Stellarium intermediate course (ONLINE)

Monday 21 March 2022

7:30 PM to 9:30 PM Mountain time

Stellarium is a powerful planetarium application available for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux computers. 

Participants will learn how to load additional catalogues, customise the application including setting up specific locations, check Jupiter's Great Red Spot position, load new comets, modify the toolbar, choose landscape textures, use stepping zooming, copy object information, configure eyepiece and camera views, and slew a telescope mount to a target. This will provide an amateur astronomer a deeper understanding of the Stellarium program.

FOR MEMBERS ONLY.

Class sizes are limited. A waiting list is maintained for when courses are full.

https://rasc.ca/stellarium-level-2

Part of the Stellarium Training Series.

https://rasc.ca/stellarium-training

Who can attend: active RASC members
Fee: Free
Registration: Required
Organized by: RASC national office

Stellarium intermediate course (ONLINE)

Thursday 24 March 2022

7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Eastern time

Stellarium is a powerful planetarium application available for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux computers. 

Participants will learn how to load additional catalogues, customise the application including setting up specific locations, check Jupiter's Great Red Spot position, load new comets, modify the toolbar, choose landscape textures, use stepping zooming, copy object information, configure eyepiece and camera views, and slew a telescope mount to a target. This will provide an amateur astronomer a deeper understanding of the Stellarium program.

FOR MEMBERS ONLY.

Class sizes are limited. A waiting list is maintained for when courses are full.

https://rasc.ca/stellarium-level-2

Part of the Stellarium Training Series.

https://rasc.ca/stellarium-training

Who can attend: active RASC members
Fee: Free
Registration: Required
Organized by: RASC national office

Exploring a new world on the Edge of the Solar System: New Horizons and Arrokoth.

Speaker: Dr JJ Kavelaars, University of Victoria 

RASC Mississauga

On January 1st, 2019 NASA's New Horizons spacecraft executed a flawless encounter of the small world now known as Arrokoth.  Our understanding of the nature of the outer solar system and processes of planet formation have been transformed by the very first resolved images of this building block of planets.  The imaging and spectroscopy from Arrokoth have enabled a new understanding of planetesimals and their formation.  I will describe the processes that enable this historic encounter to occur and the science results from the spacecraft imaging. 

BIOGRAPHY: Born in London Ontario Canada, Dr JJ Kavelaars is a Principle Research Officer at the National Research Council of Canada’s Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Centre where he has worked since 2002 and has been the Head of the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre since 2019.  Dr. Kavelaars searches the sky for outer solar system objects and has discovered dozens of satellites of the giant planets and over 1000 minor planets in the distant solar system.  He is a co-lead of the Canada-France Ecliptic Plan Survey and the Outer Solar System Origin Survey and co-Investigate on NASA New Horizons Kuiper Extended Mission.  Dr. Kavelaars has served on numerous national and international science committees, organized science conferences and contributed chapters to review books.  He has co-authored over 100 peer reviewed science articles and his research has been cited by his peers over 4000 times. 

This talk will take place Friday, March 25th 2022 @ 7:30 pm EST. 

Join via Zoom Here!