Video transcript of meeting
- Remembering Ed Maxfield – David Lee
- Earth – Potentially Habitable Planet – Nathan Hellner-Mestelman
- Earth is pretty small…some comparisons with larger celestial objects
- Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, Alpha Centauri, the Sun, Sirius, Vega, Bellatrix, Pollux, Sagittarius A, Beta Centauri, Arcturus, Aldebaran, Rigel, Deneb, Rho Cassiopeia, Betelgeuse.
- Red Hyper-giants: Uy Scuti, Stephenson 2-18
- Supermassive Black Holes: Cygnus A, Messier 84, Hercules A
- Primary ultra-massive Black Holes: Messier 87, OJ 287
- Ton 618 – Hyper-luminous Quasar (13.1 billion Light Years away)
- M33 – The Triangulum Galaxy – Reg Dunkley
- Unusual rotation indicated Dark Matter (first proposed by Vera Rubin)
- Part of the Local Group of galaxies
- Since it’s so faint visually, Reg uses photos to observe this galaxy – a stack of over 6 hours of subframes
- M33 in Hydrogen Alpha photo by Dan Meek, Calgary Centre
- NGC 604 and 595 – knots of stellar activity – nebulae and star clusters
- Dave Payne’s photos showing NGC 604 and 595
- Dorothy has sketched M33 from a dark observing site
- Photos by John McDonald
- Deer Lick Group and Stefan’s Quintet – test photo from the two telescopes at the VCO
- Comparing the distances of the objects – millions of Light Years away
- Eta Carina nebula photo – newly processed using PixInsight – with and without stars, and original
- UGC12127 – nearby cluster of galaxies suggested by Dorothy & Miles Paul
- Starnet++ – a standalone app to remove stars suggested by Dave Payne
- Edmonton Centre photos – Dave Robinson
- NGC 1499 – California Nebula (2 orientations) by Tom Owen
- Jupiter sequence of photos – Abdur Anwar and Arnold Rivera
- Saturn – Abdur Anwar and Arnold Rivera
- Andromeda Galaxy taken with a simple, non-tracking setup using camera and lens – Alister Ling
- Hubble deep field photo – Brock Johnston
- SIGs – meeting online
- Astrophotography – Wednesday
- Makers – Thursday
- Fall Fairfield – RASC Victoria will be at this FGCA public event in the field – Sunday at Noon – Randy Enkin to email a notice to members