From president at hamiltonrasc.ca Wed May 1 20:20:40 2019 From: president at hamiltonrasc.ca (president at hamiltonrasc.ca) Date: Thu, 02 May 2019 00:20:40 +0000 Subject: [RASC Hamilton Special Announcement] MAY MEETING POSTPONED Message-ID: Dear Members, Due to unforeseen circumstances, we were just made aware that the Legion cannot accommodate us tomorrow. Therefore, the May 2nd meeting will be postponed. Watch for further updates. We apologize for the inconvenience. In the meantime, here are other RASC events to add to your calendar: MONTHLY ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST http://hamiltonrasc.ca/forum/index.php?topic=1102.0 (http://hamiltonrasc.ca/forum/index.php?topic=1102.0) CANADIAN ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY SCHOOL: MAY 4-5, 2019 http://hamiltonrasc.ca/CAPS/ (http://hamiltonrasc.ca/CAPS/) HAMILTON OBSERVATORY NIGHT: MAY 10, 2019 Details: http://hamiltonrasc.ca/forum/index.php?topic=974.0 (http://hamiltonrasc.ca/forum/index.php?topic=974.0) Directions: http://www.hamiltonrasc.ca/club-observatory/ (http://www.hamiltonrasc.ca/club-observatory/) RASC NATIONAL GENERAL ASSEMBLY: JUNE 13-16, 2019 https://rascga2019.ca/ (https://rascga2019.ca/) DAVID DUNLAP OBSERVATORY TOUR: JUNE 21, 2019 http://hamiltonrasc.ca/forum/index.php?topic=1098.0 (http://hamiltonrasc.ca/forum/index.php?topic=1098.0) Muhammad Basil Ahmad RPh, HonBSc, BScPhm, CDE President | HamiltonRASC.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From president at hamiltonrasc.ca Fri May 24 00:50:04 2019 From: president at hamiltonrasc.ca (president at hamiltonrasc.ca) Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 04:50:04 +0000 Subject: [RASC Hamilton Special Announcement] June Meeting: Exploring Mars Mineralogy & Geology Using In Situ X-Ray Diffraction Message-ID: Dear Members, The topic for our cancelled May meeting has been moved to the June meeting: “Exploring Mars Mineralogy and Geology Using In Situ X-Ray Diffraction” Dr. Roberta Flemming Associate Professor Earth Sciences and Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration University of Western Ontario To understand the evolution of Mars, we need to study its minerals. There is a mineralogical record of Mars geological processes, impact history, climate (e.g., the history of water on Mars) and habitability. Several instruments have been flown on space missions to examine the mineralogy of Mars, including orbiters, landers, and rovers. Several rover-based instruments measure chemical information from the rocks (such as the APXS on MER and Curiosity rovers), but chemical composition alone does not provide a complete picture of the history of the rocks. X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) is the primary technique to determine the mineralogy of rocks and other natural materials. XRD is currently being used on Mars with the CheMin instrument on NASA’s Curiosity rover, however, the CheMin technique crushes the rock to a powder, which destroys the original information about the relationship between the minerals in the rock. A team from Western, Brock, and Guelph universities, along with Canadian companies PROTO and MDA are developing a concept for a miniaturized in situ XRD (ISXRD) which will be able to analyse minerals directly on the martian surface. As a part of this concept study we are assembling a set of Martian analogue rocks, minerals common on the martian surface, and martian meteorites. We will be comparing XRD results from Flemming’s current micro-XRD lab at Western with results obtained using various rover-candidate miniaturized X-ray components and geometries tested by PROTO Manufacturing in Windsor. This will lay the foundation for an in situ X-ray diffraction instrument to be used in future Mars exploration – or anywhere else a remotely-operated robotic rover might be deployed, including remote regions of Earth for environmental science or resource prospecting. Dr. Roberta Flemming (Associate Professor, Western Earth Sciences and Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration) is a mineralogist by training. She has been Director of the Powder and Micro X-ray Diffraction Facility at Western since 2002. She is leading a multidisciplinary team of researchers, with funding from the Canadian Space Agency, to develop a “Miniaturized In-situ X-Ray Diffractometer for Mineralogical Characterization of Planetary Surfaces (ISXRD)” which will focus on Mars. Thursday, June 6, 2019 at 8:00 PM The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 551 79 Hamilton Street North, 2nd floor Waterdown, Ontario L0R 2H0 -- Muhammad Basil Ahmad RPh, HonBSc, BScPhm, CDE President | HamiltonRASC.ca (http://www.hamiltonrasc.ca) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Roberta Flemming 1.