This month a new Council will take over the affairs of the Victoria Centre and move us into the second quarter of this century. Many of the people in the new Council will be the same as in recent years,
President’s Message – Feb 2025

Royal Astronomical Society of Canada – astronomy and space science
This month a new Council will take over the affairs of the Victoria Centre and move us into the second quarter of this century. Many of the people in the new Council will be the same as in recent years,
Between my two spells as President of the Victoria Centre, I spent more than 15 years occupied in the affairs of the RASC at the national level, including five years as our centre’s national rep, 10 years on the national
Something we take for granted as members of the RASC Victoria Centre is the online infrastructure of the society and our centre. Our Victoria Centre website victoria.rasc.ca serves us well thanks to the work of dedicated volunteers. The father of
One of the greatest benefits of membership in the Victoria Centre is that we get to meet and know some of the giants of Canadian astronomy. This centrewas founded under the tutelage of the father of Canadian astrophysics, John S.
The COVID-19 Pandemic affected the Victoria Centre and its members in many ways, most of them negative. In a positive vein, our weekly Astronomy Cafés were transformed from small in-person gatherings to larger get-togethers on Zoom, and today they are
Our 27th annual Island Star Party on the weekend of August 9 to 11 at St. Stephen’s Anglican Church in Saanichton has gone into the books as a success. Like everyone else, I got in some good observing and looked
Spring this year will always be remembered for the total solar eclipse of April 8 and the great auroral display of May 10-11. Even though those memorable events have been followed by June observing conditions best characterized as mixed, there
The month of May opened with all of us still talking about the total solar eclipse on April 8, an event that we all assumed would go down as the singular celestial highlight of this year. As the one-month anniversary
What else can I write about or even talk about other than that celestial event that took place on April 8? I had seen the 1979 eclipse in Manitoba and the 2017 eclipse in Oregon. After 2017, all us eclipse
Usually Victoria Centre Presidents serve two years and then move on to something else. Right now, things are a little different. Randy Enkin has just wrapped up three years as President and shifted to other jobs in the centre, including