Host: Randy Attwood

Presentations

Allan Connery - Telescope Loan Program Update

Simon Berlet - Maintaining the CFHT

Keith Jarvie - Life on Venus?

Ron Macnaughton - Microbial Mats on Earth -  and perhaps on Mars.

What was called "the "oldest uncontested biogenic structure" found on Earth is a microbial mat from West Australia.   These structures form when microbes glue a layer of sediment together leaving characteristic patterns. If life existed on Mars,  it is possible that similar structures might be detected by the Perseverance rover which has instruments to identify large carbon containing molecules.

David Maynard - My Astrophotography Learning Experience

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87464539803