
- Observing reports from Sid Sidhu, Nathan Hellner-Mestelman, Chris Purse and Randy Enkin
- IOTA lists occultations and grazes
- Lauri Roche
- Artemis Mission Launch coming up – Canadian Space Agency is looking for promotion to the public by RASC. April 16th FDAO event is proposed with a speaker from CSA.
- GA is online again this year – June 24-27
- Virtual observing across the country on two evenings – solar observing from Victoria?
- Edmonton Astrophotos – Dave Robinson
- Bi-marathons – Messier & running marathon in the same night
- Andromeda Galaxy & Ha regions & Cepheid Variable VI – Abdur Anwar
- Lunar Occultation – 2 photos 48 seconds apart – Mike Webb
- Chris Gainor
- James Webb Space Telescope Report
- Pointing and focusing 18 mirrors progressing nicely
- Now resolving a single star with completed image stacking
- More work on focusing required
- Artemis Mission – probably a May launch – Chris Gainor
- Artemis 2 mission will take humans around the Moon
- The Ukraine war will probably affect space launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Russia. Other space exploration may be affected. Discussion about International Space Station.
- James Webb Space Telescope Report
- Bill Weir
- Equatorial Poncet platform for the 20″ Truss Dobsonian built by Guy Walton is now working again
- Will be used at the Centre of the Universe for public viewing when restrictions permit events
- SIGs – David Lee
- Beginners SIG – tomorrow evening
- EAA SIG – Thursday – discuss a National RASC public outreach initiative using EAA
Astronomy Cafe – Feb 28, 2022