Meeting transcript video
- Announcements – Chris Purse
- No Astro Cafe next week – Easter weekend
- The Moon At Noon observing program – hosted by RASC National
- Nathan
- Combined 6 photos taken at each phase of the Moon
- “Lines connecting the stars” – really dark skies of the ancients!
- Water rockets – project for science fair
- 100 metres maximum height reached
- project involves balancing the amount of water and air for maximum height
- 500ml was optimal for his configuration – 1:14 ratio
- leaking bottles, lost red fins, air pump broke, lost the altimeter
- Used a launcher with a remote switch and an air pump
- The dates of Passover and Easter – Randy Enkin
- Jewish calendar is lunar
- Passover – 15th day of Nissan, starting on the first new moon of spring
- Easter – 1st Sunday after Full Moon on or after March 21st (vernal equinox)
- Saanich First Nation’s calendar
- Amateur Astronomy Courses – Marjie Welchframe
- Marjie completed all five courses – now available on youtube (see linked article)
- My Introduction to Astronomy – paid course starting on April 6th by Richard Bell
- Kalamazoo Astronomical Society
- Edmonton astrophotos – Dave Robinson
- Propellor Nebula – Arnold Rivera
- Leo Trio – Abdur Anwar
- Coronal Aurora – Lucas and Abdur
- Solar Halo – Alister Ling
- International Astronomy Day – Lauri Roche
- Sat, May 15th – webinar from Victoria being planned, featuring:
- Live solar viewing
- Astrophotos
- Planetarium show
- Live from CU deck
- Sat, May 15th – webinar from Victoria being planned, featuring:
- Finding Novas – Brock Johnston
- Captured the current supernova in Cassiopeia
- Used ASIair Pro to find
- Used Deep Sky Stacker & Gimp for processing
- Sky & Telescope article
- Lunar Occultation – David Lee
- Nu Virginis – April 23 11:05:17PM
- What is an occultation?
- Contact David for more info or to participate in this observation
- Black Holes get more interesting – John McDonald
- Scientific American special publication: Black Holes – the extreme science of the universe’s most mysterious phenomena – available at Bolen Books or online
- Gravity waves from collisions
- Black holes may be primordial, so not all black holes may be caused by supernova
- Moon phase photo series – John McDonald
- Sketch of Bailly crater on the 26th – Randy
- Lunar video sequence from last August – Brock
Astronomy Cafe – March 29, 2021