BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada – Mississauga Centre - ECPv6.15.11//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada – Mississauga Centre X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://rasc.optunia.me X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada – Mississauga Centre REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240308T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240308T220000 DTSTAMP:20260419T163856 CREATED:20240207T193800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240304T160743Z UID:3417-1709928000-1709935200@rasc.optunia.me SUMMARY:Potpourri Meeting DESCRIPTION:Potpourri Meeting – various talks by members\n\nGetting Ready For the Solar Eclipse – Randy Attwood – This talk will review a few things we can do to get ready for a solar eclipse.  This is a talk mainly directed at those who will be seeing their first total solar eclipse.\nA Book review: The Origin of Time\, Stephen Hawkings Final Theory by Thomas Hertog – Reviewed by David Maynard\nSolar filters – Allan\n2017 eclipse journey – Shakeel Anwar\nInteractive component – Centre’s Solar scope demo – Shakeel Anwar\nIntro to Astrophotography course– Dennis Gasparotto URL:https://rasc.optunia.me/event/potpourri-meeting-24/ LOCATION:DV2072 William Davis Building UTM CATEGORIES:Potpourri Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rasc.optunia.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/MRASC-COLOUR-250.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240223T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240223T220000 DTSTAMP:20260419T163856 CREATED:20240207T191335Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T211449Z UID:3410-1708718400-1708725600@rasc.optunia.me SUMMARY:Speaker Night / Annual General Meeting DESCRIPTION:A short presentation followed by the Centre’s 2023 Annual General Meeting \nSpeaker : Randy Attwood\, President\, Mississauga Centre \nTopic: Some recent solar eclipses. \nWith the April 8 solar eclipse fast approaching\, the speaker will look back at some past solar eclipse many RASC members have witnessed. \nAnnual General Meeting – Members can download the Agenda\, Financial information\, 2022 AGM minutes\, 2024 Council Slate and Secretary’s Report here:  MRASC AGM 2023 Meeting  (Members only – password required) \nZoom info\nMeeting Link \nMeeting ID:  889 0586 7458 URL:https://rasc.optunia.me/event/speaker-night-annual-general-meeting/ LOCATION:DV2072 William Davis Building UTM CATEGORIES:Speaker Night ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rasc.optunia.me/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/230623142359-05-solar-eclipse-2017-file-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240209T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240209T220000 DTSTAMP:20260419T163856 CREATED:20240112T162913Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240205T181001Z UID:3391-1707508800-1707516000@rasc.optunia.me SUMMARY:Potpourri Meeting DESCRIPTION:Dr Chris Malicki  “Observing the flash spectrum at a solar eclipse”    \nRon Macnaughton     “How Ancients Predicted Eclipses”. It describes patterns observed by Babylonians and Greeks\, with comments on modern techniques. \nMatteo Statti   I have put together a presentation about the Antique Telescope Society Convention I attended in Italy in October. \nJohn Marchese   An update on the Centre’s Solar Eclipse Group’s plans to drive to the US to see the eclipse URL:https://rasc.optunia.me/event/potpourri-meeting-23/ LOCATION:DV2072 William Davis Building UTM CATEGORIES:Potpourri Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rasc.optunia.me/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/230623142359-05-solar-eclipse-2017-file-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240126T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240126T220000 DTSTAMP:20260419T163856 CREATED:20231013T132411Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240122T233625Z UID:3107-1706299200-1706306400@rasc.optunia.me SUMMARY:The Search for Life on Mars: NASA's Perseverance Rover Mission DESCRIPTION:The Search for Life on Mars: NASA’s Perseverance Rover Mission\nThe talk will provide an overview of the goals of the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission\, progress thus far\, and plans for returning samples from Mars. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Short Biography of Chris Herd \nChristopher (Chris) Herd has had the dream of studying rocks from Mars since the age of 13. After an undergraduate degree in Geological Sciences from Queen’s University in Kingston\, Canada\, he studied meteorites from Mars for his PhD at the University of New Mexico\, and then worked at the NASA Johnson Space Center. Since 2003 he has been a professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Alberta. His research includes studies of meteorites of a variety of types\, as well as ways of curating meteorites and future returned samples under cold and clean conditions. He is the curator of the University of Alberta Meteorite Collection—the largest university-based meteorite collection in Canada\, and home to the world’s only meteorite curation facility that operates at cold temperatures. He is a Returned Sample Science participating scientist in the Perseverance rover mission.