Potpourri Meeting
Zoom meetingPotpourri Meeting – several short talks by members.
Talks on Observing Mars, the recent Lunar Eclipse, some telescope reviews and adventures in nightscaping
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Speaker Night – Mission to Pluto: From Napkins to New Horizons
ZoomSpeaker: Max King
Talk title: Space Exploration and Spacecraft Design
Potpourri Night
Room DV 1142 William Davis BuildingPotpourri Meeting – talks on Gravity and Halley's Comet, Remembering Terence Dickinson and choosing a first telescope.
Mississauga Centre Annual General Meeting
Room DV 1142 William Davis Building
Speaker presentation - An Antarctic Adventure 8:00 pm
Annual General Meeting 9:00 pm
Potpourri Meeting
Room DV 1142 William Davis Building Potpourri Meeting – various talks by members
NOTE: THIS MEETING WILL BE ZOOM ONLY DUE TO WEATHER
Host: Allan Connery
Presentations
Dr. Lea Hirsch: "The most distant galaxies ever discovered?" A discussion about the high-redshift galaxies newly discovered by JWST
Kirby Alguire: “Astronomy Travelogue: Lick Observatory in California" … and some shots of the recent Jupiter-Venus conjunction.
Randy Attwood: "Chasing Solar Eclipses"
Dr. Robin Metcalfe: Book Recommendation for Historical Sci-Fi Fans: Galileo’s Dream, by Kim Stanley Robinson
Jake Benbihy: “Capturing Sunrises and Sunsets“ Photographing sunsets and sunrises with polarizers and filters.
Speaker Night – Mapping the dark side of the Universe
Room DV 1142 William Davis Building 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.
Potpourri Meeting
Room DV 1142 William Davis BuildingPotpourri Meeting – various talks by members. More to come.
Riverwood Star Party
Riverwood Park, Mississauga 4300 Riverwood Park Lane, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada Public Star Party at The Riverwood Conservancy
Be sure to register at https://theriverwoodconservancy.org/event/astronomy-night/
$5
Gaia Mission & Binary Star HD 165401
Room DV 1142 William Davis BuildingSpeaker night: Gaia Mission & Analysis of the Binary Star HD 165401
Potpourri Meeting
DV2082 William Davis Building UTM 3359 Mississauga Rd, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Potpourri Meeting
Talks on the NEAF conference,Spring Galaxies, An Antique Telescope and more!
Speaker Night – Ryan Cloutier
DV2082 William Davis Building UTM 3359 Mississauga Rd, Mississauga, Ontario, CanadaAlthough 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.
Riverwood Public Star Party
Riverwood Park, Mississauga 4300 Riverwood Park Lane, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada Public Star Party at The Riverwood Conservancy
May 30 (Weather backup date May 31)