Video transcript of the whole 1-hour meeting. More Lunar Photos from Mike Nash Two more beautiful lunar images from Mike. Check them out and zoom in! https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-rsJ3pkb/0/c0e69a9c/O/i-rsJ3pkb.jpg https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-QmJGhnz/0/2d67596c/O/i-QmJGhnz.jpg Balcony Astronomy from Edmonton – Abdur Anwar June 21st Annular Eclipse of
Astronomy Cafe – June 15, 2020
Sketching by Victoria Centre Members Online collection of astro sketches created by our members Phillip Teece’s Messier Sketches – observations from 1973 to 1978 from Victoria Diane Bell Dorothy Paul Kuiper belt talk at the Wednesday Night UVic Astronomy Open
Astronomy Cafe – June 8, 2020
A new sunspot! There is a new sunspot on the Sun after three months of being spotless! Both Bill Weir and Joe Carr captured this apparition. More info on SpaceWeather.com for June 6, 2020. Golden Week of Webinars in Astrophysics
2020 AGM Service Awards
Awards to members for service in 2019 Newton/Ball Award: Michel Michaud Michel has made a major contribution to the Victoria Centre serving as Librarian and Observing Chair where he coordinated MIC’s for the VCO and scheduled Messier Marathons. He is
Notice of Election at 2020 AGM
Barbara Lane, Secretary, RASC Victoria Centre There will be an election for the Victoria Centre council at the Annual General Meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Victoria Centre, being held on February 22, 2020 at 7:30PM. Location: The
RASC Victoria AGM 2020
You may have heard that the venue we had booked for our AGM, the Cedar Hill Golf Club was flooded and will be closed for the next 6 months. We are very fortunate to have found an alternative and excellent
2019 Transit of Mercury
This transit of Mercury will be well underway when the Sun rises at 7:00AM on November 11th. Observers in our location on the west coast of Canada will need to get up early and setup in the dark or pre-dawn,
RASCals Star Party 2019
September 27-29, 2019 St. Stephen’s Anglican Church7921 St Stephens Road – off Mt. Newton Cross RoadSaanichton, BC, Canada 2019 RASCals Star Party poster (774kb PDF) Gates will open at 3pm on Friday. Camp on the field and setup your telescope for two
Memories of Apollo 11 Lunar Landing from members
RASC Victoria Centre members who were old enough to have watched original television broadcasts and read the newspapers of the day, featuring the momentous landing of the Apollo 11 mission on the lunar surface on July 20, 1969 have some
New Horizons Mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt – a public talk
May 14, 2019 – 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Victoria Conference Centre Lecture Theatre, Level 1 Click here to register ABOUT THE TALK In July of 2015 the New Horizons spacecraft flew through the Pluto system, completing humanity’s reconnaissance of