Video transcript of meeting
- Delivery of Calendars & Handbooks – Lauri Roche & Chris Gainor
- Delivery of RASC 2022 Calendars for Victoria Centre should happen tomorrow
- 4 members present still don’t have their Observers Handbooks – Duane Weaver, Brock Johnston, Bill Weir
- The last Board meeting was dedicated to getting the delivery issues resolved
- Pastel Paintings of the planets – Nathan Hellner-Mestelman
- Jupiter – from Juno mission image
- Earth and the Moon from space
- Saturn in monochrome
- Mars – Olympus Mons and Valles Marineris juxtaposed
- Discussion about artistic technique
- Cordillera Mountains & Mare Oriental lunar features – Randy Enkin
- Mare Orientale – libration sketch by Bill Weir
- Randy’s lunar sketches for the Isobel Williamson Lunar Observing Program
- Youngest crater – Lunar Explorer photo
- Mare Orientale extreme libration photo by Tom Glenn – Nov 27, 2021
- IAU switched east and west references for the Moon in 1961
- Mare Orientale is only visible to this degree every few years
- A Lunar Alpine Quest – Reg Dunkley
- Original presentation to Victoria Centre on Nov 6, 2017
- Dorothy Paul – sketch of lunar mountains from the 2017 Solar Eclipse
- Reg took a photo of the same area at the 2017 Solar Eclipse and measured the height of one of the mountains on the Moon and the height of the solar chromosphere
- Identified the particular mountain using Solar Eclipse Maestro software and some trigonometry from Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter (LRO)
- Schluter Crater is likely the candidate for the gap in the corona imaged by Reg
- Brock Johnston showed a photo of the partial eclipse featuring similar “bumps” in the partial eclipse line
- Edmonton astrophotos – Dave Robinson
- JWST telescope in a star field time lapse imaged by Anwar Abdur
- Jan 28, 2022 text observing report from Luca Vanzella – Orion & Auriga and NGCs in Cancer, Gemini, Monoceros
- SIG meetings – David Lee
- Getting Started in Astronomy – this Tuesday
- Electronically Assisted Astronomy (EAA) – this Thursday
- James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) – Chris Gainor
- Switched on the instruments, and all are functional
- Future dreams in view as Canadian instruments power up aboard James Webb Space Telescope – Globe & Mail
- Apollo 16 article coming up in JRASC
- History of Hubble – Chris is getting copies of the book for distribution around Victoria
- Victoria Centre AGM – Randy Enkin
- Monday, Feb 21st – starting at 7PM online
- Keynote Speaker: Life and Times of the Sky Quality Meter – Doug Welch