Intro – Randy Enkin
Artemis Mission – Jeff Pivnick
Last week’s Lunar Eclipse – reports from members
Astrophoto of the Clamshell Nebula – Dave Payne
Daylight Saving Time – Randy Enkin
Sid Sidhu’s Assembly of Astronomical Gear – David Lee
Events
Observing reports and photos of this Total Lunar Eclipse by our members from locations on Vancouver Island and Nova Scotia. Everyone in North and South America were able to see this apparition.
New Observers to Visual Astronomy (NOVA) – Lauri Roche; Size of Solar System using Google Earth – CJ Sandoz; Lunar Eclipse – March 13-14, 2025 – Kirsten Pedersen & David Lee; Centre of the Universe News – Lauri Roche and Kirsten Pedersen; Ellen Harding Baker’s “Solar System” Quilt – Natasha Van Bentum; Moon & Venus photos from Maui, Hawai’i – Dave Payne; *Astronomy at Cattle Point; Presentation at UVic Bob Wright A104 – March 12th, 7:30PM – Exploring the Europa Clipper Mission by Tess Grindlay .
Everybody should have a good astro-project on the go. My current one concerns the timing of lunar eclipses. Solar eclipse geography and timing is known with remarkable precision. So much so that people, including many members of our RASC community,
Part of the fun of amateur astronomy is getting caught up in “rabbit holes”. You see something on Facebook, that gets you looking up articles in the popular press, and then into academic publications, and they lead you in a
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