RASC Virtual General Assembly 2020
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GA Lite Schedule / More Virtual Astronomy

GA Lite Splash ImageA series of astronomy webinars scheduled on the two weekends, June 13&14  and June 20&21, following the Virtual GA. The talks are free, open to the public, and family friendly.

 

Times shown are Pacific Daylight Time. (UTC -7:00), conversions to other Canadian timezones are: +1 to Mountain, +2 to Central +3 h0urs to Eastern, +4 to Atlantic, +4.5 to Newfoundland.

 

Attendance to the webinars is limited to 100 on a first-come, first-served basis.

 

Coming soon to the RASC Vancouver Channel on  youtube logo

Watch the recorded sessions on YouTube in the RASC GA Lite 2020 playlist: videos from “GA Lite – Part 1” are there now, others will be uploaded by the end of June or early July.

Saturday June 13th - start time has changed to 1:00 pm!

Join Zoom webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81319216916?pwd=WTlHVEliRjJWaWJNeExCaWJ4clNHdz09

1:00 pm

Ian McLennan, RASC Vancouver – Planetariums Update

1:30 pm

Marina Miller, RASC Vancouver  – Making your centre more environmentally friendly

2:00 pm

Matthew Cimone, RASC Vancouver – Jewel of the Cosmos: Diamonds in Space, Diamonds of Sierra Leone

2:30 pm

Charles Ennis, RASC Sunshine Coast – Building a small observatory

Sunday June 14th

Join Zoom webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87211890811?pwd=WlJsRTVra21xWkR1MmxjaEJkdTJWdz09

11:00 am

Chris Gainor, RASC President, Randall Rosenfeld, RASC Archivist, and Peter Broughton, RASC – What’s the Point of the History of Astronomy

11:30 am

Frasier Cain, the Universe Today – Satellite Megaconstellations and Astronomy

12:00 pm

Tim Yaworski, RASC Saskatoon – Shoot for the Stars: Astrophotography for Beginners (1 hour)

Saturday June 20th

Join Zoom webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86814525014?pwd=ZjRzSWI0UmVaT2U1Ymtic0F2bml5dz09

11:00 am

Aaron Boley, co-director of the Outer Space Institute at UBC – Space Policy/Debris

11:30 am

Scott McGillvery, RASC Vancouver – How to put your centre on TV.

12:00 pm

Michelle Kunimoto, UBC Grad Student – How I Discovered 17 Potential Exoplanets

12:30 pm

Jess McIver,  UBC Astrophysicist – Recent Advances in Gravitational Wave Astronomy

Sunday June 21st

Join Zoom webinar:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85055277087?pwd=NHZ6NHNwZyszMW4xZzJaUVNOVWVTQT09

11:00 am

Robert Conrad & Andrew Krysa, RASC Vancouver – A failsafe guide to charting and starhopping to any astronomical object (1 hr).

12:00 pm

Sharon Odell, RASC Ottawa – The National Heritage of the Dominion Observatory & RASC Preservation Committee

12:30 pm

Kurtis Baute, Science Communicator and Creator – Why Earth Is Smaller Than You Think

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