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SUMMARY:May Meeting: Science Education in a Changing World plus The Celestial Sphere
DESCRIPTION:Our May hybrid meeting. Online and in person. Society members will receive an email meeting invite. \nThe public are welcome to attend meeting once for free and then encouraged to join the society. \nMain Presentation \nWe’re very happy to have Carl Savage presenting to us. Science Educator\, Ballenas Secondary School \n‘Science Education in a Changing World’ \n \nCarl Savage and Jasmine at the Nanoose Observatory\, Nanoose Bay\, B.C. Photo by Vicki Swan\nBrief :\n\nIn today’s ever-changing technological society\, the skills that drive innovation and define success include problem-solving\, critical thinking\, creative thinking\, and effective communication. In the sciences\, these skills combine logic\, technology and a pinch of old fashion learning that requires students to have a learning environment and mindset different from those of the past. Using Project Based Learning is one way our classrooms are changing to meet the needs of today’s learners. These changes lead to skill development and understanding that require teachers to be more than traditional teachers. The projects also require students to take on a more significant role in their education than the traditional learner. This talk will explore how these changes are affecting how we teach and how students learn through innovative learning projects\, including nuclear reactors\, CubeSat and experiments that have run on the international space station\, to name a few.Bio : \nI became interested in astronomy in the early 1970s when my parents took me to the Calgary Centennial Planetarium. I have worked as an optical and electrical system designer for several national and international companies\, never considering becoming a teacher. One of my former managers suggested I consider a career in teaching after watching me do technical training for the equipment I was designing. This interaction set me on a path that led me to teacher training in 2002\, and I have never looked back. I have taught Physics\, Biology\, Mathematics\, Calculus\, and general science courses at three high schools. I have also designed two original courses for the district I am currently teaching in\, Astronomy and Science Research Methods.\nAs a teacher\, I have had the pleasure of teaching many talented students. With my assistance\, their hard work and dedication to their education have led me to be nominated for an APEGA teacher excellence award in 2004 and a finalist for the Premier’s Awards for Excellence in Education in 2018. In 2022 I received a Certificate of Achievement in STEM education from the Prime Minister of Canada and a winner of the We Love Teachers from Staples Canada. \n\n\n———————————————\n\n\nShort Presentation\nWe are very pleased to have NAS member Gregory Arkos\, Ph.D.\nProfessor\, Department of Physics\, Engineering & Astronomy\nVancouver Island University‘Holding the universe in your hands: the Trippensee celestial sphere’\n\nBrief: \nWe live in a time when extraordinary images of our universe are only ever a click away; observatories such as the Keck Telescopes\, CFHT\, Hubble\, James Webb and others produce regular reminders of our modern understanding of the universe and our place within it.  So it is perhaps surprising that an early model of the night sky\, the celestial sphere\, remains a useful concept even today.  Join me as I explore its history and use in astronomy\, demonstrated using a classic celestial sphere produced in the early 1990’s by Trippensee. \nBio: \nThough space has fascinated Greg Arkos since his early childhood\, a career in astronomy would only follow later in life.  Greg completed a BSc Honours degree in Geophysics at the University of Manitoba before attaining his PhD in space physics at the University of British Columbia.  A postdoctoral research position with the Space Research Group at the University of Calgary followed\, eventually leading to an ongoing sessional teaching position at Mount Royal College.  Greg joined the Department of Physics\, Engineering & Astronomy at Vancouver Island University in 2003 as a full-time faculty member and has been happily teaching there ever since!  His current interests include all things astronomical\, science outreach and the promotion of scientific literacy.  Greg was a founding member of the award winning\, VIU produced science-themed radio program `Not Rocket Science’.  On clear nights he may be found imaging astronomical phenomena of all kinds from his deck or on the roof of the physics building introducing VIU’s astronomy students to the wonders of the night sky.
URL:https://www.nanaimoastronomy.com/events/may-meeting-science-education-in-a-changing-world-plus-the-celestial-sphere/
LOCATION:Beban Park Social Centre – Rooms 2&3\, 2300 Bowen Rd\, Nanaimo\, BC\, V9T 3K7\, Canada
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SUMMARY:April meeting. The early USSR space program\, plus VIU Astronomy student’s presentation.
