Video transcript of meeting
- Lunar sketching & movie review – Randy Enkin
- Randy’s Lunar “scissors” sketch, compared with Mike Nash and Bill Weir photos of the same area
- “Don’t Look Up” popular movie on Netflix
- Amy Mainzer was the science advisor for the movie, and is also the Principal Investigator for NEOWISE. So the science was quite accurately portrayed in the movie.
- Observation of Mars and Jupiter in 1802 – Piazzi discovered Ceres instead of a new planet, and Carl Friedrich Gauss computed the orbit of the asteroid
- Measuring the Earth – Gauss and von Humbolt
- JPL Horizons System (Solar System Dynamics) – solar system ephemeris computation system
- Mark Boslough movie review – don’t read before watching the movie!
- Brian Cox’s commentary about Don’t Look Up
- Astrophotos from Edmonton Centre – Dave Robinson
- Antimatter and Dark Matter cartoon
- Michael Jäger (@Komet123Jager) photo of comet C/2021 A1 Leonard from Skygems Observatories in Nambia
- Article explains why comet heads are green, but their tails are not green
- Ursa Major and snow carving of a bear – Warren Findlay
- UVic construction & Sunspots – Alex Schmid
- UVic Construction photos – An update on two new buildings – residence, lecture halls, dining areas
- Recent Sunspots – a-focal through eyepiece using a 5″ Newtonian telescope with solar filter
- James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) – Chris Gainor
- Launched on Ariane 5 – Dec 25, 2021
- Journey from Earth to L2 Lagrange Point – deploying the telescope components
- Final position at L2 – arrives Jan 23, 2022 (approximately)
- First images should be released June, 2022
- Discussion about single points of failure for the mission
- JWST Control Subsystems
- RASC National 2022 calendars – Lauri Roche
- Our orders are on their way, but have still not arrived in Victoria
- Victoria Centre Observatory Upgrade – Reg Dunkley
- QHY 600 mono camera is now attached to the OGS 12.5″ telescope
- New USB3 connection in place
- Telescopes rebalanced for the new gear
- Lots of snow still on the ground around our observatory
- Our Astro Cafe speaker on Jan 24th will be Dr. Tanya Harrison, “a professional Martian”
- FDAO Star Party – Jan 22nd – Lauri Roche
- World Asterisms Project – Charles Ennis, 1st VP for RASC National
- AGM – election – Chris Purse
- Council openings are available – contact Reg Dunkley (Past President) if any member wishes to stand for Vice President, Secretary (or any other position) on Victoria Centre’s Council