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n This is an in-person meeting at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Dr. Herd will be joining us via ZOOM. URL:https://rasc.optunia.me/event/the-search-for-life-on-mars-nasas-perseverance-rover-mission/ LOCATION:DV2072 William Davis Building UTM CATEGORIES:Speaker Night ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rasc.optunia.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/search_for_live_mars.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240112T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240112T220000 DTSTAMP:20260419T163856 CREATED:20240106T215706Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240112T154820Z UID:3339-1705089600-1705096800@rasc.optunia.me SUMMARY:Potpourri Meeting DESCRIPTION:Meeting cancelled due to inclement weather. URL:https://rasc.optunia.me/event/potpourri-meeting-22/ LOCATION:UTM Davis (DV) 3140 CATEGORIES:Potpourri Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rasc.optunia.me/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/230623142359-05-solar-eclipse-2017-file-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231208T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231208T220000 DTSTAMP:20260419T163856 CREATED:20230812T153411Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231206T214451Z UID:3021-1702065600-1702072800@rasc.optunia.me SUMMARY:Potpourri Meeting Friday December 8 DESCRIPTION:Potpourri Meeting – various talks by members\n Talk information to come\n Location information to come \n ZOOM link to come   URL:https://rasc.optunia.me/event/potpourri-meeting-friday-december-8/ CATEGORIES:Potpourri Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rasc.optunia.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/MASLOGOOVAL-RASC.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231204T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231204T193000 DTSTAMP:20260419T163856 CREATED:20231102T150333Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231102T151746Z UID:3146-1701718200-1701718200@rasc.optunia.me SUMMARY:New Members' Night DESCRIPTION:Great news! Please mark your calendars: The next RASC Mississauga New Members’ meeting is scheduled for Monday\, 4 Dec at 7:30 pm-8:30 pm over Zoom. \nWe are excited to share information about: \n\nThe Centre\nCentre Observing activities (Kirby)\nRASC publications (Betty)\n\nWhile this meeting is geared towards the Centre’s New Members\, everyone is welcome to attend! \nLogistics:\nThis will be a zoom meeting. \nJoin Zoom Meeting \nMeeting ID: 833 0601 9806 \n  \n  URL:https://rasc.optunia.me/event/new-members-night/ CATEGORIES:New Members' Night END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231124T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231124T220000 DTSTAMP:20260419T163856 CREATED:20231026T183052Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231111T220157Z UID:3125-1700856000-1700863200@rasc.optunia.me SUMMARY:Speaker Night - Dr. Matthew J.O Svensson / The Artemis Program and the 2023 Expedition to Kamestastin Lake\, Labrador DESCRIPTION:Talk Synopsis\nSince astronauts first explored the Moon during NASA’s Apollo program\, space exploration has been solidified as a crowned jewel of national achievement\, a symbol of technological advancement and international cooperation. NASA’s Artemis program was established in 2017 and its inaugural flight\, Artemis I\, performed an uncrewed flyby of the Moon in 2022.  With the planned launches of Artemis II and III in 2024 and 2025\, respectively\, the return of humans to the Moon is forthcoming. Artemis II will fly the first woman and the first Canadian to the Moon\, performing a flyby and returning to Earth. Subsequently\, Artemis III is planned to facilitate the first landing of humans on the lunar surface since Apollo 17 in 1972. In preparation of this endeavor\, a multinational and interdisciplinary team of astronauts\, scientists and engineers visited the Kamestastin (Mistastin) Lake impact structure in Labrador\, Canada\, in early September 2023. The rocks at Kamestastin Lake are mainly anorthosite\, a relatively rare rock-type on Earth\, but a rock-type that comprises most of the Moon. Additionally\, by virtue of also being an impact structure\, Kamestastin Lake is an ideal training ground for lunar exploration. Guided by members of the Innu Nation\, the team explored key sites at this impact structure\, trialing lessons and exercises with astronauts in the field. Here\, we provide an exposition of this journey\, an important step in the historic return of humans to the Moon. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bio: Dr. Matthew Svensson is a planetary scientist with a passion for exploring the origins of life and the resources of the solar system beyond Earth. Matthew’s fundamental training is in geology\, focused on the impact cratering process and the nature of the rocks and minerals that it creates on the Earth\, the moon\, and Mars. He studies how diverse environments created in the aftermath of impact events\, such as crater lakes and hydrothermal systems\, can be suitable for microbial life and explores the many possible roles of clay minerals in this process. Matthew also contributes to refining workflow strategies for astronaut-based geological surveys of the lunar surface and for rover operations on the moon and Mars. Contributing a perspective grounded in geology\, Matthew endeavors to advance our understanding of life and to push the frontier of crewed solar system exploration. URL:https://rasc.optunia.me/event/speaker-night-dr-matthew-j-o-svensson-the-artemis-program-and-the-2023-expedition-to-kamestastin-lake-labrador/ LOCATION:DV2082 William Davis Building UTM\, 3359 Mississauga Rd\, Mississauga\, Ontario\, L5L 1C6\, Canada CATEGORIES:Speaker Night ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rasc.optunia.