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 472608 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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By 1935, the dome, housing a 74-inch reflector telescope, administration building with three smaller telescope domes were completed. It was the second largest telescope in the world and a leader in Canadian astronomical research, achieving advances in radio astronomy and the first direct evidence that Cygnus X-1 was a black hole." Source: YorkRegion.com History and Future of the David Dunlap Observatory Building tours including historic science demonstrations * Photographic copy of the original Palomar Sky Survey * Photographic Spectroscopy * Photon-counting Photoelectric Photometry * Tom Bolton's discovery plates of Cygnus X-1 Visit to the Great 74-inch Telescope * The largest optical telescope in Canada * Viewing through it if weather permits This tour is open to RASC Hamilton members, family and friends. Cost is $10 per person. Limited to 50 people. Buy tickets at our June 6th meeting. Cash only! Questions? Contact president at hamiltonrasc.ca Participants are to arrange their own transportation. You may discuss carpool options with others in this thread: http://hamiltonrasc.ca/forum/index.php?topic=1098.0 (http://hamiltonrasc.ca/forum/index.php?topic=1098.0) -- Muhammad Basil Ahmad RPh, HonBSc, BScPhm, CDE President | HamiltonRASC.ca (http://www.hamiltonrasc.ca/) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: DDO.png Type: image/png Size: 766672 bytes Desc: not available URL: From president at hamiltonrasc.ca Wed May 1 20:20:40 2019 From: president at hamiltonrasc.ca (president at hamiltonrasc.ca) Date: Thu, 02 May 2019 00:20:40 +0000 Subject: [RASC Hamilton Special Announcement] MAY MEETING POSTPONED Message-ID: Dear Members, Due to unforeseen circumstances, we were just made aware that the Legion cannot accommodate us tomorrow. Therefore, the May 2nd meeting will be postponed. Watch for further updates. We apologize for the inconvenience. In the meantime, here are other RASC events to add to your calendar: MONTHLY ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST http://hamiltonrasc.ca/forum/index.php?topic=1102.0 (http://hamiltonrasc.ca/forum/index.php?topic=1102.0) CANADIAN ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY SCHOOL: MAY 4-5, 2019 http://hamiltonrasc.ca/CAPS/ (http://hamiltonrasc.ca/CAPS/) HAMILTON OBSERVATORY NIGHT: MAY 10, 2019 Details: http://hamiltonrasc.ca/forum/index.php?topic=974.0 (http://hamiltonrasc.ca/forum/index.php?topic=974.0) Directions: http://www.hamiltonrasc.ca/club-observatory/ (http://www.hamiltonrasc.ca/club-observatory/) RASC NATIONAL GENERAL ASSEMBLY: JUNE 13-16, 2019 https://rascga2019.ca/ (https://rascga2019.ca/) DAVID DUNLAP OBSERVATORY TOUR: JUNE 21, 2019 http://hamiltonrasc.ca/forum/index.php?topic=1098.0 (http://hamiltonrasc.ca/forum/index.php?topic=1098.0) Muhammad Basil Ahmad RPh, HonBSc, BScPhm, CDE President | HamiltonRASC.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From president at hamiltonrasc.ca Fri May 24 00:50:04 2019 From: president at hamiltonrasc.ca (president at hamiltonrasc.ca) Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 04:50:04 +0000 Subject: [RASC Hamilton Special Announcement] June Meeting: Exploring Mars Mineralogy & Geology Using In Situ X-Ray Diffraction Message-ID: Dear Members, The topic for our cancelled May meeting has been moved to the June meeting: “Exploring Mars Mineralogy and Geology Using In Situ X-Ray Diffraction” Dr. Roberta Flemming Associate Professor Earth Sciences and Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration University of Western Ontario To understand the evolution of Mars, we need to study its minerals. There is a mineralogical record of Mars geological processes, impact history, climate (e.g., the history of water on Mars) and habitability. Several instruments have been flown on space missions to examine the mineralogy of Mars, including orbiters, landers, and rovers. Several rover-based instruments measure chemical information from the rocks (such as the APXS on MER and Curiosity rovers), but chemical composition alone does not provide a complete picture of the history of the rocks. X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) is the primary technique to determine the mineralogy of rocks and other natural materials. XRD is currently being used on Mars with the CheMin instrument on NASA’s Curiosity rover, however, the CheMin technique crushes the rock to a powder, which destroys the original information about the relationship between the minerals in the rock. A team from Western, Brock, and Guelph universities, along with Canadian companies PROTO and MDA are developing a concept for a miniaturized in situ XRD (ISXRD) which will be able to analyse minerals directly on the martian surface. As a part of this concept study we are assembling a set of Martian analogue rocks, minerals common on the martian surface, and martian meteorites. We will be comparing XRD results from Flemming’s current micro-XRD lab at Western with results obtained using various rover-candidate miniaturized X-ray components and