Video transcript of meeting
- Artemis, the film – Nathan Hellner-Mestelman
- RASC Robotic Telescope – David Lee
- Science Team will be observing variable stars
- Education – classroom outreach
- Buying time on the scope or the datasets is available for members
- Mars – Brock Johnston, Bill Weir & David Lee
- Dec 15th – Brock’s photo and Bill’s sketch
- Occultation of Mars by the Moon
- Bill is observing Mars monthly
- Rimouski observing conditions – Michel Michaud
- Observatory equipment is working well
- Waiting for better conditions when colder weather arrives
- Buy & Sell review – items for sale on Victoria Centre’s website – Joe Carr
- Astrophotography SIG – Dec 28th – Dave Payne
- Discussion
- A deep field taken by James Webb Space Telescope – 9 days, 100,000 galaxies
- GAIA dataset
- Speakers for next year?
- The Human Cosmos, Civilization and the Stars by Jo Marchant – at Munro’s Books for $10 – Mary Anne Gervais loves this book – Author’s website
- Apodizing Mask – used to observe the bright planets – Bill Weir
- Boosting Performance by Apodization by Ernest Pfannenschmidt (April 2003 JRASC)
- Old Dec 2003 issue of our SkyNews has Ernie’s obit in it with an image of the refractor. Also there’s an image of a Mars map that he did. It inspired me to do the same in 2005 because in my arrogance I thought, Pfffftt, how difficult could that be? Turned out it was. Takes a lot of luck too to get all of the phases.
- Next meeting – Jan 9, 2022 starting at 7:00PM