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/mistastin_impact_crater_Charles_O_Dale.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231110T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231110T220000 DTSTAMP:20260419T163856 CREATED:20230812T152857Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231107T160924Z UID:3019-1699646400-1699653600@rasc.optunia.me SUMMARY:Potpourri Meeting Friday November 10 DESCRIPTION:Potpourri Meeting – various talks by members\nRobin Metcalfe – The Astronomer in Residence (AIR) program at Killarney Provincial Park\, an outreach program jointly created and administered by Ontario Parks and the Allen I. Carswell Observatory at York University. I will describe the program and the criteria for applying and share some tales from my recent  AIR gig.\nSwapna Shrivastava  – A visit to European Space Agency (ESA)- ESTEC\, Netherlands\nRon Macnaughton  – “A low tech way to observe the partial solar eclipse”  /   “Finding aliens means studying new sorts of planets”.\nAnnular Eclipse  October 14\nChris Malicki   The annular eclipse from Utah and New Mexico\nKirby Alguire    The annular eclipse as seen from Kerrville\, TX URL:https://rasc.optunia.me/event/potpourri-meeting-friday-november-10/ LOCATION:DV2082 William Davis Building UTM\, 3359 Mississauga Rd\, Mississauga\, Ontario\, L5L 1C6\, Canada CATEGORIES:Potpourri Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rasc.optunia.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Eclipse_smaller.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231027T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231027T220000 DTSTAMP:20260419T163856 CREATED:20230810T175905Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230810T180548Z UID:3001-1698436800-1698444000@rasc.optunia.me SUMMARY:Speaker Night - Dr. J. Luna Zagorac DESCRIPTION:What we can’t see in the Universe (and why it might be fuzzy)\nSynopsis: Most people look up at the night sky to admire its host of shiny\, glittering objects; and yet\, it’s really the stuff we don’t see that’s shaping our cosmos. Tune in to hear about how so-called dark matter is instrumental in building galaxies and why some scientists think it might be fuzzy. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bio: Luna Zagorac is a postdoctoral researcher at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo\, ON. Luna received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 2022\, where her dissertation focused on computer simulations and observational signatures of ultralight (or fuzzy) dark matter. When not thinking about the things we can’t see in the Universe\, Luna works on mapping Ancient Egyptian diagonal star tables to observational astronomical data. Apart from research she enjoys science communication and writing for astrobites.org\, playing video games\, and roller skating. URL:https://rasc.optunia.me/event/speaker-night-dr-j-luna-zagorac/ LOCATION:DV2082 William Davis Building UTM\, 3359 Mississauga Rd\, Mississauga\, Ontario\, L5L 1C6\, Canada CATEGORIES:Speaker Night ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rasc.optunia.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/black-hole-space-cosmos.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231024T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231024T220000 DTSTAMP:20260419T163856 CREATED:20231022T232505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231022T232645Z UID:3118-1698175800-1698184800@rasc.optunia.me SUMMARY:Riverwood Star Party - October 24th DESCRIPTION:Public Star Party at The Riverwood Conservancy\nPlease register on the Riverwood website:  https://theriverwoodconservancy.org/event/astronomy-night-5/ URL:https://rasc.optunia.me/event/riverwood-star-party-october-24th/ LOCATION:Riverwood Park\, Mississauga\, 4300 Riverwood Park Lane\, Mississauga\, Ontario\, L5C 2S7\, Canada CATEGORIES:Star Party ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rasc.optunia.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Riverwood-Aug-28.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231013T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231013T220000 DTSTAMP:20260419T163856 CREATED:20230812T151847Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231011T161204Z UID:3017-1697227200-1697234400@rasc.optunia.me SUMMARY:Potpourri Meeting Friday October 13 DESCRIPTION:Potpourri Meeting – various talks by members \nTalk information to come  \nLocation information to come \n ZOOM link to come   URL:https://rasc.optunia.me/event/potpourri-meeting-friday-october-13/ CATEGORIES:Potpourri Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rasc.optunia.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/MASLOGOOVAL-RASC.