DESCRIPTION:Our April hybrid meeting. Online and in person. Society members will receive an email meeting invite. \n\nMain Presentation \nWe’re very happy to have Dr. David Prud’homme presenting to us. \n\n\n\n‘Early Rocketry and Space Technology in the USSR’\n\nBrief : \nThe US and USSR were in a race to develop ICBM’s (Intercontinental Ballistic Missles) to effectively deliver nuclear warheads.  This was the foundation of the “Space Race”\, to show the world which political system – America’s democracy or the USSR’s communism – could prove their technological prowess in order to capture the minds and hearts of other nations.  This talk will discuss some early achievements – as well as tragedies – of the Soviet space program. \nBio : \nDr. David Prud’homme has had a lifelong interest in Russia.  As a child of the space age\, he became excited about the early manned flights of both the Soviet Union and the United States.  Years later\, when the veil was lifted from the secrecy of the Russian space program\, David became fascinated by what we didn’t know about Russia.  Several trips to both the former USSR and post-Soviet Russia have helped him understand this important period of cold war history. \n\n———————————\n\nShort Presentation‘ \nVancouver Island University Astronomy Student Presentation hosted by VIU Astronomy Professor (and NAS member) Greg Arkos’\n\n\nBrief :Vancouver Island University (VIU) students with a minimum of third year standing are able to enrol in two specialized elective courses in astronomy: The History of Astronomy (ASTR 312) and Exploring the Universe (ASTR 311).  Unlike our more general “survey style” first year astronomy offerings\, the third year courses put significantly greater emphasis on a smaller set of topics but without requiring previous astronomical or mathematical background.  An important component of both courses is a 20 minute group presentation made to the class at the end of the semester.  This short “teaching” lecture is on a topic of interest selected by each group and which falls within the scope of the material covered in class (but without repeating class material). \nIt has been a goal for many years to expand on the strong ties that exist between the Nanaimo Astronomy Society & VIU as well as to find ways to more directly include students from the VIU astronomy program in NAS events.  Those aspirations are finally coming to fruition as one of the top groups from the spring semester is scheduled to share their ASTR 311 presentation with NAS members during the April meeting!  The hope is that such cooperative ventures between NAS and VIU will become regular occurrences in the years to come… \nBio : \nA group of 2-4 third year astronomy students enrolled in ASTR 311. \n\n 
URL:https://www.nanaimoastronomy.com/events/april-meeting-the-early-ussr-space-program-plus-viu-astronomy-students-presentation/
LOCATION:Beban Park Social Centre – Rooms 2&3\, 2300 Bowen Rd\, Nanaimo\, BC\, V9T 3K7\, Canada
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SUMMARY:March 23rd Meeting : Exploring the Solar System's Fossils
DESCRIPTION:Details of this month’s meeting which will be online only. Paid members will receive email invitations to the online meeting.\n\n‘Exploring the Solar System’s Fossils. My life in the bush of Meteorites!’\n  \n \nPhoto : Murray Paulson and Alan Hildebrandt searching the Buzzard Coulee strewn field in the spring of 2009 \n  \n\nWe’re very happy to have Murray D. Paulson remotely presenting to us over ZOOM. \n\n\nPresentation \n‘Exploring the Solar System’s Fossils. My life in the bush of Meteorites‘ \n\n\nBio & Brief :\nI felt the starry sky’s calling when I was 9 years old and these many years later it still fascinates me.  Whether viewing the planets\, clusters\, distant nebula\, or a colorful double\, the sky brings me home. In the 90s I discovered Meteorites and Eclipses which I fell in love with. Neither of these activities is helping the RRSPs along! In 2009 I was asked to write the Planets section of the RASC’s Observers Handbook and my 15th edition is on its way.\nI have lived in lucky times with the Buzzard Coulee meteorite fall and the publication of the discovery of the Whitecourt Meteorite impact in 2008. These events changed my life. What a riot wandering through a farm field and finding stones that have only recently arrived from space and documenting them. A year later I was finding Iron Meteorites in the woods south east of the town of Whitecourt Alberta at the behest of Dr. Chris Herd. These fragments were 1100 years old and gave me a sense of the incredible energy of that impact which tore the 5+ tons of Nickel Iron into fragments and excavated a 37 m crater. We dutifully mapped the strewn field and presented Dr. Herd with the weights and measures of more than 3500 specimens. \nFinding meteorites and doing science was the thrill of a lifetime. In this presentation\, we will review what meteorites are and look at some of my adventures hunting for these elusive stones. \n\n  \n 
URL:https://www.nanaimoastronomy.com/events/march-23rd-meeting-exploring-the-solar-systems-fossils/
LOCATION:BC
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DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230223T210000
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SUMMARY:Feb Meeting : 'Astronomy - The Art'
DESCRIPTION:Details of our meeting this month. Paid members will receive a Zoom invite. This meeting is online only. Details below :- \nWe’re very happy to have Chris Vaughan (Digital Starlab Certified Presenter and Trainer ; Senior Astronomer and Earth Scientist\, AstroGeo.ca) present to us. \nPresentation \n‘Astronomy – The Art’\n \n  \nWe’re very happy to have Chris Vaughan (Digital Starlab Certified Presenter and Trainer ; Senior Astronomer and Earth Scientist\, AstroGeo.ca) present to us. \n  \nPresentation \n‘Astronomy – The Art’\nBrief :\nUsing real photographs and images from amateur and professional astronomers\, as well as space-borne telescopes and robotic craft\, we’ll take a tour\, from our own backyard to the edge of the observable Universe. We’ll take time to appreciate the beauty of the images and learn about the fascinating science behind each of them. The Aurorae\, the Sun\, mighty Jupiter and beautiful Saturn\, the most beautiful parts of our own galaxy\, and peeks at our distant neighbours. All are delights for the eyes and food for thought! \n  \nBio :\nChris Vaughan aka @AstroGeoGuy is an Astronomer and Earth Scientist. Since 1996\, Chris has been delivering planetarium experiences\, visiting classrooms\, hosting science-themed assemblies\, running science clubs\, and holding stargazing parties for schools and other groups in southern Ontario. He is the author of a weekly astronomy blog for non-astronomers called Astronomy Skylights\, which is read by subscribers worldwide. Chris has written stories for SkyNews\, Canada’s astronomy magazine. For the website Space.com\, he writes a monthly calendar of astro-events\, and many columns focused on Mobile Astronomy Apps. Chris’ content is used in the popular SkySafari 6 and Star Walk 2 smartphone apps and the Starry Night software package. \n  \nChris is an operator and tour guide for the David Dunlap Observatory’s 74″ (1.88 m) Great Telescope\, a presenter in their Skylab room\, and a speaker at their public programs. He regularly presents The Sky This Month at the monthly Recreational Astronomy Night meetings of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Toronto Centre\, and presents RASC’s Insider’s Guide to the Galaxy webcasts on YouTube. Chris is the recipient of the 2014 and 2022 Bertram Topham Awards for Observing\, the 2013\, 2014 and 2018 Andrew Elvins Awards for Promotion of Astronomy\, and the 2019 Ostrander Ramsey and the 2022 Simon Newcomb Award for Astronomical Writing from the RASC. In 2018\, Chris was awarded the Reach for the Stars Award from the City of Markham in recognition of his promotion of astronomy and fight against light pollution in Thornhill. In 2021\, Chris co-authored the bestselling book 110 Things to See With a Telescope. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.nanaimoastronomy.com/events/feb-meeting-astronomy-the-art/
