Transcript video of meeting Dr. Michelle Kunimoto is a postdoctoral associate working on NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)mission. She leads the Quick Look Pipeline team at MIT which is dedicated to analyzing TESS data to discover and characterize exoplanets. As an undergraduate,
Astronomy Cafe – Oct 4, 2021
Video transcript of meeting Milky Way from Cattle Point – a photo showing no stars, just galaxies – Nathan Hellner-Mestelman Women in Astronomy – Marjie Welchframe Isabel Williamson has an asteroid named after her Dava Sobel also has an asteroid
Astronomy Cafe – Sept 27, 2021
Video transcript of meeting Women Astronomers – Marjie Welchframe Dr. Michelle Kunimoto, age 27, lives in Vancouver Works (post doc) for MIT’s NASA Mission Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Jan 2020 Lunar Eclipse photos – Nathan Hellner-Mestelman The Shadow of the Earth
Astronomy Cafe – Sep 20, 2021
Video transcript of meeting Remembering Ed Maxfield – David Lee Earth – Potentially Habitable Planet – Nathan Hellner-Mestelman Earth is pretty small…some comparisons with larger celestial objects Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, Alpha Centauri, the Sun, Sirius, Vega, Bellatrix, Pollux, Sagittarius A, Beta
Astronomy Cafe – Sep 13, 2021
Video transcript of meeting Astro Cafe is not going to in-person meetings until the health regulations relax – contact Chris Purse or Randy Enkin if you have thoughts on how to move forward History of Women in Astronomy – Marjie
Astronomy Cafe – August 23, 2021
Transcript video of the meeting Mark Wheen at Pearson College wants to train some people to operate the 25″ telescope – members should contact Bill Weir if interested Astrophotos from Victoria Centre members Intro from John McDonald Brock Johnston –
Astronomy Cafe – Aug 16, 2021
Video transcript of meeting Location, Location, Location (Plaskett history) – Dennis Crabtree, NRC Herzberg John Stanley Plaskett – took lots of photos Site testing for proposed 72″ telescope used a Cooke 4.5″ equatorially-mounted telescope, mainly operated by W.E. Harper Plaskett’s 1913
Astronomy Cafe – August 9, 2021
Transcript video of meeting Randy Enkin Mars Retrograde – July 7, 2020 to Jan 27, 2021 at 7-day intervals from the Phillipines Meteor shower in real time from Mauna Kea, Hawaii ISS Synchronized Swimming Program and other space Olympics Announcements
Astronomy Cafe – July 26, 2021
Video transcript of meeting The Heart of the Crab Nebula – Reg Dunkley M1 sketched by Philip Teece Images by Reg, John McDonald, Garry Sedun, and other members Image and 3D model from CFHT – SITELLE spectrograph Various analysis of the
Astronomy Cafe – July 19, 2021
Video transcript of meeting ISS Transits of the Moon – Randy Enkin Enkins Daily Moon on Facebook Lunar Eclipse and Solar Eclipse with ISS transiting – Thierry Legault ISS Transit Finder Photo of the ISS and Mars – by Tom