RASC Annual General Meeting followed by Regular Meeting
TELUS World of Science – Zeidler Dome
FREE and open to the public. Note: The Annual General meeting is probably main of interest only to RASC members.
7:00 PM Pre-meeting mix and mingle.
7:30 PM Annual General Meeting
Wednesday, Dec 12, 2018
7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Windsor Park Community League Hall*
11840 87 Ave
* Note: Outside shoes are not permitted inside the hall.
AstroImaging Community Café is a potluck of shorter and longer presentations by astroimagers for astroimagers! Do you enjoy taking and/or viewing pictures of the sky? Are you looking for some pointers to up your skill set or turn that “nice” shot into “calendar image!”? Maybe in the last couple of months you have 5 images, or made 4 time-lapses that are too much for the AstroImaging Corner at our Regular Meetings. Whether you take 4 minutes or want to share a 20 minute backstory for a specially composed a shot, or demo a technique others can benefit from, bring it to our community!
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RASC Regular Meeting
TELUS World of Science – Zeidler Dome
FREE and open to the public.
7:00 PM Meet and Greet
7:30 PM Guest Speaker
Orion in Infrared. Imaged by the Herschel Space Observatory
Stars form in the coldest, densest collections of interstellar gas, called molecular clouds. Observations in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies show that molecular cloud mass is strongly related to the rate stars form. This relationship is rather surprising since it continues over a range of galaxy types and environments, suggesting that stars form through a common process. What controls that process, however, remains elusive. I will present recent observations of molecular clouds taken by new, state-of-the-art radio telescopes that are beginning to unravel the process of star formation. The quality of these observations is an enormous improvement from previous observations and has lead to an on-going revolution in our understanding of star formation.
FREE event open to the public.
Thinking about buying a telescope, for yourself or as a gift for someone else? Want to avoid buying a “hobby killer” or “trash scope”? Then this Café is for you! Come hear Geoff Robertson and Luca Vanzella explain what to to look for and what to avoid. We will have several of telescopes of different kinds on hand to help the discussion. And we will look at some good deals on the internet.
Astro Café – How to Buy a Telescope
Wednesday, Nov 21, 2018
7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Windsor Park Community League Hall*
11840 87 Ave
FREE event open to the public.
* Note: Outside shoes are not permitted inside the hall.
RASC Regular Meeting
TELUS World of Science – Zeidler Dome
FREE and open to the public.
7:00 PM Pre-meeting mix and mingle.
7:30 PM Member Presentations
RASC Regular Meeting
TELUS World of Science – Zeidler Dome
FREE and open to the public.
7:00 PM Meet and Greet
7:30 PM Guest Speaker
The Lunar Interior
We know many things about our closest neighbor, the Moon. Yet, its deepest part, close to the center, remains not well known. In this presentation, I will give a brief overview of what we know about the Moon and its interior and how this information is obtained. I will also show examples of the work that we do in my research group, where we use observations on the rotation of the Moon as a way to gather information about its deep interior.
The RASC 2019 Observer’s Calendar will be available for purchase at the October to December Regular Meetings. Cost is again the low, low price of $15 each. Please bring exact cash to the meeting.
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Wednesday, Sep 26, 2018
7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Windsor Park Community League Hall*
11840 87 Ave
* Note: Outside shoes are not permitted inside the hall.
Do you enjoy taking and/or viewing pictures of the sky? Are you looking for some pointers to up your skill set or turn that “nice” shot into “calendar image!”? Maybe in the last couple of months you have 5 images, or made 4 time-lapses that are too much for the AstroImaging Corner at our Regular Meetings. Whether you take 4 minutes or want to share a 20 minute backstory for a specially composed a shot, or demo a technique others can benefit from, bring it to our community!
Keep reading to learn how to use SignUp to add your contribution to the self-guided potluck that is AstroImaging Community!
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