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Episode 11 Supplement

Crisium


Mare Crisium as sketched by Eva M. Brook on December 3rd, 1895 at Simcoe, Ontario. 12-inch reflector (image © RASC Archives)

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Episode 10 Supplement

Telescope

Equatorially mounted reflector with 8.5-inch primary mirror by RASC member John A. Brashear. This was donated to the Society by Weston Wetherbee, FRASC, in 1904. It was a considerable gift at the time. Its present whereabouts are unknown (unnumbered plate from The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Selected Papers and Proceedings 1904).

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Episode 9 Supplement

Diversity and inclusivity are issues of the present as well as of the past for a scientific organization like the RASC; the topics of gender, cultural origins, and "race" are nothing new.* No Society which extends an open invitation to all to join its ranks, and purposes to make positive astronomical contributions to the local, regional, national, and international communities of which it is a part, can afford to ignore questions of who is in, and who is out, which cultures are represented, and which ignored, which matter, and which don't.

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Episode 8 Supplement

Bonaventure A 17th-century monastic advocate of female particiupation in the learned world (Dom Bonaventure also had an interest in astronomy; image © by R.A. Rosenfeld)


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JRASC December 2019

Feature Articles / Articles de fond

  • Thomas Lindsay, Toronto Astronomical Society Member—A Remarkable Life
    by Clark Muir
  • The Osseo, Ontario, IAB Complex Iron Meteorite Revisited
    by Howard Plotkin and Gary Mckerracher
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Mercury Transit 2019

2019 Transit of Mercury

Date: November 11, 2019
Time: Morning and early afternoon
Location: Coast-to-coast

On November 11, 2019, Mercury will be passing between the Earth and the Sun. From our view here on Earth, that means we'll see a little black spot slowly crossing the disc of the Sun. However, because Mercury is so small, you won't be able to see it just with solar-filtered eclipse glasses.

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JRASC October 2019

Inside this issue:

  • Combining Two Hobbies
  • Andrew McKellar and the Temperature of Space
  • Bert Petrie, Ken Wright, and the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory
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Next Gen

Purpose

The Next Gen Committee’s purpose is to address the needs of current and future RASC youth members (meaning members between 13 and 25 years of age, inclusive) as they relate to programs and services of the Society. The committee serves to represent the unique viewpoints, values, and experiences of the Society’s youth members as they apply to their RASC membership, including a core dedication to upholding the ideals of respect, inclusivity, and diversity within the Society.

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Classroom Outreach

Robotic Telescope for Classrooms

https://rasc.ca/sites/default/files/WASP%2052b%20visualization.PNG

The Robotic Telescope for Classrooms program is now available at eduscope.rasc.ca. Head on over to find out more and apply!

 

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Levy Book 2019

Levy Autobiography Front Cover

Warping to the RASC store...

David Levy autobiography 2019:
https://secure.rasc.ca/ItemDetail?iProductCode=505

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