Transcript video of the meeting
Meeting notes
- A Woman of Astronomy – Marji Welchframe
- Urania, Muse of Astronomy
- Seal of the RASC – “Quo Ducit Urania” (i.e. where Urania leads, we follow)
- Urania is 1 of 9 Muses of the Arts in Greek Mythology
- Uranometria star atlas by Johann Bayer (1603) – published and sold by Sky & Telescope (Willman Bell section)
- Early computer memories
- LGP-30 tube-based computer used at the University of Alberta in Edmonton by John McDonald in 1958
- Reminisces from various members about early computers, calculators, slide rules, and other computing devices and programming languages they used decades ago.
- Lunar Puzzles – Randy Enkin
- 100-piece from NASA
- 1000+ piece from Cobble Hill
- 1000 piece from Four Point
- 3-D printed Moon puzzle – Randy and his daughter assembled it
- Reports from Lauri Roche
- 2022 RASC Calendars have still not arrived
- Sky Cultures of the World: RASC World Asterisms Program – Charles Ennis, 1st VP with RASC National – FDAO Star Party – this Sat, Jan 22nd 7-9PM – available on Zoom and Youtube
- Eclipses for 2023 and 2024 – Education & Public Outreach Committee task force headed by Randy Attwood. Thousands of eclipse glasses will be available and sent to RASC Centres. Members can participate on the committee – contact Lauri.
- JWST Update – Chris Gainor
- Mirror Segment Deployment Tracker – activating the actuators behind the mirror segments
- JWST enters a halo orbit around L2 position this Sunday, Jan 23rd
- Astro Cafe next week – Jan 24, 2022
- Dr. Tanya Harrison, “a professional Martian” – our Astro Cafe speaker next week
- David Lee will be hosting
- Scarlett Caterpillar Club – a parasitic fungus Bill Weir found near the observatory at Pearson College
Extras
- NASA 3D Resources – 3D models of equipment, models of celestial and solar system objects, space missions (like JWST). Various media for download: fly-throughs, interactive visualizations, 3D printer files, stereo images.
Astronomy Cafe – Jan 17, 2022
