Time/Location: Saturday, May 3, 10am-4pm at the Royal BC Museum, and 8pm-11pm at Observatory Hill Event Poster (4.9Mb PDF) It was wonderful to see so many enjoy themselves! In spite of the cloudy weather during the day and evening, the Victoria Centre’s
Island Star Party – update on site improvements
Thinking forward to the August 22/23/24 Island Star Party. I dropped in to Bright Angel Park the other afternoon and ran in to a CVRD park fellow there. (Graham). We spoke for a few minutes about the work that is
Through Infra-red Goggles Darkly – an engineer’s view of climate change!
Victoria Centre’s monthly meeting, held on Wednesday March 12, 2014 in room A104 of the Bob Wright Centre, UVic, at 19:30. A Short Bio of Dr. Parvez Kumar, P.Eng., FCASI (this latter is Fellow of the Canadian Aeronautics & Space
Volunteers needed for 2014 General Assembly!
The 2014 General Assembly is coming up quickly in late June, and our organising committee needs your help! Ideally, they would like to see every member of Victoria Centre contribute to the success of this event. Not only are we
Mathematics and understanding our universe – Nazim Açar
Monthly meeting speaker Feb 12, 2014 7:30PM, A104 – Bob Wright Building, University of Victoria Event info Presentation – 6.3Mb pdf Bio: Nazim was born in a perfect astronomy center: a remote Anatolian village with no electricity. For the summers
President’s Message – February 2014
The hard-working organizers of the upcoming GA 2014 are concerned about our member response, or lack thereof, to their cries for volunteers. They assure me that it will take almost all of the active members of the Centre to put
First evening of observing by the RASCals of Cattle Point
After several months of being skunked by bad weather, the RASCals of Cattle Point finally had a good night to offer observing to the public from RASC’s newest Urban Star Park. Our Treasurer Bruce Lane coordinates this event. Here is
Asteroid named after Betty Hesser
An asteroid was recently named after Betty Hesser, a long time and well-known RASC Victoria Centre member. (378204) Bettyhesser = 2006 YF49 Discovered 2006 Dec. 26 by D.D. Balam at Mauna Kea. Betty Hinsdale Hesser (b.1938), passionately curious about, and
Introduction to Astrophotography course
Instructor: W John McDonald Course #116990 $70 Program Guide (pdf) 3 Tuesdays, 7-9pm Apr 8-22, 2014 Photographing the night sky can be a rewarding pastime. As a result of improvements in off-the-shelf cameras, amateurs can produce images that sometimes rival those done
2014 GA Call for Papers Notice
It’s time again for the Call for Papers for the Annual General Assembly of the RASC. Since Victoria Centre is the host for the GA in June of this year, our organizing committee would like to see our local membership