
- Intro by Reg Dunkley
- New member – Ben Spiller
- Private Passions on BBC Radio – Natasha Van Bentum
- Dava Sobel – her choices of music – podcast
- Program runs every Sunday
- Reporting for Lauri Roche by Marjie Welchframe
- FDAO Trivia Games this Saturday – from Lauri Roche
- We need 3 Victoria Centre volunteers for a team
- Feb 24 Annual RASC Victoria Dinner – from Lauri Roche
- Sign up with Marjie Welchframe (Marjie.welchframe@icloud.com)
- NOVA – Part 1 – from Lauri Roche
- Starts Feb 13 to Mar 13, Thusdays 7-9pm
- Sign up by contacting Lauri Roche (lauri@victoria.rasc.ca)
- FDAO Trivia Games this Saturday – from Lauri Roche
- Observing – David Lee
- Members observe from Cattle Point, Metchosin and VCO
- VCO Report
- Still configuring new host computer, but going well
- Photographed the Moon – experimenting with creating a stereo view in cooperation with Roger in the UK
- Takahashi TOA 130 and Nikon square format camera – shooting video and Lucky Imaging processing of a lunar image.
- Space Missions – Chris Gainor
- Council meeting tomorrow online at 7:30PM – info emailed to members
- Firefly Blue Ghost launch happened on Jan 15th – mission to the Moon
- New Glenn rocket launch on Jan 16th – Blue Origin successful test
- Starship 7 – SpaceX
- First stage “catch” worked
- Second stage exploded
- This will set back the Artemis mission – sending astronauts to the Moon
- Inauguration Day Space News from today
- “Manifest destiny” support for landing humans on Mars
- Artemis II Moon mission – orbit humans around the Moon
- Artemis III Moon mission – land humans on the Moon
- Elon Musk’s influence on President Trump regarding space missions
- Jerrod Isaacman is the new head of NASA
- Outer Space Treaty signed in 1967 – basic law for space
- Other space treaties discussed
- Astrophotography by members
- Orion Nebula – Ron Fisher
- Jupiter with Ganymede & Io, Mars, Venus – Darren Delorme
- Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn – Brock Johnston
- Parade of Planets from Cattle Point – Megan Meraz
Video transcript of meeting
Astronomy Cafe – Jan 20, 2025