Video transcript of meeting
- Special General Meeting for RASC Victoria Centre – Randy Enkin
- Have a quorum of over 25 Victoria Centre members in attendance
- Changes to ensure our bylaws are consistent with the national bylaws and BC Society’s Act requirements
- Call for volunteers to work on more revisions to Victoria Centre bylaws over the next few months
- Need volunteers for Astronomy Cafe – contact Randy Enkin
- Zoom host – recording and posting the video transcripts online
- Meeting host – tracks and runs the meetings
- Star parties at Observatory Hill – Lauri Roche
- May 21, Jun 4, 18 – hybrid party in-person and online on Zoom & Youtube
- May 21 – Early Discoveries made by the Plaskett Telescope – Jim Nemec
- Every Saturday night after the July 1st break for the summer
- Volunteers needed: telescopes in the parking lot, RASC welcome table, Plaskett dome tour hosts, 16″ telescope operators, other roles – contact Lauri
- Electronically-Assisted Astronomy – start planning to use at the Star Parties in future – contact Dave Lee
- May 21, Jun 4, 18 – hybrid party in-person and online on Zoom & Youtube
- Nanaimo Astronomy – Janeane MacGillivray
- Astronomy From Kitt Peak – David Lee presenting at upcoming meeting
- RASC Victoria members are welcome – send an email
- Total Lunar Eclipse reports from members – May 15/16, 2022
- Cloudy photos from Saanich after being skunked at Cattle Point – David Lee
- HDR smartphone photos through eyepiece, join observations from Cosmic Generation group – Nathan Hellmen-Mestleman
- Lunar Crater transits & mare cookies – Randy Enkin
- Cloudy photos from Sidney – Chris Gainor
- Observed from Brentwood Bay while raining – Lauri Roche
- Just a glimpse from Taylor Beach in Metchosin, but spotted ISS – Bill Weir
- Plaskett Images – Dan Posey
- Composite image of the images over last few years
- Whirlpool Galaxy, Whale Galaxy, Deer Link Group NGC 7331, Fireworks Galaxy NGC 6946, M100, M63 Blackeye, NGC 3718 Arp galaxy, Hickson 44
- Plaskett nights are for enjoyment and a reward for RASC Victoria members and volunteers
- Review of techniques to process Plaskett image data into nice images
- Skynews magazine – Bruce Lane
- Review of upcoming articles
- Please send Total Lunar Eclipse observing reports to Bruce (Editor)
- Black Holes – Randy Enkin
- M87 Black Hole – April 22, 2019 – Event Horizon Telescope
- Sagittarius A* Supermassive Black Hole – May 16, 2022 – BBC Science Focus article
- Galactic nucleus observed by Karl Jansky in 1931 – published in Nature, 173, 985-987, 1954
- Angular resolution problem solved by the Event Horizon Telescope
- Motion analysis of objects and energy near the Event Horizon of a black hole
- Lauri Roche’s “black hole” birthday gift
Astronomy Cafe – May 16, 2022