Video transcript of meeting
- Local professional astronomer Frank Younger died at 80 years old – Jim Hesser
- zoom service on Friday Sept 3 at 3:00PM (zoom Passcode: Frank)
- RASC Exploring Exoplanets course – Aug 4 – Sep 1 – David Lee
- Using the RASC robotic telescope and CCD camera to measure changes in brightness
- Differential photometry generates a transit light curve from occultation
- Using AstroImageJ software for data processing
- Report results to AAVSO’s Exoplanet Watch program
- Editing NASA Raw Data – Mars Perseverance and Junocam – David Lee
- Presentation by Pete Williamson engaging UK youth in processing NASA data
- Solar photos
- Solar disk yesterday using a white light filter – Joe Carr
- Calcium-K and Ha revealed many surface features – Arnold Rivera (Edmonton)
- Openings, a time lapse of a Hibiscus blooming – by John McDonald
- Observing as Galileo did – Bill Weir
- Using Victoria Centre’s replica Galileo telescope to observe with
- Specs: 26mm aperture, 1000mm f/l = f/37
- Sketching Jupiter’s moons using the telescope
- Will also observe Saturn and Venus
- Telescope is very difficult to point and use effectively
- Photos inspired by the Explore the Moon program – Brian Barber
- Photos of the Moon taken through a Dobsonian telescope with 25mm, 7.4mm and 10mm eyepieces
- Some optical illusion showing a bear shape on the Lunar surface
- Next Monday is Labour Day, so no Astro Cafe
- Current health orders preclude us from restarting in-person meetings. We had planned to restart Astronomy Cafe for mid-September at the Fairfield site, but Victoria Centre has rented the space, so we will keep members posted when the situation improves.