Meeting transcript video
- The Dual Dipole Radio Telescope – Evan Warburton, Oak Bay High School, Grade 12
- Io generates a band of electrons around Jupiter
- Setup dipole antenna on the Lansdowne Middle School field
- 20MHz ionized radiation – copper wire cut to half the wavelength
- “Floating” coaxial shield, not grounded
- SDR Console software – gain, bandwidth, Io A, B and C phase predictions – Software Defined Radio
- Spectrograph software
- Detected a radio storm – short, random bursts
- 10-40 MHz is the observable bandwidth range
- Observing time: about 1 hour per week
- NASA’s Radio JOVE Project: Home Page– helpful forum
- Project planning and execution – discussion
- Q & A
- Evan is travelling to the Canada-wide Science Fair in Edmonton May 13, and is attending UVic Physics this Fall with a prestigious Schulich scholarship to his credit.
- International Astronomy Day – April 29 & 30, 2023 – report by Lauri Roche and David Lee
- Saturday at Observatory Hill – FDAO event
- Event recording
- Astronomy Day | Star Party — Centre of the Universe
- Sunday at UVic Astronomy – RASC & UVic event
- School astronomy groups – Monterey, Shawnigan Lake, Victoria High
- About 100 public attended
- Needed more media coverage and promotion
- Need a discussion about next year’s effort
- Zenfolio | RASC Victoria Centre | Astronomy Day 2023
- Discussion of both events
- Saturday at Observatory Hill – FDAO event
- RASC Victoria Centre Council meeting on May 9th – Randy Enkin
- Members are welcome to attend online
- Beaveree at Camp Barnard – May 27th (9am-2pm) – Bill Weir
- Need volunteers for outreach – email Bill
- Solar and possibly daytime planets
- Telescopes – both Ha and white light
- RASC GA 2023 – CONNECT with the cosmos & community – May 5-7 – Lauri Roche
- Gather Town – social interaction
- Friday – Dr. Shandin Pete, Salish Sky Lore, 1 hour live from Victoria’s DAO (7-8pm) – contact Lauri to volunteer
- Saturday – combatting science misinformation, CSA Astronaut Jeremy Hansen
- Sunday – Dr. Linda Shore, Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- Members: $35 admission
- Zoom call is used for all sessions
- Astronomy by Night – A new Canadian website for amateur astronomers. – Michael Webb
- Explore the Universe – Marjie Welchframe
- Lunar crater sketches
- Astronomy Cafe – next week’s speaker is Justin Albert – cube-sat ORCASat
- Beginner’s SIG – tomorrow night – Jill & David
Astronomy Cafe – May 1, 2023