LOCATION:BC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230126T190000
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SUMMARY:Jan meeting : Intruders in the night sky
DESCRIPTION:Happy New Year! \nWe’re very happy to have Patrick Seitzer (Research Professor Emeritus in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Michigan) present to us remotely over Zoom. \nPresentation \n‘Intruders in the night sky: satellites\, more satellites\, and even more satellites’\n\n \nImage Credit : CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/DECam DELVE Survey. (DECam shot of 19 starlinks crossing the field of view of the Dark Energy Camera on the 4.0-m Blanco telescope at Cerro Tololo in Chile) \n  \nWhen : Thursday January 26th at 7pm \nWhere : In Person & Online \nIn-Person : Beban Park Social Centre Rooms 2/3 \nOnline : Zoom email invite to Society members \n  \nBrief : In the next decade over 400\,000 new satellites are planned to be launched into low Earth orbit (LEO). Compare this to some 50\,000 objects that are currently tracked and maintained in the catalog of Earth orbiting objects. Many\, if not all\, of these new satellites could be visible to the unaided eye even in light polluted skies. I’ll review why these new satellites are being launched\, and what astronomers are trying to do about them. \nBio : Patrick Seitzer is a Research Professor Emeritus in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor\, MI. His speciality is optical observations of space debris: surveys to determine the amount of such debris at geosynchronous orbit (GEO) followed by photometric and spectrographic observations of individual pieces to determine their physical nature. Recently he has worked on the problem of large numbers of bright satellites and how they will affect the appearance of the night sky.
URL:https://www.nanaimoastronomy.com/events/jan-meeting-details-tbc/
LOCATION:Beban Park Social Centre – Rooms 2&3\, 2300 Bowen Rd\, Nanaimo\, BC\, V9T 3K7\, Canada
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SUMMARY:November Meeting : Defending Earth\, One Cosmic Crash Test at a Time
DESCRIPTION:Details of our meeting this month. We continue to hold hybrid in-person and online Zoom meetings for our paid members\, who will receive email meeting notifications. The public are welcome to attend our meetings once for free and are then encouraged to join. \n  \n‘Defending Earth\, One Cosmic Crash Test at a Time’\n \nCredit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve GribbenWe’re very happy to have NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador Jennie ‘Starstuff’ King present to us. \n  \nDescription:- \nOn September 26\, 2022\, a quiet binary asteroid system had a very interesting day. Didymos\, the larger asteroid of the system\, watched as a spacecraft deliberately slammed into its smaller moonlet\, Dimorphos. Meanwhile\, telescopes on Earth directed their gaze toward this event in order to witness the aftermath of the collision and to collect valuable data. This dramatic encounter\, known as the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test)\, was humanity’s first test of the kinetic impactor method for asteroid deflection– in other words\, it marked the first time anyone has tried to change an asteroid’s path through space. Because the asteroid Dimorphos poses no danger to Earth\, it provided a welcome opportunity to demonstrate technology that could one day save lives in the event of a real threat. This talk will address the goals and results of this cosmic crash test\, as well as the broader topic of humanity’s planetary defense efforts. \nBio :- \nJennie “Starstuff” King is a graduate of the University of Virginia’s astronomy program. While studying astronomy and physics\, she discovered her deep love of STEM education and outreach. She first brought her love of space exploration to the classroom as a high school AP Physics and Engineering teacher in Denver\, Colorado. Jennie became a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador in order to encourage others to explore the wonders of the cosmos with their hearts\, minds and imaginations. As a new Vancouver area resident\, Jennie looks forward to connecting with the astronomy and STEM education communities of BC and beyond. Solar System Ambassador Directory Link   /   Twitter Profile
URL:https://www.nanaimoastronomy.com/events/november-meeting-tbc/
LOCATION:Beban Park Social Centre – Rooms 2&3\, 2300 Bowen Rd\, Nanaimo\, BC\, V9T 3K7\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20221027T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20221027T210000
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SUMMARY:October meeting : Imaging Exoplanets
DESCRIPTION:We’re very happy to have Dr Garima Singh presenting over Zoom to us. \nPostdoctoral Fellow at the NRC Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Centre\, Victoria. \n\nPaid members will receive an email ZOOM meeting invite.  \nMembers of the public can attend our meetings once for free\, and are then encouraged to join. \n \n			\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Brief : \nExoplanets are the planets that orbit stars other than the Sun. As of today\, roughly 5000 exoplanets have been discovered in our Milky Way galaxy alone. NASA’s statistics state that each of the 300 billion stars in our galaxy has at least one planet orbiting it. Such exoplanet discoveries are already helping us to understand how planets form and evolve and what the atmospheres of exo-worlds look like\, however\, finding signs of life outside of Earth is still an unachievable feat.    \nOne way to find exoplanets is the direct imaging method\, which translates into taking family portraits of extra-solar systems using the current ground-based telescopes (5-10-meters). Exoplanets are roughly thousand to ten billion times fainter than their stars and finding such dim signals in the presence of overwhelmingly bright stars is technically challenging. Moreover\, the light of a star-planet pair that traverses through the Earth is blurred by the atmospheric layers of different temperatures\, humidity\, and wind speeds. The structure of telescopes also vibrates due to the motion of motors and local wind\, which collectively\, makes it difficult to disentangle exoplanetary signals from the starlight. In this talk\, I will discuss how the current state-of-art instruments overcome these challenges and acquire images of exoplanets. I will also discuss the cutting-edge research being performed at HAA to improve the performance of such instruments.  \n \nBio :  \nGarima Singh is a postdoctoral fellow at HAA. She is specialized in developing instruments that take direct images of exoplanets. She completed her Ph.D. in 2015 in collaboration between Subaru Telescope in Hawaii and Paris Observatory in France. \nBefore moving to Canada\, two years ago\, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Paris Observatory where she continued improving the wavefront sensing capabilities of exoplanet imaging instruments. 
URL:https://www.nanaimoastronomy.com/events/october-meeting-tbc/
LOCATION:Beban Park Social Centre – Rooms 2&3\, 2300 Bowen Rd\, Nanaimo\, BC\, V9T 3K7\, Canada
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DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220922T210000
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SUMMARY:September Meeting : TBC
DESCRIPTION:Details to be confirmed.
URL:https://www.nanaimoastronomy.com/events/september-meeting-tbc/
LOCATION:Beban Park Social Centre – Rooms 2&3\, 2300 Bowen Rd\, Nanaimo\, BC\, V9T 3K7\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Sept meeting : AGM + Supermassive blackholes and the JWST
DESCRIPTION:Hope you all had a good summer. \nDetails of our meeting this month \nWe are running a Hybrid in-person/online meeting. Our speaker will be remotely presenting to us over Zoom. \nYou are welcome to join us in person or online. \n————– \nDate : Thursday 22nd Sept. 7-9pm. \nLocation : In-person – Beban Pk Social Centre rooms 2/3. \nOnline : Zoom invite by emails to members. \n(Email info@nanaimoastronomy.com if you’d like a Zoom invite link to this meeting\,) \nNOTE this presentation follows our AGM which starts at 7pm. You should have received separate email invitations for the AGM. \n\nWe’re very happy to have Dr Madeline Marshall presenting to us. \nPlaskett Fellow at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria \nPresentation \n\n‘ Supermassive Black Holes and the James Webb Space Telescope’\n \nBrief : \nThe James Webb Space Telescope\, the most advanced telescope ever sent to space\, has been taking its first observations over the last few months. Already\, we have seen some extraordinary pictures and some exciting science that hasn’t been possible before. I will talk about these images\, the latest results\, and how I will be using Webb later this year to solve some of the big mysteries about supermassive black holes. \nBio : \nDr Madeline Marshall is a Tasmanian astrophysicist currently working as a Plaskett Fellow at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria. She studies supermassive black holes in the early Universe using both simulations and space telescopes. Madeline is leading a JWST Cycle 1 program and is also involved in two JWST Guaranteed Time programs\, which will study these quasars and attempt to answer some of these mysteries.
URL:https://www.nanaimoastronomy.com/events/sept-meeting-ag-m-presenter-tbc/
LOCATION:Beban Park Social Centre – Rooms 2&3\, 2300 Bowen Rd\, Nanaimo\, BC\, V9T 3K7\, Canada
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SUMMARY:June Main Meeting : Telescopes 101 Show N Tell
DESCRIPTION:This will be an in-person meeting only due to it’s hands-on nature and live demonstrations.\n\n\n\nWe’re very happy to have Board members Tony Puerzer\, Bill Weller\, and Fraser Lee present to us. \nPresentation \n‘Telescopes 101 Show N’ Tell’\n  \n \n\n\nAre you interested in owning your own telescope\, have one already but don’t know how to use it\, or want to learn about navigating the night sky? \nSociety VP Tony Puerzer\, and Society Directors Bill Weller and Fraser Lee will give a ‘hands on’ demonstration of the different common telescope types with several examples on hand to look at. \nWe’ll also give a quick introduction on how to navigate the night sky with the tools/apps you can use to aid in night sky navigation. \nIf you have a telescope you would like some help with feel free to bring it to the meeting and we’ll do our best to help.
URL:https://www.nanaimoastronomy.com/events/june-main-meeting-using-your-beginner-telescope/
LOCATION:Beban Park Social Centre – Rooms 2&3\, 2300 Bowen Rd\, Nanaimo\, BC\, V9T 3K7\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220609T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220609T200000
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SUMMARY:June Members meeting : Probing the Stars
DESCRIPTION:Our June meeting for our members only. All paid members should have received email invites to this online meeting. \nWe’re very happy to have Society Director Bill Weller present to us. \nPresentation \n‘PROBING THE STARS’ \n 
URL:https://www.nanaimoastronomy.com/events/june-members-meeting-probing-the-stars/
LOCATION:BC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220526T190000
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SUMMARY:May main meeting - Visiting Kitt Peak and the Sonoran Desert
DESCRIPTION:This meeting is not open to the public. Society members should have received an email invite to the meeting. If not please email info@nanaimoastronomy.com. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.nanaimoastronomy.com/events/may-main-meeting-details-tbc/
LOCATION:BC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220512T190000
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SUMMARY:May Members night - Details tbc
DESCRIPTION:Meeting details to be confirmed.
