Transcript video of the meeting
- Sky Brightness Survey – David Lee
- Most data sheets have been received from the volunteers
- Readings taken in the region last Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
- Marjie & Susan – a great experience
- Possibly another round of data collection will be needed next month to catch missing readings
- Lauri & Brenda – very interesting to measure the areas, app delivered higher (better) readings than the SQM, Island View Beach is very dark but some urban glow
- John McDonald – different smart phones would probably deliver different readings from the app due to different camera configurations
- Dave Payne – Possibly calibrate the app to the SQMs
- Les Welch – the nature of the lighting determines the light pollution level
- Bill Weir – SQM at Mt. Kobau was 21.8, yet it was very poor seeing due to smoke and other sky obscuration
- Astrophotos – Brock Johnson
- Elephant Trunk Nebula – mid-August, Celestron 925, dual-band filter
- Dumbell Nebula – fainter details visible, dual-band filter
- Dark Shark Nebula – dark nebula, dust lanes in Cepheus, some stars reflecting off the dust
- Deer Lick Group of galaxies and Stephan’s Quintet in one widefield frame
- Andromeda Galaxy, M31, M32, M110 – other tiny galaxy PGC2314
- Jupiter & Saturn – taken using a OSC planetary camera
- Visual Observing – Bill Weir
- Jupiter & Saturn – great detail visible last night just before midnight
- Astrophotography SIG – Dave Payne
- Meeting this Wednesday
- SIG members will be showing their work regularly at Astronomy Cafe
- Samantha Jewett, Education and Outreach Coordinator, RASC National
- Planning stage for 2022-23 in-reach and outreach
- In-reach
- Visits to Centres by Samantha and Phil
- Attend major star parties
- Robotic Telescope Project
- 2022 data release on Oct 1st
- New projects and volunteers
- Citizen science research group
- Outreach
- Tour the Night Sky – Zoom nights for members
- NOVA – material to centres by end of October – David Lee & Lauri Roche are already hosts
- High school groups
- robotic telescope operating and data available
- astrophotography as well as data acquisition
- Insider’s Guide to the Galaxy hosted by Chris Vaughan
- Zoom & Youtube
- Creating Resources
- Beginners
- Short-form on social media
- Families & under 12 activities
- Shared with centres
- Public Events
- Solar sidewalk outside National office
- Trade shows
- Star parties
- Solar Eclipses in 2023 and 2024
- Eclipse glasses
- Education materials for centres
- Education & Public Outreach
- World Asterisms Project by Charles Ennis
- Astronomy software training by Blake Nancarrow
- GA 2023
- Early May online
- Separate from the AGM
- 2023 RASC Calendars available for order on Oct 1st – contact Lauri
- Send local event information to national to publicize
- Observers Handbook
- Coming directly from publisher this year
- Members should review your address – go to rasc.ca and click on “Log in”
- Young astronomers – Lauri Roche
- School Astronomy Clubs at Oak Bay (forming), Mt. Doug (forming), Vic High (in place
- NASA’s DART small spacecraft crashed into small asteroid Dimorphos today – Bill Weir
- Planetary defence test
- Cubesat imaged the event – available in a couple of weeks
- Mission information from NASA
- Official NASA Broadcast
- Fall Fairfield Fair – Reg Dunkley
- 400 people came by our table
- Observing the Sun through the Solar scope was popular
- Thanks to the volunteers
- Donating telescopes – Bill Weir & Samantha Jewett
- Pearson College is receiving a vintage Questar telescope donation from an estate
- Telescopes can also be donated to National’s Dorner Telescope Museum
- Nanaimo’s Day of Reconciliation – Janeane
- Nanaimo Astronomy will be there this Friday