geometries tested by PROTO Manufacturing in Windsor. This will lay the foundation for an in situ X-ray diffraction instrument to be used in future Mars exploration – or anywhere else a remotely-operated robotic rover might be deployed, including remote regions of Earth for environmental science or resource prospecting. Dr. Roberta Flemming (Associate Professor, Western Earth Sciences and Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration) is a mineralogist by training. She has been Director of the Powder and Micro X-ray Diffraction Facility at Western since 2002. She is leading a multidisciplinary team of researchers, with funding from the Canadian Space Agency, to develop a “Miniaturized In-situ X-Ray Diffractometer for Mineralogical Characterization of Planetary Surfaces (ISXRD)” which will focus on Mars. Thursday, June 6, 2019 at 8:00 PM The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 551 79 Hamilton Street North, 2nd floor Waterdown, Ontario L0R 2H0 -- Muhammad Basil Ahmad RPh, HonBSc, BScPhm, CDE President | HamiltonRASC.ca (http://www.hamiltonrasc.ca) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Roberta Flemming 1.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 472608 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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By 1935, the dome, housing a 74-inch reflector telescope, administration building with three smaller telescope domes were completed. It was the second largest telescope in the world and a leader in Canadian astronomical research, achieving advances in radio astronomy and the first direct evidence that Cygnus X-1 was a black hole." Source: YorkRegion.com History and Future of the David Dunlap Observatory Building tours including historic science demonstrations * Photographic copy of the original Palomar Sky Survey * Photographic Spectroscopy * Photon-counting Photoelectric Photometry * Tom Bolton's discovery plates of Cygnus X-1 Visit to the Great 74-inch Telescope * The largest optical telescope in Canada * Viewing through it if weather permits This tour is open to RASC Hamilton members, family and friends. Cost is $10 per person. Limited to 50 people. Buy tickets at our June 6th meeting. Cash only! Questions? Contact president at hamiltonrasc.ca Participants are to arrange their own transportation. You may discuss carpool options with others in this thread: http://hamiltonrasc.ca/forum/index.php?topic=1098.0 (http://hamiltonrasc.ca/forum/index.php?topic=1098.0) -- Muhammad Basil Ahmad RPh, HonBSc, BScPhm, CDE President | HamiltonRASC.ca (http://www.hamiltonrasc.ca/) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: DDO.png Type: image/png Size: 766672 bytes Desc: not available URL: From president at hamiltonrasc.ca Wed May 1 20:20:40 2019 From: president at hamiltonrasc.ca (president at hamiltonrasc.ca) Date: Thu, 02 May 2019 00:20:40 +0000 Subject: [RASC Hamilton Special Announcement] MAY MEETING POSTPONED Message-ID: Dear Members, Due to unforeseen circumstances, we were just made aware that the Legion cannot accommodate us tomorrow. Therefore, the May 2nd meeting will be postponed. Watch for further updates. We apologize for the inconvenience. In the meantime, here are other RASC events to add to your calendar: MONTHLY ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST http://hamiltonrasc.ca/forum/index.php?topic=1102.0 (http://hamiltonrasc.ca/forum/index.php?topic=1102.0) CANADIAN ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY SCHOOL: MAY 4-5, 2019 http://hamiltonrasc.ca/CAPS/ (http://hamiltonrasc.ca/CAPS/) HAMILTON OBSERVATORY NIGHT: MAY 10, 2019 Details: http://hamiltonrasc.ca/forum/index.php?topic=974.0 (http://hamiltonrasc.ca/forum/index.php?topic=974.0) Directions: http://www.hamiltonrasc.ca/club-observatory/ (http://www.hamiltonrasc.ca/club-observatory/) RASC NATIONAL GENERAL ASSEMBLY: JUNE 13-16, 2019 https://rascga2019.ca/ (https://rascga2019.ca/) DAVID DUNLAP OBSERVATORY TOUR: JUNE 21, 2019 http://hamiltonrasc.ca/forum/index.php?topic=1098.0 (http://hamiltonrasc.ca/forum/index.php?topic=1098.0) Muhammad Basil Ahmad RPh, HonBSc, BScPhm, CDE President | HamiltonRASC.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From president at hamiltonrasc.ca Fri May 24 00:50:04 2019 From: president at hamiltonrasc.ca (president at hamiltonrasc.ca) Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 04:50:04 +0000 Subject: [RASC Hamilton Special Announcement] June Meeting: Exploring Mars Mineralogy & Geology Using In Situ X-Ray Diffraction Message-ID: Dear Members, The topic for our cancelled May meeting has been moved to the June meeting: “Exploring Mars Mineralogy and Geology Using In Situ X-Ray Diffraction” Dr. Roberta Flemming Associate Professor Earth Sciences and Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration University of Western Ontario To understand the evolution of Mars, we need to study its minerals. There is a mineralogical record of Mars geological processes, impact