URL:https://www.nanaimoastronomy.com/events/may-members-night-details-tbc/
LOCATION:BC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220428T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220428T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T134626
CREATED:20210309T183009Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220415T213330Z
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SUMMARY:April Main meeting : The Search for Life on Mars: NASA's Perseverance Rover Mission
DESCRIPTION:All current meetings are online for paid Society members only who will receive their meeting invites by email. \nIf you’d like to attend as a guest please email info@nanaimoastronomy.com \n\n\nWe’re very happy to have Chris Herd\, PhD\, BSc presenting to us. \nProfessor\, Faculty of Science – Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Admin\nUniversity of Alberta \nPresentation \n\n‘The Search for Life on Mars:\nNASA’s Perseverance Rover Mission’\n \nPhoto credit : NASA \n  \nBrief :\n\nThe talk will provide an overview of the goals of the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission\, progress thus far\, and plans for returning samples from Mars. \nBio : \nChristopher (Chris) Herd has had the dream of studying rocks from Mars since the age of 13. After an undergraduate degree in Geological Sciences from Queen’s University in Kingston\, Canada\, he studied meteorites from Mars for his PhD at the University of New Mexico\, and then worked at the NASA Johnson Space Center. Since 2003 he has been a professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Alberta. \nHis research includes studies of meteorites of a variety of types\, as well as ways of curating meteorites and future returned samples under cold and clean conditions. He is the curator of the University of Alberta Meteorite Collection—the largest university-based meteorite collection in Canada\, and home to the world’s only meteorite curation facility that operates at cold temperatures. He is a Returned Sample Science participating scientist in the Perseverance rover mission.
URL:https://www.nanaimoastronomy.com/events/march-main-presentation-preparing-the-james-webb-space-telescope/
LOCATION:BC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220414T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220414T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T134626
CREATED:20181219T062705Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220403T223526Z
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SUMMARY:April members Meeting - Dark Sky Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Our meetings are currently online for paid members only. If you are a paid member of our society\, you should be receiving the email invites with Zoom meeting links. \n\n\n  \n  \nWe’re very happy to have the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada’s Light Pollution Abatement Committee present to us. \nPresentation \n‘Creating Safe\, Secure Nighttime Environments with Responsible Lighting’ \nBrief : \nThe Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) has led the world in key aspects of the challenge of nocturnal light pollution. This talk will introduce the various programs of the RASC’s Light Pollution Abatement Committee\, the challenges of achieving safe\, healthy nighttime illumination in urbanized and rural areas\, as well as touching on the negative safety\, health and ecological consequences of poorly designed and implemented lighting strategies. \nBio : \nRoland Dechesne\, FRASC\, is a member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada’s Light Pollution Abatement Committee as well as a Past President of the Calgary Centre of the RASC and an amateur astronomer with over 40 years’ experience. He has been a popularizer of astronomy to the public for much of that time. His interests are astrophotography\, meteorites and light pollution abatement. He ‘moonlights’ as an oil and gas geologist during the day. He was recently honoured by having asteroid #10087 named for him. For this meeting\, Roland will be joined by Bob King\, the Chair of the RASC’s Light Pollution Abatement Committee and Victoria Kramkowski of that Committee\, as well as biologist Susan Holroyd who brings a wealth of knowledge about bat biology and ecology.
URL:https://www.nanaimoastronomy.com/events/april-public-meeting/
LOCATION:BC
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220324T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220324T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T134626
CREATED:20181218T060740Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220311T191803Z
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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
CATEGORIES:Society Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220310T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220310T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T134626
CREATED:20220201T182405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220304T205920Z
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SUMMARY:March Members night : Friends of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory:  Can Public Outreach Work Online?
