Transcript video of meeting
- New RASC national membership site is now live – reset your password! – Chris Purse
- Explore The Universe certificate – presented by Randy Enkin to Chris Purse
- Chris reviews all the national observing programs, and how he completed the ETU
- Double Stars program is now live, and can be done even from light-polluted locations – Blair Stunder
- There is no time limit on completing any of the certificates
- Goto mounts and setting circles can be used in addition to finding objects using traditional star-hopping
- International Astronomy Day – May 15th 7PM-11PM – online event by FDAO
- Registration required – free
- Plaskett history
- Fossils in Our Galaxy – presentation by Kim Venn
- Astrophotography display with VOX Humana audio
- Ask An Astronomer
- Planetarium show
- Tour of the UVic telescope
- EAA group to show
- Live streaming from the Plaskett – weather dependant
- Coronado 90mm solar telescope acquired by the FDAO to use for public outreach
- Edmonton RASC photos – Dave Robinson
- Solar prominences in Ha – Abdur Anwar
- Moonset on April 24th over Edmonton – Alister Ling
- Solar Ha 80mm Lunt – Arnold Rivera
- Moonset at Sunrise over Edmonton – time lapse movie by Alister Ling
- Possible Undiscovered Planets in our Solar System – Astronomy XKCD comic – Randy Enkin
- Based on recent Planet 9 WISE research
- Logarithmic distance scale
- Amended comic with more facts and embellishments
- SIGs – David Lee
- Getting Started in Astronomy – Tue evening
- EAA & UVic students – Wed evening rehearsal for upcoming Astronomy Day
- EAA – Thu evening
- Makers – info sent by Jim Cliffe to email list
- End of a series of low tides – tied to the Moon – Dave Robinson
- High Spring tides are following later this month
- Total Lunar Eclipse coincides with this month’s Full Moon
- Variable Star observing – David Lee
- Target yet to be picked, but probably a rapid period variable first
- Can use imagers or visual observing
- Basic methodology: measuring a comparison star against the target variable star brightness
Astronomy Cafe – May 3, 2021