history, climate (e.g., the history of water on Mars) and habitability. Several instruments have been flown on space missions to examine the mineralogy of Mars, including orbiters, landers, and rovers. Several rover-based instruments measure chemical information from the rocks (such as the APXS on MER and Curiosity rovers), but chemical composition alone does not provide a complete picture of the history of the rocks. X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) is the primary technique to determine the mineralogy of rocks and other natural materials. XRD is currently being used on Mars with the CheMin instrument on NASA’s Curiosity rover, however, the CheMin technique crushes the rock to a powder, which destroys the original information about the relationship between the minerals in the rock. A team from Western, Brock, and Guelph universities, along with Canadian companies PROTO and MDA are developing a concept for a miniaturized in situ XRD (ISXRD) which will be able to analyse minerals directly on the martian surface. As a part of this concept study we are assembling a set of Martian analogue rocks, minerals common on the martian surface, and martian meteorites. We will be comparing XRD results from Flemming’s current micro-XRD lab at Western with results obtained using various rover-candidate miniaturized X-ray components and geometries tested by PROTO Manufacturing in Windsor. This will lay the foundation for an in situ X-ray diffraction instrument to be used in future Mars exploration – or anywhere else a remotely-operated robotic rover might be deployed, including remote regions of Earth for environmental science or resource prospecting. Dr. Roberta Flemming (Associate Professor, Western Earth Sciences and Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration) is a mineralogist by training. She has been Director of the Powder and Micro X-ray Diffraction Facility at Western since 2002. She is leading a multidisciplinary team of researchers, with funding from the Canadian Space Agency, to develop a “Miniaturized In-situ X-Ray Diffractometer for Mineralogical Characterization of Planetary Surfaces (ISXRD)” which will focus on Mars. Thursday, June 6, 2019 at 8:00 PM The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 551 79 Hamilton Street North, 2nd floor Waterdown, Ontario L0R 2H0 -- Muhammad Basil Ahmad RPh, HonBSc, BScPhm, CDE President | HamiltonRASC.ca (http://www.hamiltonrasc.ca) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Roberta Flemming 1.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 472608 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Roberta Flemming 2.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 241770 bytes Desc: not available URL: From president at hamiltonrasc.ca Wed May 29 19:24:48 2019 From: president at hamiltonrasc.ca (president at hamiltonrasc.ca) Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 23:24:48 +0000 Subject: [RASC Hamilton Special Announcement] David Dunlap Observatory Tour Message-ID: <6463452a72f5a80e9eb60efd2ff8785a@webmail.hamiltonrasc.ca> David Dunlap Observatory Tour Friday, June 21, 2019, 9 - 11 pm (gates open 8:30 pm) 123 Hillsview Dr, Richmond Hill, ON L4C 1T3 "In 1932, Jessie Donalda Dunlap bought the Marsh farmstead for $28,000 and donated it to the University of Toronto as a memorial to her husband who’d amassed a fortune in mining and gold but held a passion for astronomy. The U of T’s downtown observatory could no longer function due to light pollution and the land was perfectly perched on a hill north of the city. By 1935, the dome, housing a 74-inch reflector telescope, administration building with three smaller telescope domes were completed. It was the second largest telescope in the world and a leader in Canadian astronomical research, achieving advances in radio astronomy and the first direct evidence that Cygnus X-1 was a black hole." Source: YorkRegion.com History and Future of the David Dunlap Observatory Building tours including historic science demonstrations * Photographic copy of the original Palomar Sky Survey * Photographic Spectroscopy * Photon-counting Photoelectric Photometry * Tom Bolton's discovery plates of Cygnus X-1 Visit to the Great 74-inch Telescope * The largest optical telescope in Canada * Viewing through it if weather permits This tour is open to RASC Hamilton members, family and friends. Cost is $10 per person. Limited to 50 people. Buy tickets at our June 6th meeting. Cash only! Questions? Contact president at hamiltonrasc.ca Participants are to arrange their own transportation. You may discuss carpool options with others in this thread: http://hamiltonrasc.ca/forum/index.php?topic=1098.0 (http://hamiltonrasc.ca/forum/index.php?topic=1098.0) -- Muhammad Basil Ahmad RPh, HonBSc, BScPhm, CDE President | HamiltonRASC.ca (http://www.hamiltonrasc.ca/) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: DDO.png Type: image/png Size: 766672 bytes Desc: not available URL: