Video transcript of meeting
- Island Star Party report – Dave Payne
- Thanks to all the volunteers
- Need a new leader for the star party next year
- Activities and functions
- Logistics
- Coordinating volunteers
- Coordinating with the Cowichan Valley Regional District & Parks
- Improvements and a new vision for next year’s event
- Astronomical Photos
- New 32″ telescope at Black Nugget Lake Observatory (near Edmonton) – Dave Robinson
- Ron Fisher (online gallery)
- M45 Pleiades Cluster
- M31, 32, 110 Andromeda Galaxy
- Cassiopeia’s Ghost SH2-185 – Gamma Cas star
- The Hebrew Calendar – Randy Enkin
- Jewish New Year on Friday/Saturday just past – Rosh Hashanah
- Based on a Lunar Calendar
- Review of rules to determine the New Year day
- Year number is calculated to when the human world was “created” on Oct 6, 3761 BCE
- Comparing the lunar and solar calendars
- Necessary and Unnecessary Miracles
- Discussion
- Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Updates – Mary Beth Laychak, CFHT Communications laychak@cfht.hawaii.edu
- Land Acknowledgements for both Hawai’i and the DAO lands
- Mauna Kea is one of the darkest sites in the world
- Instruments review
- Science Highlights review
- Planning for the future
- Maunakea Authority
- Maunakea Spectrographic Explorer (MSE) – Pathfinder construction
- New capabilities for CFHT
- Internship offer for opto-mechanical design and production
- Outreach to the community
- Maunakea Scholars
- Summer Interns
- School events
- CFHT Staff
- Q&A
- Announcements
- Makers SIG – upcoming
- Mallory Thorpe – next week’s speaker