- Intro & Welcome by Randy Enkin
- Partial Solar Eclipse on Mar 29th – Randy Enkin
- East coast of Canada
- Czech Republic, Germany, France, UK, series over Stonehenge
- Iceland, Greenland
- Quebec – video of horns of eclipsed Sun rising
- Events on April 1st – David Lee
- Beginners SIG – Kirsten presenting on Saturnian Moons
- Crescent Moon and Pleiades nearby, along with Mars, Gemini and Jupiter
- Astronomy Day – May 3rd – David Lee, Kirsten Pedersen
- Royal BC Museum – daytime
- 4 speakers
- Amy Archer – Sir James Douglas, Astronomer
- Nathan – related to his new book: Language of the Stars
- Chris Gainor – Hubble Space Telescope and Canada
- Speaker TBA – Astrophotography
- Stellarium planetarium, Welcome table, Quality lighting, other astronomy groups will participate
- 4 speakers
- Centre of the Universe – evening
- Falk Herwig – subject TBA
- Astronomy Day Across Canada
- Royal BC Museum – daytime
- UVic Presentation – April 9th – Kirsten Pedersen
- Galaxy Structures – Dr. Toby Brown, Herzberg/NRC
- Cosmology, Dark Matter
- Lecture Theatre B104, Bob Wright
- In-person only
- Coffee, cookies and conversation after the meeting
- Access Victoria Centre’s Library
- RASC General Assembly – Apr 26-27 – Lauri Roche
- $30 for 2 days – sign-up online
- Online sessions – 2 streams (basic, advanced)
- Citizen science and Canada’s astro-tourism are the themes
- Parker Solar Probe mission – Natasha van Bentum
- Public outreach is excellent
- Mission completed the 23rd close approach to the Sun
- APOD today profiles the Parker Solar Probe
- Garry Sedun
- Horsehead Nebula – old data, new processing using Pixinsight
- Could a star-bathing retreat help calm your frazzled mind? – BBC
- Garry’s new observatory is about to be built in North Saanich
- Movie Night at the CU – Wilfred Buck documentary – Apr 5th – Lauri Roche
- Skynews – April 2025 – Randy Enkin
- Galaxy adventures – Dan Posey, President
- Review of astronomy and space events – April calendar
- Space News – Chris Gainor
- Apollo 6 – nobody remembers it because Martin Luther King was assasinated on that day a few hours after launch
- Artemis Mission – looking good
- Asteroid 2024 YR 4 – will miss Earth in 2032, but it might strike the Moon
- JWST has found aurora on Neptune
- Neptunian & Uranian Moons – Kirsten Pedersen
- Recent evidence indicates that Uranus and Neptune have oceans under their atmospheres
- A clue to what lies beneath the bland surfaces of Uranus and Neptune – Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley
- First Man movie – Neil Armstrong landing on the Moon – Garry Sedun
- Manual landing on the Moon
- Offers good insight into the lunar missions
- Upcoming clear skies – looks promising starting in a couple of days – Astronomical weather resources
Video transcript of meeting
Astronomy Cafe – Mar 31, 2025
