Home

Next Monthly Ottawa RASC meeting on Zoom - Friday 8 July 2022

Super Blood Flower Moon digital art by Natasha Blazevic

 

True of False:

That the 8 July Major Occultation in 937AD (Arabic: ٱلْغَيْبَة ٱلْكُبْرَىٰ, al-Ghaybah al-Kubrā) was of the star Hujjat-Allah al-Mahdi, the second occultation after the Minor Occultation.

One way to know for sure is to join us for the RASC Ottawa Centre Zoom-inar Friday 8 July 7:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada). I keep offering free beer at the end of these things but no-one has taken me up on it yet.

Anyone looking to look out from this Earth is welcome.
Pre-register for this Zoom webinar (unless you are presenting a talk or observation) at
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/5916544646152/WN_1XBTkss7SW-yzSbdl9cPhQ

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

NOTE:  If you are presenting an observation you then will be sent a unique link (from Chris Teron) to join as a panelist and do not need to register.

Our very serious science-oriented agenda could include

  • Mick Wilson – Introduction and disputing the very existence of the northern hemisphere
  • Dave Chisholm - Ottawa Skies for July
  • TBC - Allan Jones on Astronomy and the establishing the Canadian border; if you're unlucky it'll be Mick Wilson rabbiting on about some southern hemisphere thing.
  • Simon Hanmer - Solar System Science in 2022
  • BioBreak and bio-degradable Astro-trivia
  • Observation Reports - mostly harmless, and safe for children
  • Monthly Observing Challenges
  • Announcements and Free Beer (and, yes, that was a joke from the last five months, and counting, but nobody other than Rick Wagner got it)

Door prizes this month are free Tribbles to good homes.

AstroNotes 2022 June Vol: 61 issue 06

Download PDF version: 

PDF icon 2022-06 AstroNotes.pdf

Volume: 

61

Issue: 

06

Pages: 

71

Meeting Video 2022 - June

Venue of Event: 

Zoom
Submitted 3 weeks 6 days ago by Mickwilson20@ho....
Read more

Presentation(s): 

Observation Reports 2022-06
Nature v Nurture - Building Galaxies in Cluster Environments - Nathalie Ouellette (2022 June)
The Cassini Family and the establishment of modern France - Bob Olson (2022 June)
Astrophotography of the Milky Way on a Tripod - Andrea Girones (2022 June)

Regular items:

Chair's Welcome - Mick Wilson
Ottawa Skies - Mick Wilson
Observation reports
Monthly Observing Challenges
Announcements

 

Observation Reports 2022-06

Watch this presentation: 

https://youtu.be/Y1W9YGLI21g?t=6519

Thanks to our observers: 

Jim Sofia
Natasha Blazevic
Andrea Girones
Oscar Echeverri
Gordon Dewis
Richard Taylor
Taras Rabarskyi
Bob Olson
Paul Klauninger

PDF to download or print: 

PDF icon ObservationReports-2022-06.pdf

Observing Challenges for June

Submitted by oscar@echeverri.ca on

Year Beginner Intermediate Advanced Lunar
2022

Messier 107
Globular cluster in Ophiucus
7.9 apparent magnitude
10’ in size

Arp 272
A trio of interacting galaxies in Hercules
15th to 17th magnitude apparent brightness
0.9’ x 0.7’ apparent size

NGC 6692
A pair of interacting galaxies in Lyra
11th magnitude in brightness
1’ x 0.5’ apparent size

Mons Pico
A solitary mountain lying in the northern part of Mare Imbrium
2500m high
25km x 15km in size

Pages