February 2011 |
| ATTENDANCE |
M. Arsenault; D. Beaudin; C. Clayton; A. Davis; C. Douglas-Belyea; K. Douglas-Belyea; J.Dunlap; C. Fox; C. Humphrey; P. Jensen; G. Jones; A. Little; G. Little; R. Little;
J. MacDonald; D. McCashion; S. McHatten; C. Munoz; C. Nason; E. O'Reilly; M Powell; D. Thorn; S. Thorn; S. Tompkins; C. Trott; S. Wetmore
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| BUSINESS |
No takers for the club scope (still with D. Driscoll); D. McCashion has the solar scope; K. Douglas-Belyea borrowed Pocket Sky Atlas; S. Wetmore borrowed DVD copies #2 and #4; G. Little borrowed Comets: Creators and Destroyers; C Munoz borrowed RASC Observer's Handbook 2010; D. Beaudin borrowed Understanding the Universe Disc #1; S. Thorn borrowed Moon Observer's Guide.
June reminded us of Astronomy Day activities on May 7 (displays at Brunswick Square and Lancaster Mall) and Earth Hour on March 26 (observing at the Algonquin). We discussed and approved donating some money to support P&K Gray's trip to the Starmus Festival in Tenerife in June.
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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 |
Mike P. had been observing prominences with the solar scope. Curt had been keeping an eye on Jupiter and also picked out the Eskimo Nebula from the driveway. Dave B. had been observing Saturn in the early morning. Marc. A. saw a twilight meteor. Dave M. spotted a bolide (bright meteor breaking up) near Plaster Rock and had been watching Venus in the morning.
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| Astronomy Talk |
A Star is Born...and Dies - Curt N. gave a presentation on the birth, life and death of stars, plus why they have colours and why they twinkle.
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| SHOW AND TELL |
Curt had bought Our Night Sky course on DVD. Dave B. had unique constellation cards inserts with backlighting. Gillian L. brought a book Outer Space in Your Pocket. Amber L. brought a book on the planets. June had a DVD Home - Earth from Space, also Stars and Planets and season 4 of The Universe.
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| Astronomy Updates |
Ed O. gave a report on Comet Elenin which will be near Earth in September, and on the Kepler space probe finding a star system with possibly 6 planets (Kepler 11).
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