November 2010 |
| ATTENDANCE |
M. Arsenault; A. Bordage; M. Crowdis; P. Cyr; A. Davis; D. Driscoll; M. Giberson; Jialiang C; G. Jones;
V. LeBlanc; J. MacDonald; K. McAdam; S. McHatten; C. Nason; E. O'Reilly; J. Shi; S. Tompkins
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| WHAT'S UP |
Curt covered the things to watch for in the sky over the month.
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| OBSERVING REPORTS |
George J. did bino observing near Lorneville on November 11; Curt N. observed Comet Hartley, the Sun, Jupiter and Saturn,and did talks or observing for two school groups; Ed O. saw Comet Hartley in binos from the park; Dave D. had done solar observing and took an image of the comet.
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| The dark Side of Energy |
George gave a talk on dark energy, starting with a primer on light, then red shifts and expansion of the universe. Possible reasons for expansion are gravity being repulsive at large scales, quantum vacuum energy, or some new, unknown energy. Vacuum energy was shown to have negative energy.
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| SHOW AND TELL |
Curt showed two magazines now available in stores; June brought a constellation umbrella and three meteorites from the Montreal Planetarium.
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| The Sun |
Dave covered the physical facts of the Sun and solar features like sunspots, filaments, plages and prominences. He showed videos of sunspots forming and tangled magnetic field lines, coronal mass ejections, shock waves at Earth's magnetic field, and magnetic line reconnections.
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| Business |
No takers for telescopes or books. June reminded everyone of the club Christmas party.
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