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230926T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230926T220000 DTSTAMP:20260419T163856 CREATED:20230812T161248Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230824T185350Z UID:3023-1695756600-1695765600@rasc.optunia.me SUMMARY:Riverwood Star Party September 26 DESCRIPTION:Public Star Party at The Riverwood Conservancy\nPlease register on the Riverwood website:  https://theriverwoodconservancy.org/event/astronomy-night-2/ URL:https://rasc.optunia.me/event/riverwood-star-party-september-26/ LOCATION:Riverwood Park\, Mississauga\, 4300 Riverwood Park Lane\, Mississauga\, Ontario\, L5C 2S7\, Canada CATEGORIES:Star Party ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rasc.optunia.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Riverwood-Aug-28.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230922T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230922T220000 DTSTAMP:20260419T163856 CREATED:20230521T140735Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230913T010915Z UID:2812-1695412800-1695420000@rasc.optunia.me SUMMARY:Speaker Night - Alfred Ng (CSA) DESCRIPTION:Understanding Lunar Gateway Orbit\nThe Lunar Gateway will be placed in Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO). This presentation will explain to the audience why this is a fascinating choice. The presenter will walk through the audience first in the basics of Keplerian orbits. He will introduce concepts of halo orbit\, Lagrangian points\, delta-V and station keeping. To make the presentation accessible to all\, no mathematical formulas will be used. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Short Biography of Alfred Ng \nAlfred Ng obtained his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in 1992. He joined the Canadian Space Agency as the Research Scientist the same year and he is currently Deputy Director in the Engineering & Capability Demonstration Directorate. He served for 6 years as the Chair of International Astronautical Federation Astrodynamics Committee. He is also a member of International Academy of Astronautics. Currently\, he is managing Stratospheric Balloon program and he is also the Technical Lead on Canadian CubeSat Project. He has authored and co-authored 14 journal publications and over 45 conference papers. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n This is an in-person meeting at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Dr. Ng will be joining us via ZOOM. URL:https://rasc.optunia.me/event/speaker-night-alfred-ng-csa/ LOCATION:DV2082 William Davis Building UTM\, 3359 Mississauga Rd\, Mississauga\, Ontario\, L5L 1C6\, Canada CATEGORIES:Speaker Night ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://rasc.optunia.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/lunar_gateway_orbit.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230908T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230908T220000 DTSTAMP:20260419T163856 CREATED:20230905T164322Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230905T164514Z UID:3077-1694203200-1694210400@rasc.optunia.me SUMMARY:Potpourri Meeting Friday Sept. 8 DESCRIPTION:Potpourri Meeting – various talks by members\nSpeaker: Swapna\nTitle: A visit to the European Space Agency-ESTEC in the Netherlands\nDescription:   Highlights of the ESA facility in the Netherlands \nSpeaker: Dana Adhis & Ruyi Xu\nTitle: Enhancing Astronomy Education with Digital Telescope Labs\nDescription:  Our project explores integrating the eVscope to create astronomy labs for students in order to improve their self-efficacy\, confidence in the material\, and learning outcomes which include comprehension\, communication and critical thinking. \nSpeaker: Joseph Tang\nTitle: The 3D Dust Temperature Map’s Correlation with 3D Stellar Luminosity Fields\nDescription: Using Gaia DR3 data\, the 3D stellar radiation field around star formation regions was calculated and correlated with a 3D temperature map of the Interstellar dust in the Milky Way.” \nThis meeting is in-person only at University of Toronto in room DV2082. URL:https://rasc.optunia.me/event/potpourri-meeting-friday-sept-8/ LOCATION:DV2082 William Davis Building UTM\, 3359 Mississauga Rd\, Mississauga\, Ontario\, L5L 1C6\, Canada CATEGORIES:Potpourri Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://rasc.optunia.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/polaris_double_star.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230907T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230907T210000 DTSTAMP:20260419T163856 CREATED:20230904T173212Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230904T173524Z UID:3071-1694115000-1694120400@rasc.optunia.me SUMMARY:2024 Solar Eclipse Meeting DESCRIPTION:If interested\, join us at 7:30pm to discuss travelling to the United States to observe the 2024 solar eclipse: \nClick here to join Zoom \nMeeting ID: 891 2452 0346\nPasscode: 328935 URL:https://rasc.optunia.me/event/2024-solar-eclipse-meeting/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:General Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://rasc.optunia.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/2024_eclipse_path.png ORGANIZER;CN="John Marchese":MAILTO:mbr@mississauga.rasc.ca END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230825T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230825T213000 DTSTAMP:20260419T163856 CREATED:20230809T202534Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230824T185239Z UID:2993-1692991800-1692999000@rasc.optunia.me SUMMARY:Potpourri Meeting Friday\, August 25 DESCRIPTION:Potpourri Meeting – various talks by members\nReports from Starfest\nRon Macnaughton – the Indian and Canadian Lunar Rover programs\nThis is a ZOOM only meeting – Link to Zoom meeting     URL:https://rasc.optunia.me/event/potpourri-meeting-friday-august-25/ LOCATION:Zoom meeting CATEGORIES:Potpourri Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rasc.optunia.