Video transcript of the meeting
- Astronomy Day – Jeff Pivnick
- Giveaways needed – contact Jeff
- Old Observers’ Handbook
- Past issues of magazines like Skynews
- Astronomy books no longer needed
- Giveaways needed – contact Jeff
- Victoria Centre AGM 2023 – Randy Enkin
- Decouple the social event and the business meeting
- How do members use the Observers Handbook? – Randy Enkin
- Read articles, but don’t use as a guide book
- Definitions are useful
- Source of authoritative information about astronomy
- Lists of eclipses, celestial objects
- Sky phenomena
- Tides
- Professional astronomers use it as reference
- Chris Purse and James Edgar have given tours of the Observers Handbook. James’ 6 presentations are available on RASC National’s Youtube.
- 2023 RASC Observers calendars – should arrive within a week for those who ordered – Lauri Roche
- SIGs – David Lee
- Members have shown interest in the new Citizen Science SIG – announcement pending
- Electronically-Assisted Astronomy SIG this Thursday
- Beginners SIG next week
- Astronomy Cafe venue – Randy Enkin
- Custodians want to clean our meeting room and leave by 9:00PM
- Proposing to start Astro Cafe at 7:00PM
- Possibly give up on in-person Astro Cafe?
- What about monthly meetings at UVic resuming? Parking is now $4 for the evening, and no word from UVic about restarting room rentals.
- Artemis Mission – Chris Gainor
- Photo of Artemis’ Orion, the Moon, Earth – Flickr
- Dec 1 – next burn
- James Webb mission blogs
- L2 outside the Moon gives Orion a low-energy position – Distant Retrograde Orbit
- Mass concentrations on the Moon affect the orbit of the rockets
- Nov 23 – Orion lost contact with Earth for 47 minutes – unexplained, to be investigated
- Discussion about launching processes
- Using Stellarium – Dennis F
- Impressed with the tutorials produced by National
- NRC Open House for RASC members?
- Would be great to have a tour of the new optical building
- Lauri to coordinate when the road reopens
- FDAO Star Parties – Lauri Roche
- Dec 26 – online only for last Saturday’s Star Party
- Presentation: CASTOR new space telescope (ultraviolet, wide-field) – Dr. Tyrone Woods, project lead
- Would make a good presentation for RASC Victoria members
- Dec 17 – virtual Star Party celebrating the solstice – Nathan is the speaker
- Dec 26 – online only for last Saturday’s Star Party
Astronomy Cafe – Nov 28, 2022