Chris will discuss his experiences while observing the moon: for fun, for outreach, and for completing RASC's lunar observing programs. He'll share observing tips and target suggestions, and highlight some of the best books, apps, and web tools for exploring the moon from your driveway.
Speaker: Max King
Talk title: Space Exploration and Spacecraft Design
Speaker presentation - An Antarctic Adventure 8:00 pm
Annual General Meeting 9:00 pm
Speaker: Dr Jessie Muir
Dr. Muir's talk will fill us in on the latest exploration into Dark Matter and the work from the Dark Energy Survey.
Speaker night: Gaia Mission & Analysis of the Binary Star HD 165401
Although we are likely still decades away from discovering signs of life on worlds outside of our own solar system, much progress is being made today to identify the best potential candidates for hosting such life. In this talk, I will discuss much of what we currently know about these so-called exoplanets and how we know it. I will then highlight the steps that will be taken in the not-so-distant future to characterize the conditions on potentially habitable exoplanets using extreme telescopes. All of this in hopes that one day these efforts will culminate with the probable detection of life like our own elsewhere in the galaxy.
Speaker Night - The Mystery of Fast Radio Bursts - Zoom only
Understanding Lunar Gateway Orbit The Lunar Gateway will be placed in Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO). This presentation will explain to the audience why this is a fascinating choice. The […]
Tune in to hear about how so-called dark matter is instrumental in building galaxies and why some scientists think it might be fuzzy.
Speaker Night - Dr. Matthew J.O Svensson / The Artemis Program and the 2023 Expedition to Kamestastin Lake, Labrador
The Search for Life on Mars: NASA's Perseverance Rover Mission The talk will provide an overview of the goals of the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission, progress thus far, […]
Solar Eclipse and the Mississauga Centre's Annual General Meeting