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/india-Chandrayaan-3-moon-landing-48643.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230822T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230822T220000 DTSTAMP:20260419T163856 CREATED:20230810T142344Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230817T200924Z UID:2996-1692736200-1692741600@rasc.optunia.me SUMMARY:Riverwood Public Star Party DESCRIPTION:Public Star Party at The Riverwood Conservancy\nPlease register on the Riverwood website:  https://theriverwoodconservancy.org/event/astronomy-night-4/ \nTuesday August 22\, 2023 (Weather backup date August 23)  8:30 – 10:00 pm URL:https://rasc.optunia.me/event/riverwood-public-star-party-5/ LOCATION:Riverwood Park\, Mississauga\, 4300 Riverwood Park Lane\, Mississauga\, Ontario\, L5C 2S7\, Canada CATEGORIES:Star Party ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rasc.optunia.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Riverwood-Aug-28.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230725T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230725T223000 DTSTAMP:20260419T163856 CREATED:20230626T182713Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230626T183130Z UID:2963-1690318800-1690324200@rasc.optunia.me SUMMARY:Riverwood Public Star Party DESCRIPTION:Public Star Party at The Riverwood Conservancy\nPlease register on the Riverwood website:  https://theriverwoodconservancy.org/event/astronomy-night/ \nTuesday July 25\, 2023 (Weather backup date July 26) URL:https://rasc.optunia.me/event/riverwood-public-star-party-3/ LOCATION:Riverwood Park\, Mississauga\, 4300 Riverwood Park Lane\, Mississauga\, Ontario\, L5C 2S7\, Canada CATEGORIES:Star Party ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rasc.optunia.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Riverwood-Aug-28.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230721T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230721T210000 DTSTAMP:20260419T163856 CREATED:20230718T173727Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230719T142647Z UID:2981-1689967800-1689973200@rasc.optunia.me SUMMARY:Potpourri Meeting - Starfest Preview and more! DESCRIPTION:Potpourri Meeting – various talks by members  (note 7:30 pm start time) \nJohn Boyd – Amateur Radio Astronomy – A Quick Look       This talk briefly explores the opportunities and challenges of amateur radio astronomy in 15 minutes. Advances in electronics make it possible to carry out experiments with a  modest investment  today.  Is anyone else in the club interested ? \nRick Veregin –    Imaging Two Galaxies and One Supernova  I will share my imaging setup and protocol and my recent images of M101 (The Pinwheel Galaxy) with SN2023ixf \,as well as M51 (The Whirlpool Galaxy). \nJohn Marchese & Leslie Strike – Starfest 2023 Preview. \nStarfest 2023 will be on Aug 17-20. This talk is for anyone who’s planning to go\, thinking about it or just curious. If you’ve never been to this or any other star party\, we’ll tell you what it’s about and how you can share the experience with the many Mississauga Centre members who attend. Starfest2023 Registration \nJoin Zoom meeting URL:https://rasc.optunia.me/event/potpourri-meeting-starfest-preview-and-more/ LOCATION:Zoom meeting CATEGORIES:Potpourri Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rasc.optunia.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/100-worlds_spotlight-radio_feat_vla.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230628T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230628T223000 DTSTAMP:20260419T163856 CREATED:20230627T140212Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230628T155134Z UID:2968-1687986000-1687991400@rasc.optunia.me SUMMARY:Riverwood Public Star Party DESCRIPTION:Public Star Party at The Riverwood Conservancy \nPlease register on the Riverwood website:  https://theriverwoodconservancy.org/event/astronomy-night/ \nWednesday June 28 (weather permitting) URL:https://rasc.optunia.me/event/riverwood-public-star-party-4/ LOCATION:Riverwood Park\, Mississauga\, 4300 Riverwood Park Lane\, Mississauga\, Ontario\, L5C 2S7\, Canada CATEGORIES:Star Party ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rasc.optunia.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Riverwood-Aug-28.