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. Water was once believed very scarce in our corner of the galaxy but we now realize this is not the case. From understanding where our […]
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 world of archaeoastronomy, just as it does in other fields. Archaeology uses the material record excavated from sites such as Cahokia and Stonehenge, information from […]
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 talk on YouTube Abstract: In mid-July 1993 I flew to London to start my new job as the astronomy editor of Nature. I spent almost […]
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 The Sky This Month Tom Otvos […]
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 own one with patience NOTE: This Meeting starts at 7:30 pm. Zoom information Topic: RASC Mississauga Centre Potpourri Meeting Time: Jan 15, 2021 07:30 PM […]
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 the crew of Apollo 14 to pull off a successful mission, following on the aborted Apollo 13 mission nine months earlier. Changes were made to […]
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 Angle Skip Impact by Comet 109P/Swift–Tuttle" Swapna Shrivastava: "A trip to the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope" Betty Robinson: "A Helicopter Lands on Mars" Dennis Gasparotto: "A Visit […]
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! Krishna Vedala: "Astronomy Logbook Software" Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85274743460?pwd=Nno5N01hbWZuVk9kMzRHa1dIYWMyUT09
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.
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
