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SUMMARY:October 26th Meeting: 'Astro Navigation - Stars & Time'
DESCRIPTION:Photo: Chris Cottle – Retired Nautical Navigator and a Weapons Officer\, Royal Canadian Navy \nWhen: Thursday\, October 26th at 7pm\nWhere: Beban Park Social Centre\, Room 3\n\n\nWe’re thrilled to have Chris Cottle present to us.\nRetired Nautical Navigator and Weapons Officer\, Royal Canadian Navy.\nBrief:  From the earliest of modern man\, we have needed to know where we are going and where we were. This helped make commerce efficient and also permitted wars. Thousands of years ago\, we realized we could follow the stars and the sun to guide us to where we wanted to go\, but it had limitations. Many steps had to fall into place in order to get to the days of GPS. This lecture discusses this progression of ocean-going navigation. \nBio:  I went to Royal Military College in the early 1970s and I was in the Royal Canadian Navy from 1970 to 1982. I was a Nautical Navigator and a Weapons Officer aboard the Canadian Destroyers. Our job was to chase submarines of the USSR and help protect US Navy Aircraft Carrier groups. That role seems to have returned. I then went back to school to become a dentist\, and I remained in the Canadian Forces Dental Services until 1991. I retired from the military and had a private dental practice north of Toronto. My hobbies include astronomy and repairing 100+ year old typewriters. I have retired in Courtenay and other than enjoying life with my wife\, I “work” at my hobbies. \n*The presentation will begin shortly after 7pm. Please try to arrive and seat early.\n*Free for members. Non-members may attend once for free and then we encourage them to join.\nVolunteers to set-up chairs and tables at 6:15pm are always welcome.\n\n 
URL:https://www.nanaimoastronomy.com/events/october-26th-meeting-astro-navigation-stars-time/
LOCATION:Beban Park Social Centre – Rooms 2&3\, 2300 Bowen Rd\, Nanaimo\, BC\, V9T 3K7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Society Meeting
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SUMMARY:March Main Meeting - We are all made of stardust but gold\, silver and platinum are neutron stardust'
DESCRIPTION:All current meetings are online for paid Society members only who will receive their meeting invites by email. \n  \nGuests can attend one meeting for free and are then encouraged to join. If you’d like to attend this online presentation please email info@nanaimoastronomy.com \n  \n\nWe’re very happy to have Dr JJ Eldridge presenting to us from New Zealand ! \nAssociate Professor and the current academic head of the Department of Physics at the University of Auckland. \nPresentation \n\n‘We are all made of stardust\nbut gold\, silver and platinum are neutron stardust’\n  \n \n  \nBrief :\nOne of the deepest facts that astrophysics reveals is that the elements important for life to exist arise from the lives and death of stars. In this presentation I will describe the different stars that produce different elements. I will cover the surprizing result that single stars like our Sun would produce different elements if they were in a binary stars system. I will also descrbie how our understanding of the source of elements like gold\, silver and platinum chanced in 2017 when we witnessed and event that finally produced these elements.\nBio :\nDr JJ Eldridge is currently an Associate Professor and the current academic head of the Department of Physics at the University of Auckland. Her general research concerns the lives and deaths of stars\, from those in our own Galaxy to those in galaxies at the edge of the observable Universe. Particularly the effects of binary interactions on the lives of binary stars and how these change the appearance of galaxies\, alter the rates of different types of supernovae and gravitational wave events.\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.nanaimoastronomy.com/events/march-public-meeting-details-tbc/
LOCATION:BC
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SUMMARY:February Members Night : The Secret life of Stars
DESCRIPTION:Our members night presentation. Meeting is online by email invite for paid members only.\n\n\n\nAs part of our Members night Astronomy-101 theme for 2022\, our Vice President Tony Puerzer takes you on an interactive presentation :-\n\n ‘The Secret Lives of the Stars’\n \n\n\n\n  \n  \n\nImage credit : NASA/ESA\, SOHO-EIT Consortium\n\n\nBRIEF :\n\nWhen you look up at the night sky you’ll notice that the stars don’t all appear the same. Besides the obvious differences in brightness\, you’ll see subtle variations in colour – from blue white to ruddy orange. Astronomers have used clues such as these to uncover the secret lives of the stars – including our star the Sun. During this interactive presentation you’ll discover how astronomers plotted the stars on a simple chart (with a very complex name!) which enabled us to uncover the multi-billion year history of stars such as our Sun. \n\nBIO : \nTony Puerzer\, VP Nanaimo Astronomy Society. \nTony’s lifelong interest in astronomy outreach and education included five years as a lecturer at the HR MacMillan Planetarium in Vancouver. From 2016 to 2019 he authored the popular Capturing The Universe column for SkyNews Magazine\, which is published by the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. He is currently contributing articles for the ongoing First Exposure column in Sky & Telescope magazine.
