Video transcript of meeting
- General Assembly – Lauri Roche
- Invitations sent out by email to all RASC members
- $15 for two days of online activities
- Speaker on Saturday night
- Gather Town – meet and greet
- Sunday Night Astronomy Show – from New Brunswick
- Voyager 1 & 2 – Garry Sedun, Chris Gainor
- Voyager 1 now communicating again, once a fix was installed
- Launched in 1977
- Now in heliopause – outside influence of the Sun
- Regional Science Fair – Lauri Roche (roche.lauri@gmail.com)
- Astrophotography – Dave Payne
- Triangulum Galaxy – by John McDonald
- NGC 2403 – about the same size bur further away
- Markarian’s Chain of galaxies in Virgo
- 18 hours of exposure
- Tried 50 hours of exposure to find more Ha data
- David Lee (david@victoria.rasc.ca)
- Beginners’ SIG – moved to 14th
- Recurrent T Coronae Borealis
- 80 year period, should increase in brightness from Mag 10 to 2 by September
- Photometry is being planned – contact David
- NASA Blog T Coronae Borealis
- Recurrent Nova T CrB AAVSO Webinar
- John McDonald
- Some good books by Carlo Rovelli, cosmological physicist
- Seven Lessons on physics
- White Holes – time reversed version to Black Holes
- Books available in local bookshops,online and audio versions
- 2024 Total Solar Eclipse – Composite photo of a series from partial to Totality
- Some good books by Carlo Rovelli, cosmological physicist
- Uplands street lighting – update from Dave Robinson
- Met with involved parties in Oak Bay
- Will meet further with mayor and engineer to try to head off the poor choices to try to get responsible night lighting when heritage street lights are replaced
- Garry Sedun
- Lava Lake on Io, moon of Jupiter
- Recent Solar Eclipse caused time shifts for satellites
- Chris Gainor
- Alan Dyer’s Chasing the Cross-continental Eclipse
- Texas to Ontario to Quebec to successfully photograph the eclipse
- Being President – odd emails
- Where is George Ball’s observatory?
- RASA 14″ telescope – owners want to install it at our site on Observatory Hill
- Alan Dyer’s Chasing the Cross-continental Eclipse
- Inflatable planetarium available – contact Lauri Roche (roche.lauri@gmail.com)
- International Astronomy Day in Victoria – Lauri Roche
- Posters and other graphics to share event with others
- Contact Lauri or Randy (pastpres@victoria.rasc.ca) to volunteer
- Astrophotography SIG – this Wednesday – Dave Payne