GA Lite Schedule / More Virtual Astronomy
A 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 
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