URL:https://www.nanaimoastronomy.com/events/february-public-meeting-details/
LOCATION:BC
CATEGORIES:Society Meeting
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SUMMARY:June Astronomy Meeting - Online
DESCRIPTION:Details to be confirmed.\n\n\nWe have moved to an online meeting format\, which we are currently only offering to paid Society members.\n\n\n\nMembers\, please keep an eye on your email for meeting details.
URL:https://www.nanaimoastronomy.com/events/june-public-meeting/
LOCATION:BC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190124T190000
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SUMMARY:January Astronomy Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The Outer Solar System + Are we alone?….the search for alien life..\n  \n \n  \n\nHappy New orbit around our host star!\n\n\n \n\n\nOur first meeting of 2019.\n\n\n \n\n\nFree for members. Non-members can attend once for free and are then encouraged to join.\n\n\n \n\n\nTwo great presentations lined up for you.\n\n\n \n\n\nShort Presentation : ‘Are we alone?’     \n by Club member Art Charbonneau\n\n\n \n\n\nMain presentation \n‘Exploration of the Outer Solar System: Our Window to Planet Formation’   \nby DAO Planetary Scientist Wes Fraser.\n\n\n \n\n\nAbstract :\n\n\nThe outer Solar System beyond Neptune has long been elusive\, and only accessible through the world’s largest telescopes. Despite this limitation\, observations of Kuiper Belt objects\, and even further distant bodies have provided our best window into the earliest stages of planet formation and the compositional building blocks that went into everything from Kuiper Belt objects\, dwarf planets like Pluto\, and the gas giants themselves. Excitingly\, the New Horizons spacecraft has just flown past the small object 2014 MU69\, providing us our first in-situ observations of a primordial icy Kuiper Belt object. Though only a few images have trickled in\, the results have been astounding\, revealing details of the planetesimal growth process that will fundamentally change the picture of how these small bodies grew.\n\n\n \n\n\nIn this presentation I will provide the modern view of the outer Solar System\, and the objects found there. This presentation will involve reference to running telescope programs like my Colours of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey\, and the exciting results from New Horizons. I will provide the current best picture of the life of an icy body\, and what exactly these objects are made from. I will present how we think the outer Solar System’s denizens grew from dust and gas\, evolved to their current shapes\, and then were violently pushed to where we see them today. \n\n\n \n\n\nBio:\n\n\nWes Fraser is a planetary scientist and astronomer with interest in planet formation\, and the compositions of icy bodies in the outer Solar System. An experienced observer\, Wes has been gathering telescopic observations of Kuiper Belt Objects and comets through his PhD which he was awarded in 2008\, to the current day where he is the Principal Investigator for various telescope projects aimed at studying the Kuiper Belt. Having recently moved on from a lectureship at Queen’s University\, Belfast\, Dr. Fraser has moved back to Victoria\, BC where he continues to work with astronomers at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory\, and colleagues at Caltech. Wes is participating in the preparations for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope\, and actively hunting for the elusive Planet 9.
URL:https://www.nanaimoastronomy.com/events/january-public-meeting-tbc/
LOCATION:Beban Park Social Centre – Rooms 2&3\, 2300 Bowen Rd\, Nanaimo\, BC\, V9T 3K7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Society Meeting
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