Meetings

October 14, 2015, 7:30PM, University of Victoria, Bob Wright Centre A104 – RASC Victoria Centre’s monthly meeting Event info “Exploring the ghostly side of galaxies with Dragonfly” – Dr. Roberto Abraham, University of Toronto professor, Dept of Astronomy & Astrophysics Abstract: Bigger telescopes are

Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Victoria Centre Annual General Meeting and Dinner Sunday, November 22 2015 at the Moon Under Water Brewpub, 350 Bay St, Victoria, BC Call for Nominations 6:00pm – Drinks, conversation No host bar 6:30 – Dinner

September 9, 2015, 7:30PM, University of Victoria, Bob Wright Centre A104 – RASC Victoria Centre’s monthly meeting Event info “The Search for Alien Life in the Universe” – Dr. Jon Willis, UVic professor Abstract: Do aliens exist and how are scientists proposing

June 10, 2015, 7:30PM, University of Victoria, Bob Wright Centre A104 – RASC Victoria Centre’s monthly meeting – Event Info Slicing & Dicing Galaxies to Understand What Built Them Up – Dr. Joel Roediger (NRC/Herzberg) As best we can define

May 13, 2015, 7:30PM, University of Victoria, Bob Wright Centre A104 – RASC Victoria Centre’s monthly meeting “ALMA, low mass star formation, and the SOLA project” – Dr. Lewis Knee, Radio Astronomy Program Programme, Millimetre Technology Group, NRC Herzberg   Abstract: ALMA, the Atacama Large

April 8, 2015, 7:30PM, University of Victoria, Bob Wright Centre B150 – RASC Victoria Centre’s monthly meeting Frontiers in Adaptive Optics and Stellar Spectroscopy: Searching for the First Stars Ever Formed – Masen Lamb, PhD student at the University of Victoria working

March 11, 2015, 7:30PM, University of Victoria, Bob Wright Centre A104 – RASC Victoria Centre’s monthly meeting Despite the emptiness of space, mergers between galaxies are surprisingly common. Around 1% of galaxies in the nearby Universe are currently experiencing an

RASC Victoria Monthly Meeting – Jan 14, 2015, 7:30PM at University of Victoria, Bob Wright Building A104   Speakers: John McDonald & Reg Dunkley – Rare Meteor Manifestations   While photographing the Geminid meteor shower this year, John McDonald managed to

RASC Victoria Monthly Meeting – Dec 10, 2014, 7:30PM at University of Victoria, Bob Wright Building B150   ’Astronomers’ Work is of Great Value’: The Construction of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory and the Foundations of the Modern Canadian Astronomy Program,

Victoria Centre’s Annual General Meeting and dinner was held on Nov 16, 2014 at Moon Under Water Pub in Victoria, BC, Canada. After enjoying a delicious dinner, and a fascinating presentation by Dr. James Di Francesco on the latest discoveries coming