Video transcript of meeting
Presentations and discussion
- International Women scientists – Ken Atkinson
- Oral histories/interviews at the National Science Foundation website – Vera Rubin & Helen Hogg
- Amalie Emmy Noether – showed mathematically the conservation of energy – Theoretical Minimum
- Augusta Ada King – ADA computer language, worked with Charles Babbage as the first computer programmer
- Mary Somerville – first female member of the RAS same time as Caroline Herschel. Wrote translation of La Place’s book The Mechanism of the Heavens into English.
- Alexander von Humboldt – brilliant lecturer at the university he founded in 1812. Took magnetometer measurements in his worldwide travels. His books are free on Google Books.
- Ken’s Women In Science presentation with media and links – PDF (837 kb)
- Stars in Motion – Randy Enkin
- 2012 Don Petit photo from the ISS – star trails around the axis of the Space Station
- The Sky This Week – Randy Enkin
- This Week’s Sky from Skynews
- March Equinox – the Vernal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere – equal day and night
- Lunar X visible on March 20th, but it’s a bit early for Victoria at 6:30PM
- Vesta asteroid can be observed with binoculars over the next few days – Bill Weir
- First Steps of Perseverance rover on Mars – Reg Dunkley
- Proposed route for the mission
- High resolution photos
- AAVSO – Reg Dunkley
- Comparing CCD and CMOS Sensors – Arne Henden
- K2 Rotation Rates in Young Clusters – Dr. Luisa Rebull
- Good starter program for amateurs to get started measuring variable stars
- Slooh – David Lee
- Acquiring southern hemisphere images
- Quests – active learning programs
- SIGs – David Lee
- Makers SIG is kicking off this week
- Other SIGs are enjoyable and motivating
- Antikythera Mechanism – Garry Sedun
- An ancient Greek hand-powered orrery mechanism
- Experts finally figured out how it works and have a digital model of it
- Skynews Managing Editor Allendria Brunjes will present at next week’s at Astro Cafe