DESCRIPTION:Our meetings are currently online for paid members of our Society\, who should receive meeting invites by email. \nFor our members meeting this month we have the Friends of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory (FDAO) : \nPresentation\n‘Can Public Outreach Work Online?’\n \n  \nBrief : \nThe Dominion Astrophysical Observatory on Observatory Hill in Saanich is anchored by the 1.8-metre Plaskett telescope\, in operation since May 1918.  The large white dome that houses the telescope is visible from almost anywhere around Victoria. Well over 100 people work at the DAO\, which is the responsibility of the National Research Council of Canada’s Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Centre.  The DAO became a national historic site in 2010. \nThe adjacent Centre of the Universe (CU) public education centre opened in 2001\, offering interactive exhibits\, telescope tours\, and programs in the theatre and small planetarium.  Members of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Victoria Centre offered night sky viewing to the public through their telescopes\, and summer camps took place. \nWhen the federal government withdrew funding from the CU in 2013\, members of the astronomy community\, strongly supported by the public and local politicians\, formed the Friends of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory\, a non-profit charitable organization. \nTill March 2020\, the FDAO held public Summer Star Parties on Saturdays on “the Hill”\, which included the above-mentioned activities.    Since then the FDAO has delivered programming online\, including monthly Star Parties\, curriculum for teachers (ExoExplorations)\, programs for students (Canadian Youth Exploring Space [CanYES])\, and virtual tours. \nTonight we’ll detail how our operations fared in this new format. \nHere’s where to check out the Centre of the Universe and Plaskett Telescope Virtual Tour before the presentation! \nBio’s : \nLauri Roche is on the board of the Friends of the DAO\, and a Royal Astronomical Society of Canada member busy teaching astronomy to students for both organizations. Amy Archer is board member\, Treasurer\, and Gift Shop Purveyor for the Friends of the DAO. Calvin Schmidt is the Curriculum development project manager for the Friends of the DAO. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.nanaimoastronomy.com/events/march-members-night-details-tbc/
LOCATION:BC
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220224T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220224T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T134626
CREATED:20210208T002255Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220213T001225Z
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SUMMARY:Feb Main Meeting : A year of Aurora Chasing
DESCRIPTION:Our members night presentation. Meeting is online by email invite for paid members only. \nWe’re very happy to have Jeremy Kuzub presenting to us. \nFounder of Capture North \nPresentation \n‘A year of Aurora Chasing‘\n  \n \n\n\n\n\n\nBrief : \nJeremy will share a year of Aurora travel and explore and along the way touch on the science behind the aurora and ways you can photograph them yourself. \nBio : \nJeremy Kuzub founded Capture North in 2019 to explore and share the science and photography techniques of aurora chasing.
URL:https://www.nanaimoastronomy.com/events/feb-main-meeting-from-vancouver-island-to-maunakea/
LOCATION:BC
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220210T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220210T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T134626
CREATED:20181218T033217Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220201T181959Z
UID:976-1644519600-1644523200@www.nanaimoastronomy.com
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220127T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220127T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T134626
CREATED:20210109T191446Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220104T205527Z
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SUMMARY:Jan Meeting : New Eyes on the Universe and Black Holes with JWST
DESCRIPTION:Our January meeting for paid members is online via Zoom invite. Members please check your emails!\n\n\n\n\n\nWe’re very happy to have Dr. Alexandra Tetarenko presenting to us. \nNASA Einstein Fellow\, Texas Tech University \nPresentation \n\n‘ New Eyes on the Universe and Black Holes with JWST’\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nBRIEF :\n\nThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is NASA’s next generation space telescope. This project is one of the most ambitious and complex astronomical space observatories ever built\, and its unparalleled capabilities to detect faint infrared light will revolutionize our understanding of the universe. In this talk\, I will introduce this incredible new telescope\, exploring its history\, as well as describing how it gathers data and why it needs to be in space. Additionally\, I will highlight some of the amazing science this telescope will deliver\, focussing on how JWST will allow us to dissect and understand some of the most enigmatic objects in the universe\, black holes!\n\n\n\n\nBIO : \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Alex Tetarenko was born and raised in Calgary\, Alberta\, Canada. She received her BSc in Astrophysics from the University of Calgary\, and she pursued graduate school at the University of Alberta\, obtaining her MSc in 2014 and her PhD in 2018. Following her PhD studies\, Alex took up an independent Fellowship at the Maunakea Observatories in Hawaii\, working at the East Asian Observatory’s James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. Alex has recently started a NASA Einstein Fellowship at Texas Tech University\, where she is focused on studying stellar-mass black hole systems in our Galaxy.
URL:https://www.nanaimoastronomy.com/events/jan-meeting-the-three-universes/
LOCATION:BC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20211125T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20211125T190000
DTSTAMP:20260423T134626
CREATED:20201109T211754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211112T222231Z
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SUMMARY:November Main Meeting : Sketching the Moon
DESCRIPTION:Our monthly meetings are currently online for Paid members only. If you wish to attend once as a guest please contact the club via email.\n\n\n\n  \nWe’re very happy to have Randy Enkin presenting to us. \nPresident\, Victoria chapter of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada \nPresentation \n‘Selenophile or Lunatic? Thirty Years of Observing and Loving the Moon’ \n \n\n  \nBrief/Bio : \n\n\nRandy Enkin avidly followed the Apollo missions from when he was 8 years old\, and had decided he would grow up to be an astronomer. With life’s turns\, he ended up being an Earth Scientist working for the Geological Survey of Canada. But the moon always attracted his attention and he is now more than 30 years into a lunar observation time series. \nFor 6 years\, Randy has been posting an artistic image of the moon every day on https://www.facebook.com/EnkinsDailyMoon and https://www.instagram.com/enkinsdailymoon/. \nRandy is often out with his telescope in the middle of the night sketching the moon\, and he recently received the Isabel Williamson Lunar Observing Program certificate. He is president of the Victoria Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.nanaimoastronomy.com/events/november-main-meeting-pranvera-hyseni-astronomy-is-for-everyone/
LOCATION:BC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20211028T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20211028T190000
DTSTAMP:20260423T134626
CREATED:20211004T020110Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211004T020255Z
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SUMMARY:October Main Meeting : The Sun\, Earth\, and us.
