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  • January Meeting : Exploring the Oceans of the Solar System

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    Beban Park Social Centre - Rooms 2&3 2300 Bowen Rd, Nanaimo, BC, Canada

    'Exploring the Oceans of the Solar System', plus 'My Backyard Observatory'   Credit UVic Photo Services. 2 Presentations tonight for our first meeting of 2020. Main Presentation : Jon Willis, Associate Professor UVIC :- 'Exploring the Oceans of the Solar System' Abstract: The solar system moons Europa and Enceladus harbour vast sub-surface oceans. How might […]

  • June Astronomy Meeting – Online

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    Details to be confirmed. We have moved to an online meeting format, which we are currently only offering to paid Society members. Members, please keep an eye on your email for meeting details.

  • November Member’s night : Astrophotography Show & Tell

    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. Meeting will be online for paid members only. Members will receive email meeting invites.  

  • September monthly Meeting + AGM

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    Hope you are having a great summer....all things considered! So 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. But as you all know that didn't […]

  • October Main Meeting : The Sun, Earth, and us.

    Our meetings are currently online for members only. Members should be receiving email invitations for upcoming meetings.   We're very happy to have Dr Ken Tapping presenting to us. Astronomer with the National Research Council’s Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory near Penticton. Presentation ''The Sun, Earth, and us'   Brief : Now, more than at any time in […]

  • November Main Meeting : Sketching the Moon

    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.   We're very happy to have Randy Enkin presenting to us. President, Victoria chapter of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Presentation 'Selenophile or Lunatic? Thirty Years of Observing and Loving […]

  • Jan Meeting : New Eyes on the Universe and Black Holes with JWST

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    Our January meeting for paid members is online via Zoom invite. Members please check your emails! We're very happy to have Dr. Alexandra Tetarenko presenting to us. NASA Einstein Fellow, Texas Tech University Presentation ' New Eyes on the Universe and Black Holes with JWST'   BRIEF : The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is NASA's next generation […]

  • February Members Night : The Secret life of Stars

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    Our members night presentation. Meeting is online by email invite for paid members only. As part of our Members night Astronomy-101 theme for 2022, our Vice President Tony Puerzer takes you on an interactive presentation :-  'The Secret Lives of the Stars'     Image credit : NASA/ESA, SOHO-EIT Consortium BRIEF : When you look up […]

  • Feb Main Meeting : A year of Aurora Chasing

    Our members night presentation. Meeting is online by email invite for paid members only. We're very happy to have Jeremy Kuzub presenting to us. Founder of Capture North Presentation 'A year of Aurora Chasing'   Brief : Jeremy will share a year of Aurora travel and explore and along the way touch on the science behind the aurora […]