RASC Victoria: Artemis Star Party

Event Date: 
Saturday, April 16, 2022 - 10:00pm to 11:45pm

Artemis Star Party: “The Artemis Missions and Canada’s future roles in Space”

RASC Victoria Centre and the Friends of the DAO

Date: Saturday, April 16th, 2022

Time: 7:00 to 9:00 pm Pacific Time

Guest Speaker:

      Randy Attwood

      RASC, Mississauga Centre

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RASC National & RASC Montreal: Sketching the Moon

Event Date: 
Thursday, April 14, 2022 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm

Sketching the Moon

Presented by Bettina Forget, Director of the SETI Institute’s Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program

RASC National & RASC Montreal

Thursday, April 14th, 2022 @ 6 pm - 7 pm EDT

Register in advance here: https://bit.ly/Craters2022

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RASC Montreal: TRAPPIST -1 Through the Eyes of JWST

Event Date: 
Saturday, April 9, 2022 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm

TRAPPIST - 1 Through the Eyes of JWST

Presented By Olivia Lim

RASC Montreal

The RASC Montreal Centre hosts PhD student Olivia Lim from iREx (the Institute for Research on Exoplanets) for this Free Astronomy Public Zoom Webinar on Saturday, Apr 9th at 7pm EDTRegister in advance: https://bit.ly/JWSTApr9

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RASC Toronto: Artemis Star Party

Event Date: 
Saturday, April 9, 2022 - 7:30pm to 8:30pm

Artemis Star Party - Canada is going to the Moon

RASC Toronto

Saturday, April 9, 2022 - 7:30pm to 8:30pm EDT

The Canadian Space Agency is joining NASA for a return to the Moon with the Artemis mission. Unfolding over the next several years, Artemis will eventually land a human on the Moon for the first time since the early 1970's and establish a presence and base there.

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RASC Ottawa: Monthly Meeting

Event Date: 
Friday, April 1, 2022 - 7:30pm to 9:30pm

Monthly Meeting

RASC Ottawa

Be aware that the premier on-line astronomical confab in the entire Ottawa valley will happen on Friday 1 April 07:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Anyone looking to look out from this Earth is welcome.

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April 2022 Journal

Inside this issue:

  • Apollo 11 Astronauts Visit Canada
  • Cloud Near the Horizon
Something new recently is live links between Table of Contents and an actual article. Even the titles on the front cover are live. And, the end of an article is a live link to the Tables of Contents.
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Asteroid (273230) de Bruyn

John Roy de Bruyn (b. 1958) is a Canadian physicist working on experimental condensed-matter physics, with emphasis on soft materials, the physics of biological systems, and the dynamics of systems driven out of equilibrium. He is a faculty member at Western University in London, Ontario

Orbit type: Main Belt

Reference: MPC 85018

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Asteroid (277883) Basu

Shantanu Basu (b. 1964) is an American astrophysicist on the faculty of Western University in London, Ontario. He has performed numerical studies of star formation that have elucidated the effect of magnetic fields on cloud core and disk formation, and he was one of the originators of the Migrating Embryo model of circumstellar disk evolution.

Orbit type: Main Belt

Reference: MPC 85018

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Barber-Explore the Moon-Tel

3. Explore the Moon—Tel    Brian    Barber    Victoria        2022    22 Mar 2022
 

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Rudolph Dorner (1948-2022)

In March of this year, Rudolph Dorner, the founder of the Dorner Telescope Museum (DTM), passed away. It was Rudolph’s generosity of spirit, generosity of conception, and generosity of pocket which is bringing forth the museum. He had a long-standing fascination with the optical devices which reveal something of the universe to us, and that interest was far from an armchair one. He also had great respect for the combination of ingenious minds, discriminating eyes, and skilled hands which crafted those instruments.

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