Astronomy Cafe – Oct 16, 2023

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• Resumption of monthly meetings and speakers at UVic –  Jeff Pivnick
  • First presentation on Oct 11th – NEW EARTH Lab – Find Life on Exoplanets | RASC Victoria – Dr. Christian Marois, NRC, UVic
• Unexpected Results from James Webb Space Telescope – Chris Gainor
  • Panic! at the Disks: First Rest-frame Optical Observations of Galaxy Structure at z > 3 with JWST in the SMACS 0723 Field
• Annular Solar Eclipse from Victoria on Oct 14, 2023 – Randy Enkin, Lauri Roche, David Lee
  • Lots of families at FDAO event on Observatory Hill
  • Randy gave 10-minute eclipse basics talks
  • Pre-eclipse report and time lapse video by David Lee
  • FDAO eclipse event report by Lauri Roche
    • Streamed images from David Lee’s telescope in lower parking lot
    • Streamed images from Time & Date website
    • Homemade waffles, fruit and parfaits were popular
    • Lots of RASC members
    • About 150-200 public attended
  • Eclipse Images by members
    • Impromptu event from Cattle Point – Nathan Hellner-Mestelman
    • Sid Sidhu’s Highlands neigbourhood event – David Lee
    • Gordon Head sketches – Dorothy Paul
    • Observatory Hill photo series – Brock Johnston
    • John McDonald’s photos – David Lee
    • Cattle Point – Alex Schmid
    • Partial Solar Eclipse 2023 – RASC Victoria online gallery
  • Eclipse photos from online sources – Randy Enkin
  • Eclipse reports from members
• Total Solar Eclipse – April 8, 2024 – Discussion about this upcoming event
• SIGNALS – Star-formation, Ionized Gas and Nebular Abundances Legacy Survey – CFHT – Laurie Rousseau-Nepton, Principal Investigator
  • Étoile du Nord  – NFB series – French with English translation
• FDAO Star Party AGM, 2024 RASC calendars or workbooks – contact Lauri Roche (roche.lauri@gmail.com)
• Beginners’s SIG – Algol Minima – David Lee