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230623T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230623T220000 DTSTAMP:20260419T163856 CREATED:20230508T002937Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230528T165123Z UID:2779-1687507200-1687557600@rasc.optunia.me SUMMARY:Speaker Night - The Mystery of Fast Radio Bursts DESCRIPTION:For over a decade enigmatic\, extragalactic flashes called fast radio bursts (FRBs) have defied a definitive explanation for their origin. Lasting a fraction of a second but releasing more energy than our sun does over several days\, these highly energetic events can be detected out to cosmological distances. Although surprisingly abundant\, occurring somewhere on the sky at least once every minute\, their detection is non-trivial and requires specialized radio telescopes with digital systems that are capable of sifting through terabytes of data on subsecond timescales. One of the premier instruments for detecting these events is the FRB survey operating on Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME/FRB). Detecting FRBs at an unparalleled rate of a few per day\, CHIME/FRB has accumulated thousands of FRB detections in only its first few years of operations. After a brief overview of the CHIME/FRB instrument\, I will summarize some of the key discoveries made from these observations. I will detail how such a large sample of detections has not only enabled a statistical study of the FRB population as whole but also provided a subsample of special events that are particularly informative for the nature of these mysterious sources.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bio: Dr. Ryan Mckinven completed his PhD at University of Toronto and is now a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University. He works within the CHIME/FRB collaboration on the detection and analysis of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs)\, specializing on the analysis of polarized signals of FRB sources and helping oversee the daily operations of the instrument. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n This meeting is being held on Zoom only. URL:https://rasc.optunia.me/event/speaker-night-the-mystery-of-fast-radio-bursts/ LOCATION:Zoom meeting CATEGORIES:Speaker Night ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rasc.optunia.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/feature_chime_cropped.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230530T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230530T223000 DTSTAMP:20260419T163856 CREATED:20230430T145705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230509T120256Z UID:2766-1685480400-1685485800@rasc.optunia.me SUMMARY:Riverwood Public Star Party DESCRIPTION:Public Star Party at The Riverwood Conservancy\nMay 30 (Weather backup date May 31) URL:https://rasc.optunia.me/event/public-star-party-at-the-riverwood-conservancy-6/ LOCATION:Riverwood Park\, Mississauga\, 4300 Riverwood Park Lane\, Mississauga\, Ontario\, L5C 2S7\, Canada CATEGORIES:Star Party ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rasc.optunia.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Riverwood-Aug-28.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230526T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230526T220000 DTSTAMP:20260419T163856 CREATED:20230328T185217Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230521T140127Z UID:2651-1685131200-1685138400@rasc.optunia.me SUMMARY:Speaker Night - Ryan Cloutier DESCRIPTION:Inhabitable Worlds:\nAlthough we are likely still decades away from discovering signs of life on worlds outside of our own solar system\, much progress is being made today to identify the best potential candidates for hosting such life. In this talk\, I will discuss much of what we currently know about these so-called exoplanets and how we know it. I will then highlight the steps that will be taken in the not-so-distant future to characterize the conditions on potentially habitable exoplanets using extreme telescopes. All of this in hopes that one day these efforts will culminate with the probable detection of life like our own elsewhere in the galaxy. \nAbout Dr. Ryan Colutier: \nDr. Cloutier is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at McMaster University in Hamilton. \nHis research focuses on the detection and characterization of the galaxy’s most common planets around its most common stars. These exoplanets have sizes between that of the Earth and Neptune and do not have an analog in our solar system that we can study up close. My interests are in using observational techniques to understand the compositions of these so-called super-Earths and sub-Neptunes\, to inform our understanding of how these planets form and whether their surface conditions may be hospitable for life. \nThis talk can be attended either in-person or online via Zoom – here is the link \n  URL:https://rasc.optunia.me/event/speaker-night-ryan-cloutier/ LOCATION:DV2082 William Davis Building UTM\, 3359 Mississauga Rd\, Mississauga\, Ontario\, L5L 1C6\, Canada CATEGORIES:Speaker Night ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rasc.optunia.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/planet_orbit_sketch.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230512T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230512T220000 DTSTAMP:20260419T163856 CREATED:20230430T144048Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230512T144352Z UID:2763-1683921600-1683928800@rasc.optunia.me SUMMARY:Potpourri Meeting DESCRIPTION:Potpourri Meeting \nHost: Randy Attwood\nChris Malicki – Some Favourite Spring Galaxies\nRon Macnaughton –   A failed attempt to get a star trails photo\nStephen Mallia  NEAF\, The Return!  Four years in the making. 4 years later\, NEAF returns and didn’t disappoint.  With vendors\, merchants\, talks from legends and more.  \nDavid Maynard – A Book Review – A Student’s Guide to the Mathematics of Astronomy  by Daniel Fleisch and Julia Kregenow\nMatteo Statti   “The Mystery of the Marsh Telescope”  “This presentation is about how I found an antique telescope and the journey of finding it’s maker.”\nZOOM link to join the meeting  URL:https://rasc.optunia.me/event/potpourri-meeting-21/ LOCATION:DV2082 William Davis Building UTM\, 3359 Mississauga Rd\, Mississauga\, Ontario\, L5L 1C6\, Canada CATEGORIES:Potpourri Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rasc.optunia.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Matteo-Scope.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230428T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230428T220000 DTSTAMP:20260419T163856 CREATED:20230415T203700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230419T014759Z UID:2693-1682712000-1682719200@rasc.optunia.me SUMMARY:Gaia Mission & Binary Star HD 165401 DESCRIPTION:Join Us for Two Presentations by University of Toronto Students.\n  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The Gaia Space Mission\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presented by: Ing Xhu Lim \nThe Gaia Space mission was a mission launched by the European Space Agency in 2013 to collect astronomical data on the stars in our milky way. The spacecraft aims to measure stars and planets and build the largest (to date) 3D catalog. It used 3 important sensors; Astro\, BP/RP\, and RVS\, which allowed us to gather data on a star’s position\, brightness\, and motion. The Gaia mission collected astronomical data on over 1 billion stars within its range such as their position as well as their estimated temperature and rotation period. The data provided by Gaia can then be used to create accurate stellar maps of our local neighborhood. Gaia’s data is open for the public to use\, taking such data we’re able to determine in bulk the location of stars through parallax right ascension and declination. As for the star’s color\, we can make a good estimate of its color through the black body spectrum caused by the star’s temperature. A blackbody spectrum is a spectrum of the wavelengths of radiation\, by taking the ones that are in the visible light range we can create a good estimate of what the star would look like if we could see it for ourselves. Through a code in Python\, we can feed a bulk amount of data generated by Gaia to create a 3D map for any chunk of data that we want to analyze. \n  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ing Xhu Lim is an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto. He is currently taking Astronomical Science and Physics. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Analysis of the Binary Star HD 165401\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Presented by: Ziyyad Ali & Tabassom Madayen \nWe present an analysis of a binary star HD 165401. The sunlike star was thought to be an old Population II star with an age of at least 10 Gyrs due to its kinematics\, however\, it has indicators of youth leading Astronomers to believe the star is a Blue Straggler – a star that has gained mass from a close by companion. This would cause HD 165401 to appear bluer and have a higher magnetic activity compared to a typical Population II star. By visually observing the star using the Keck II telescope\, along with a 17 yearlong Radial Velocity (RV) dataset\, we discovered a faint companion HD 165401 Ab. Analyzing this data\, we identified HD 165401 Ab as a whitedwarf with a mass of M = and a cooling age of = 3 Gyrs. This means that it has been only 3 Gyrs since HD 165401 has become a white dwarf and was likely a 5-solar mass star before leaving the main sequence. HD 165401 A would have been smaller in comparison to its current state and gained mass during the planetary nebula phase of HD 165401 Ab\, effectively prolonging its main sequence lifetime. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tabassom Madayen is a fourth-year undergraduate student at the University of Toronto Mississauga doing Astronomical specialist. \nFor the past year she has been doing research with Dr Lea Hirsch on discovery and characterization of two nearby binary systems.  With previous experience working on contact binary star systems\, her current field of study is stellar astronomy which contains discovery and classification of stars in binary systems. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ziyyad Ali is a fourth-year undergraduate student at the University of Toronto Mississauga doing an Astronomy major\, Physics\, and a Computer Science minor. \nFor the past year he has been doing research with Dr Lea Hirsch on the discovery and characterization of two nearby binary systems. He has previous experience working with Neural Networks and Machine Learning.  His current field of study is using Machine Learning methods in astronomy. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us in-person at the University of Toronto – Mississauga or via Zoom: \nZOOM LINK URL:https://rasc.optunia.me/event/university-of-mississauga-student-presentation/ LOCATION:Room DV 1142 William Davis Building CATEGORIES:Speaker Night ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rasc.optunia.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/student_presentation_thumb.