DESCRIPTION:Our meetings are currently online for members only. \nMembers should be receiving email invitations for upcoming meetings. \n  \nWe’re very happy to have Dr Ken Tapping presenting to us. \nAstronomer with the National Research Council’s Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory near Penticton. \nPresentation \n”The Sun\, Earth\, and us’\n \n  \nBrief : \nNow\, more than at any time in our history\, we appreciate the relationship we have with the Sun\, and how our increasingly infrastructurally-dependent way of life is making us more and more vulnerable to the Sun’s bad behaviour. \nThis talk will cover three topics. First\, a look at the Sun as a star and the role of magnetic fields in its structure and activity. Secondly\, how did we have liquid water on the Earth 3.8 billion years ago\, when the Sun was 40% fainter than it is now?  We look at the role of the greenhouse effect in regulating the Earth’s temperature from then to maybe the Industrial Revolution. What happens from here on? Finally we discuss solar activity and space weather\, its effects on our power\, transportation and communication infrastructure and our exploration of space. \nWe look at national and international networks of solar monitoring programmes.  We look at Canadian solar monitoring activities and the development of our new solar monitoring instrument\, “The Next Generation Solar Flux Monitor”\, which is now going into action here at the NRC’s Dominion Radio \nAstrophysical Observatory in Penticton. \nBio : \nDr. Ken Tapping is an astronomer with the National Research Council’s Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory near Penticton.  His interest in radio astronomy began in his teens when he turned the gift of a Cossor Marine Radar Kit into a radio telescope. \nKen was born in Kent\, England and earned his doctorate from the University of Utrecht in The Netherlands.  He worked with the UK Science Research Council as a radio astronomer and then joined Canada’s NRC in 1975 at the Algonquin Radio Observatory in Ontario.  The NRC has had a radio “stethoscope” on the sun since 1947\, and Ken became Head of the Solar Radio Monitoring Programme in 1985. \nThe Monitoring Program takes daily measurements of solar activity at the 10.7 centimetre radio wavelength and transmits this critical information world-wide to space agencies\, other government agencies\, and industries. \nDuring his career\, solar plasma physics has been Ken’s main research interest.  In 1990 he moved to the DRAO in British Columbia\, and recently presided over the installation of a Next Generation Solar Flux Monitor that was ready to observe in multiple wavelengths during the 2017 Solar Eclipse. \nKen started writing astronomy articles for the general public in 1992 and by his own admission\, “doesn’t know when to stop.” \n  \n 
URL:https://www.nanaimoastronomy.com/events/october-main-meeting-the-sun-earth-and-us/
LOCATION:BC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210923T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210923T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T134626
CREATED:20190809T033241Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210907T012631Z
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SUMMARY:September monthly Meeting + AGM
DESCRIPTION:Hope you are having a great summer….all things considered!\n\nSo we had hoped that we would be at Stage 4 of the BC Government plan for COVID restrictions lifting for our September meeting\, which would have allowed us to restart in person meetings for our membership with no restrictions.\nBut as you all know that didn’t happen\, so for now we will be continuing with Zoom online meetings.\n\nOur online meetings are for paid members only. If you are interested in attending\, please send an email to info@nanaimoastronomy.com\n\n\n———————————- \nFirst up will be our AGM\, it will be VERY short! Details will follow by separate email to our members. \n————————————- \nMain Presentation\n \nWe’re very happy to have returning presenter Matthew Williams. \nContributor to Universe Today \n‘Why Science Communication matters’\n\n\nFirst Humans on Mars : Image courtesy of NASA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrief :\n\nThe job of a science communicator has always been to make science accessible to the masses. This has become all the more important in an age where misinformation and “data fatigue” have made it increasingly difficult to distinguish between fact and fiction. So in addition to accessibility\, it is the responsibility of science communicators to be a trusted source who can make important information engaging. \nBio : \nMatthew S Williams is a regular contributor to Universe Today and Interesting Engineering and the Director of Media Communication for Mars City Design. He’s also a three-time published author of hard science fiction\, whose titles include The Cronian Incident\, The Jovian Manifesto\, and The Frost Line Fracture – also known as The Formist Series. He is the co-author of the podcast series\, The Martian Dispatches\, which will be premiering on the Space Channel this Fall. In 2022\, he and co-author Paul Patton will be releasing a book that explores the mysteries of why humanity has not yet made contact – also known as the Fermi Paradox.
URL:https://www.nanaimoastronomy.com/events/september-astronomy-meeting/
LOCATION:BC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20201112T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20201112T190000
DTSTAMP:20260423T134626
CREATED:20201023T203954Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201109T213243Z
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SUMMARY:November Member's night : Astrophotography Show & Tell
DESCRIPTION:If you are interested in astrophotography or were thinking of getting into it yourself\, we have a few member volunteers who will be showing off some of their favorite personal images and how they took them.\n\nMeeting will be online for paid members only. Members will receive email meeting invites.\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.nanaimoastronomy.com/events/november-meeting-details-tbc/
LOCATION:BC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20201022T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20201022T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T134626
CREATED:20190809T033558Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201009T225158Z
UID:1281-1603393200-1603396800@www.nanaimoastronomy.com
SUMMARY:October monthly meeting : Witnessing the most incredible astronomical event : A Total Solar Eclipse.
DESCRIPTION:We are currently meeting online only for our paid Society Members. \nCheck out our ‘Join’ page above if you’d like to become a member. Our 2020/21 fees have been halved. \n  \n  \nFour decades hunting the Moon’s shadow\nJay Anderson.\nSolar corona at the March 2015 total eclipse over Svalbard by Judy Anderson: Processing Alson Wong  \n  \nDescription \nMore than forty years ago\, I stood in a snowy field to watch the Sun fade away behind the Moon. A few years later\, opportunity gave me a chance to see another\, and from that marvelous experience\, I became an eclipse chaser. If you’ve seen one eclipse\, you haven’t seen them all\, but if you’ve seen thirty\, they become old friends with stories to tell. In this chat\, I’ll give you a taste of some of those adventures to the shadow. We’ll talk about eclipses and cycles\, the physics revealed\,  the spectacle itself\, the lands visited\, and the unexpected  escapades that accumulate along the way. \nBiography \nJay Anderson is a meteorologist and an amateur astronomer who fell into eclipse chasing by accident and good fortune. He started with a degree in Physics and Astronomy at UBC\, studied meteorology with Environment Canada in Toronto\, and then spent most of his career as a forecaster in Winnipeg and Vancouver. Weather was not his first love but familiarity bred contentment\, especially when he married his profession with his hobby. Eclipse travellers look for the best weather along the Moon’s shadow path\, so Jay became adept at teasing out global weather data to serve to chasers and the travel industry\, first in NASA and USNO publications\, and now online. With his wife Judy\, Jay has travelled the world to stand under the lunar shadow.
URL:https://www.nanaimoastronomy.com/events/october-monthly-meeting/
LOCATION:BC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200625T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200625T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T134626
CREATED:20181219T063038Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200605T184531Z
UID:1121-1593111600-1593118800@www.nanaimoastronomy.com
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
CATEGORIES:Society Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200123T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200123T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T134626
CREATED:20200103T181000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200113T003421Z
UID:1327-1579806000-1579813200@www.nanaimoastronomy.com
SUMMARY:January Meeting : Exploring the Oceans of the Solar System
DESCRIPTION:‘Exploring the Oceans of the Solar System’\, plus ‘My Backyard Observatory’\n  \n \n\nCredit UVic Photo Services. \n2 Presentations tonight for our first meeting of 2020. \nMain Presentation : Jon Willis\, Associate Professor UVIC :-\n\n‘Exploring the Oceans of the Solar System’\nAbstract: \nThe solar system moons Europa and Enceladus harbour vast sub-surface oceans. How might we one day explore them and what might we discover? Join UVic astronomer and astrobiologist Jon Willis as he travels with the Exploration Vessel Nautilus to learn what Earth’s oceans have to teach us about alien life and how to find it. \nBio: \nJon Willis is an Associate Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Victoria. As an astronomer he studies the physical contents of the Universe and his research covers many aspects of cosmology and astrophysics. Jon is particularly interested in the emerging science of astrobiology\, the search for life beyond Earth. In 2016 he published “All These Worlds Are Yours: The Scientific Search for Alien Life”\, a popular science book by Yale University Press. \n\n\n  \nShort Presentation : Society Member\, Mark Hird-Rutter :-\n\n‘Why I built a back yard observatory\, how I designed it and what my experience has been using it.’\n  \nMark Hird-Rutter Bio : Mark Hird-Rutter had a long and successful career in the field of Geomatics\, the study of measuring the earth. Within the field of Geomatics\, he focused on aerial photography\, photogrammetry\, cartography and laser scanning. For the last 12 years of his career he taught as an Instructor in Geomatics at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. One of Mark Hird-Rutter’s main tasks during his career was systems analysis and design. Making work processes work more effective\, faster and cheaper. Skills he used both in the industry and in his teaching program at BCIT. In 2006 he won the BCIT Teaching Excellence Award\, given to 5 people out of the staff of 1100 instructors. After retiring from BCIT in 2014 he moved to Chemainus. Here his focus is on his hobbies: art\, astronomy and 3D printing and also on Chemainus Climate Solutions. He is also involved in Saint Peter Quamichan Anglican Church in Duncan and helps run a program called Messy Church.  \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.nanaimoastronomy.com/events/january-meeting/
LOCATION:Beban Park Social Centre – Rooms 2&3\, 2300 Bowen Rd\, Nanaimo\, BC\, V9T 3K7\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190813T220000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190813T220000
DTSTAMP:20260423T134626
CREATED:20181220T233446Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181220T233446Z
UID:1173-1565733600-1565733600@www.nanaimoastronomy.com
SUMMARY:Persieds Meteor Shower
DESCRIPTION:Biggest Meteor Shower of the year peaks on the evening of the 13th August. \nYou can view from pretty much anywhere\, just keep looking up. Maybe one or 2 meteors every minute.
URL:https://www.nanaimoastronomy.com/events/persieds-meteor-shower/
LOCATION:BC
CATEGORIES:Astronomical Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190701T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190701T150000
DTSTAMP:20260423T134626
CREATED:20190602T182819Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190602T182819Z
UID:1252-1561975200-1561993200@www.nanaimoastronomy.com
SUMMARY:Canada Day Outreach - Mafeo Sutton Park
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nOur annual outreach on Canada Day with out Solar Telescopes. We will be set up at the end of the lagoon bridge at Mafeo Sutton Pk. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.nanaimoastronomy.com/events/canada-day-outreach-mafeo-sutton-park/
LOCATION:BC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190419T223000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190425T223000
DTSTAMP:20260423T134626
CREATED:20181220T232850Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181220T233103Z
UID:1170-1555713000-1556231400@www.nanaimoastronomy.com
SUMMARY:Lyrid Meteor Shower
DESCRIPTION:Starting on the night of the 19th\, and continuing until the 25th of April. \nYou don’t need particularly dark skies to see meteors\, just keep looking up. Maybe one a minute or so.
URL:https://www.nanaimoastronomy.com/events/lyrid-meteor-shower/
LOCATION:BC
CATEGORIES:Astronomical Event
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