Potpourri Meeting
ZoomView this talk on YouTube Presentations Chris Malicki & Noelle Starzynski: "Observing and taking Astrophotos from British Columbia" Liz and Chris spent 2 weeks with their niece, Noelle, who lives […]
View this talk on YouTube Presentations Chris Malicki & Noelle Starzynski: "Observing and taking Astrophotos from British Columbia" Liz and Chris spent 2 weeks with their niece, Noelle, who lives […]
Speaker: Professor Paul Delaney, York University. Topic: "Water, water everywhere?" View this talk on YouTube Our understanding of our own solar system has changed significantly since the advent of spacecraft exploration. […]
From The Weird to the Inspired in the World of Archaeoastronomy View this talk on YouTube This presentation introduces the great divide between pseudoscience and science that exists in the […]
Leslie J. Sage is an Astronomy Editor for NATURE magazine and Contributing Editor to the RASC JOURNAL (Second Light column) . Talk Title: My life with Nature Magazine View this […]
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission recently grabbed a sample from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu.
Host: Randy Attwood Swapna Shrivastava Reflections on achieving the Explore the Universe certificate Ron Macnaughton […]
Host: Randy Attwood Kirby Aguire: Photos of the Jupiter/Saturn conjunction Chris Malicki: The Sky for January and February. Shakeel Anwar: Conjunction Photos / Comet Neowise Retrospective Fred Benedikt: Hunting for meteorites: anyone can […]
Title: The Mission of Apollo 14 Speaker: Randy Attwood January 2021 marks the 50th anniversary of the third successful lunar landing in the Apollo program. There was extra pressure on […]
Host: Randy Attwood Presentations Simon Claughton: "Apollo 14: A Postal History" John Burgener: "A Consideration that the Fireballs Associated with the Perseid Meteor Shower are an Indication of a Previous Low […]
Speaker Night topic to be announced 2020 Mississauga Centre Annual Meeting
Host: Allan Connery YouTube video of the meeting Presentations Paul Taylor: "Paul and Gale’s NASA Adventure" Gary Crawford: "Rosette Nebula Astrophotography Project" Leslie Strike: "The Sky by our Photographers” - Astrophotography contest results! […]
Host: Randy Attwood
Speaker: Mary Beth Laychak, Director of Strategic Communications, CFHT
Talk Title: The Canada France Hawaii Telescope
Talk Abstract: The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope is a forty year old facility on the summit of Maunakea and consistently ranks among the world’s most astronomically productive. Mary Beth Laychak, director of strategic communications at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope shares the science, instrument suite and staff of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. She will discuss how those pieces work together to create the magic that is CFHT.