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230427T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230427T220000 DTSTAMP:20260419T163856 CREATED:20221011T150544Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230317T151906Z UID:2451-1682627400-1682632800@rasc.optunia.me SUMMARY:Riverwood Star Party DESCRIPTION:Public Star Party at The Riverwood Conservancy URL:https://rasc.optunia.me/event/riverwood-star-party-3/ LOCATION:Riverwood Park\, Mississauga\, 4300 Riverwood Park Lane\, Mississauga\, Ontario\, L5C 2S7\, Canada CATEGORIES:Star Party ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rasc.optunia.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Riverwood-Aug-28.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230414T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230414T220000 DTSTAMP:20260419T163856 CREATED:20230404T012415Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230412T022013Z UID:2686-1681502400-1681509600@rasc.optunia.me SUMMARY:Potpourri Meeting DESCRIPTION:Potpourri Meeting – various talks by members \nTalk information to come \nZOOM link to come URL:https://rasc.optunia.me/event/potpourri-meeting-20/ LOCATION:Room DV 1142 William Davis Building CATEGORIES:Potpourri Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rasc.optunia.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/MASLOGOOVAL-RASC.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230324T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230324T220000 DTSTAMP:20260419T163856 CREATED:20221130T021119Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230324T152015Z UID:2485-1679688000-1679695200@rasc.optunia.me SUMMARY:Speaker Night - Mapping the dark side of the Universe DESCRIPTION:Jessie’s talk will fill us in on the latest exploration into Dark Matter and the work of the Dark Energy Survey. \nSynopsis: Decades of observations and analyses have led to the realization that ninety-five percent of the mass and energy in the Universe is made up of mysterious components known as dark matter and dark energy. The underlying physics behind these dark components is unknown\, but we can constrain their properties by observing how they affect visible matter\, searching for clues for how to develop more fundamental descriptions of this “dark side” of the Universe. This talk will give an overview of how we can use measurements from galaxy surveys\, which map the distribution of matter in the Universe\, to learn about dark energy\, dark matter\, and gravity and will describe the current state-of-the-art results from an ongoing experiment called the Dark Energy Survey. \nBio: Jessie Muir is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo\, Ontario. Originally from Romeo\, Michigan\, a suburb of Detroit\, Jessie completed her undergraduate studies at Michigan State University\, masters work at the University of Cambridge as a Marshall Scholar\, and her PhD at the University of Michigan. She has previously done postdoctoral research as a Porat Fellow at Stanford University. Jessie works on research at the intersection of cosmology theory and data analysis with the goal of using measurements of the large-scale properties of the Universe to learn about fundamental physics. As part of the Dark Energy Survey scientific collaboration\, Jessie recently co-led the experiment’s analysis of galaxy clustering and weak gravitational lensing to test for physics beyond the standard cosmological model\, and has contributed to the development of strategies for protecting cosmology analyses from unconscious experimenter bias. \nJoin us on online using ZOOM: CLICK TO JOIN\nCampus Map (click to download)\nPark in lot P4 or P8.  Enter Building C10 (Recreation\, Athletics & Wellness Centre). Walk past the stairs to the elevator / staircase at the end of the hall.  Walk up one floor or take the elevator. You should see a bookstore.  Walk through the doors marked Print shop. At the Print Shop turn right and look for room 1142 on your right. URL:https://rasc.optunia.me/event/speaker-night-mapping-the-dark-side-of-the-universe/ LOCATION:Room DV 1142 William Davis Building CATEGORIES:Speaker Night ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://rasc.optunia.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/dark_energy_survey.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230310T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230310T220000 DTSTAMP:20260419T163856 CREATED:20230307T174803Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230310T204212Z UID:2566-1678478400-1678485600@rasc.optunia.me SUMMARY:Potpourri Meeting DESCRIPTION:Potpourri Meeting – various talks by members\nHost: Allan Connery \nNOTE: THIS MEETING WILL BE ZOOM ONLY DUE TO WEATHER\nPresentations \nDr. Lea Hirsch: “The most distant galaxies ever discovered?” A discussion about the high-redshift galaxies newly discovered by JWST \nKirby Alguire: “Astronomy Travelogue:  Lick Observatory in California” … and some shots of the recent Jupiter-Venus conjunction. \nRandy Attwood: “Chasing Solar Eclipses” \nDr. Robin Metcalfe: Book Recommendation for Historical Sci-Fi Fans: Galileo’s Dream\, by Kim Stanley Robinson \nJake Benbihy: “Capturing Sunrises and Sunsets“  Photographing sunsets and sunrises with polarizers and filters. \n  \nZOOM link – click here to join URL:https://rasc.optunia.me/event/potpourri-meeting-19/ LOCATION:Room DV 1142 William Davis Building CATEGORIES:Potpourri Meeting ORGANIZER;CN="Allan Connery":MAILTO:memmtg@mississauga.rasc.ca END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR