From kbaigent at cogeco.ca Sun Aug 10 21:55:49 2014 From: kbaigent at cogeco.ca (Ken Baigent) Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 19:55:49 -0600 Subject: RASC Hamilton Wood Buffalo Dark Sky Festival In-Reply-To: <020501cf9b11$0b2cd2f0$218678d0$@net> References: <0a1201cf92ee$0e3cefa0$2ab6cee0$@net> <012b01cf9afd$684290b0$38c7b210$@cogeco.ca> <020501cf9b11$0b2cd2f0$218678d0$@net> Message-ID: <53E822A5.5020805@cogeco.ca> Hey Gary: Not sure if any of you have attended the Wood Buffalo Dark Sky Festival near Fort Smith NWT (see pages 20 - 24 of Sept/Oct SkyNews) however it is coming up on Aug. 22 - 24. We will unfortunately miss it as we fly back from Yellowknife to Toronto on the 22nd, returning to Yellowknife on Sept. 5th. There is obviously not too much star gazing occurring here through the summer (with 22 hours of daylight in late June), however we're currently losing about an hour of daylight every 10-12 days ........... so star gazing & aurora viewing will soon be amazing again !!!! Our 2nd challenge this year are the vast number of forest fires that are smoking us out. The only road in/out of Yellowknife is closed more than it's open. You can see the current fire situation up here via this link (http://www.nwtfire.com/cms/). Click on the Live Fire Map link, unclick the "fire danger" selector and click the "NWT Wildfires" selector. We're surrounded by fire in Yellowknife (Johnny Cash's "Burning Ring of Fire" comes to mind). Not much of a summer up here - the only good thing is smoked meat (bison, moose, bear) just walks right into town ............... yum, smoked bison !!! We may have a chance to attend a Hamilton RASC event while we're back. If not, we'll be sure to come out when we're back again for 3 weeks over X-Mas & New Years. Have a great week Ken, Elizabeth & Jakob Baigent The local paper had a fun cartoon in advance of the Dary Sky Festival -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Wood Buffalo StarGazers.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 127500 bytes Desc: not available URL: From supergiant2003 at hotmail.com Mon Aug 25 19:40:55 2014 From: supergiant2003 at hotmail.com (Gary Colwell) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 19:40:55 -0400 Subject: RASC Hamilton The 2014-2015 Season! Message-ID: Hello All, Well here it is.almost the end of the summer ( as the EX goes)..and in just over a week we will once again be starting our regular meetings.and we have some pretty great events and speakers lined up already! Our first meeting is on Thursday September 4th at 8:00 pm at the Legion in Waterdown. Our first meeting has traditionally been a "catchup" on what members did over the summer. If there is something you would like to present, a tale of something astronomical that happened over the summer.any photographs you have taken, or anything you might think other members would be interested in hearing.drop me an email at the one below or. supergiant2003 at hotmail.com and let me know what you would like to present and for how long..Lets get our first meeting off to a bang! ( a Big Bang!) Also, October will be election month and I would really like to encourage you to consider becoming a member of the board this year. We would like some fresh and new ideas.and there is always room for just one more on the board. If you would like to nominate someone for the board.please email me with your suggestion.and don't be shy.nominate yourself!!! Also, a special announcement! Westfield has put this on their site. We need a lot of telescopes to do a star party, so any suggestions would be terrific. Mark Westfield Star Party Friday 26 September 2014 19:00 Westfield Heritage Village Westfield Star Party Westfield is very excited to announce a brand new event - The Westfield Star Party. Presented in partnership with the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, this event will be an exciting opportunity to discover the wonders of the night sky. Visitors will be able to learn about the history of astronomy at a period lecture, peer through a Victorian telescope and discover the world of modern astronomy. If you can help out, bring a telescope or just make yourself available for this event..we need a lot of people top help make this new event a huge success. Let me know if you can come!!! Really looking forward to connecting with everyone again this year!....and Oh Yes.Invite a friend!!!! See you all soon!!! Description: logo Gary Colwell President - HamiltonRASC Email president at hamiltonRASC.ca Personal supergiant2003 at hotmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 3203 bytes Desc: not available URL: From kbaigent at cogeco.ca Sun Aug 10 21:55:49 2014 From: kbaigent at cogeco.ca (Ken Baigent) Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 19:55:49 -0600 Subject: RASC Hamilton Wood Buffalo Dark Sky Festival In-Reply-To: <020501cf9b11$0b2cd2f0$218678d0$@net> References: <0a1201cf92ee$0e3cefa0$2ab6cee0$@net> <012b01cf9afd$684290b0$38c7b210$@cogeco.ca> <020501cf9b11$0b2cd2f0$218678d0$@net> Message-ID: <53E822A5.5020805@cogeco.ca> Hey Gary: Not sure if any of you have attended the Wood Buffalo Dark Sky Festival near Fort Smith NWT (see pages 20 - 24 of Sept/Oct SkyNews) however it is coming up on Aug. 22 - 24. We will unfortunately miss it as we fly back from Yellowknife to Toronto on the 22nd, returning to Yellowknife on Sept. 5th. There is obviously not too much star gazing occurring here through the summer (with 22 hours of daylight in late June), however we're currently losing about an hour of daylight every 10-12 days ........... so star gazing & aurora viewing will soon be amazing again !!!! Our 2nd challenge this year are the vast number of forest fires that are smoking us out. The only road in/out of Yellowknife is closed more than it's open. You can see the current fire situation up here via this link (http://www.nwtfire.com/cms/). Click on the Live Fire Map link, unclick the "fire danger" selector and click the "NWT Wildfires" selector. We're surrounded by fire in Yellowknife (Johnny Cash's "Burning Ring of Fire" comes to mind). Not much of a summer up here - the only good thing is smoked meat (bison, moose, bear) just walks right into town ............... yum, smoked bison !!! We may have a chance to attend a Hamilton RASC event while we're back. If not, we'll be sure to come out when we're back again for 3 weeks over X-Mas & New Years. Have a great week Ken, Elizabeth & Jakob Baigent The local paper had a fun cartoon in advance of the Dary Sky Festival -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Wood Buffalo StarGazers.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 127500 bytes Desc: not available URL: From supergiant2003 at hotmail.com Mon Aug 25 19:40:55 2014 From: supergiant2003 at hotmail.com (Gary Colwell) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 19:40:55 -0400 Subject: RASC Hamilton The 2014-2015 Season! Message-ID: Hello All, Well here it is.almost the end of the summer ( as the EX goes)..and in just over a week we will once again be starting our regular meetings.and we have some pretty great events and speakers lined up already! Our first meeting is on Thursday September 4th at 8:00 pm at the Legion in Waterdown. Our first meeting has traditionally been a "catchup" on what members did over the summer. If there is something you would like to present, a tale of something astronomical that happened over the summer.any photographs you have taken, or anything you might think other members would be interested in hearing.drop me an email at the one below or. supergiant2003 at hotmail.com and let me know what you would like to present and for how long..Lets get our first meeting off to a bang! ( a Big Bang!) Also, October will be election month and I would really like to encourage you to consider becoming a member of the board this year. We would like some fresh and new ideas.and there is always room for just one more on the board. If you would like to nominate someone for the board.please email me with your suggestion.and don't be shy.nominate yourself!!! Also, a special announcement! Westfield has put this on their site. We need a lot of telescopes to do a star party, so any suggestions would be terrific. Mark Westfield Star Party Friday 26 September 2014 19:00 Westfield Heritage Village Westfield Star Party Westfield is very excited to announce a brand new event - The Westfield Star Party. Presented in partnership with the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, this event will be an exciting opportunity to discover the wonders of the night sky. Visitors will be able to learn about the history of astronomy at a period lecture, peer through a Victorian telescope and discover the world of modern astronomy. If you can help out, bring a telescope or just make yourself available for this event..we need a lot of people top help make this new event a huge success. Let me know if you can come!!! Really looking forward to connecting with everyone again this year!....and Oh Yes.Invite a friend!!!! See you all soon!!! Description: logo Gary Colwell President - HamiltonRASC Email president at hamiltonRASC.ca Personal supergiant2003 at hotmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 3203 bytes Desc: not available URL: From kbaigent at cogeco.ca Sun Aug 10 21:55:49 2014 From: kbaigent at cogeco.ca (Ken Baigent) Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 19:55:49 -0600 Subject: RASC Hamilton Wood Buffalo Dark Sky Festival In-Reply-To: <020501cf9b11$0b2cd2f0$218678d0$@net> References: <0a1201cf92ee$0e3cefa0$2ab6cee0$@net> <012b01cf9afd$684290b0$38c7b210$@cogeco.ca> <020501cf9b11$0b2cd2f0$218678d0$@net> Message-ID: <53E822A5.5020805@cogeco.ca> Hey Gary: Not sure if any of you have attended the Wood Buffalo Dark Sky Festival near Fort Smith NWT (see pages 20 - 24 of Sept/Oct SkyNews) however it is coming up on Aug. 22 - 24. We will unfortunately miss it as we fly back from Yellowknife to Toronto on the 22nd, returning to Yellowknife on Sept. 5th. There is obviously not too much star gazing occurring here through the summer (with 22 hours of daylight in late June), however we're currently losing about an hour of daylight every 10-12 days ........... so star gazing & aurora viewing will soon be amazing again !!!! Our 2nd challenge this year are the vast number of forest fires that are smoking us out. The only road in/out of Yellowknife is closed more than it's open. You can see the current fire situation up here via this link (http://www.nwtfire.com/cms/). Click on the Live Fire Map link, unclick the "fire danger" selector and click the "NWT Wildfires" selector. We're surrounded by fire in Yellowknife (Johnny Cash's "Burning Ring of Fire" comes to mind). Not much of a summer up here - the only good thing is smoked meat (bison, moose, bear) just walks right into town ............... yum, smoked bison !!! We may have a chance to attend a Hamilton RASC event while we're back. If not, we'll be sure to come out when we're back again for 3 weeks over X-Mas & New Years. Have a great week Ken, Elizabeth & Jakob Baigent The local paper had a fun cartoon in advance of the Dary Sky Festival -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Wood Buffalo StarGazers.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 127500 bytes Desc: not available URL: From supergiant2003 at hotmail.com Mon Aug 25 19:40:55 2014 From: supergiant2003 at hotmail.com (Gary Colwell) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 19:40:55 -0400 Subject: RASC Hamilton The 2014-2015 Season! Message-ID: Hello All, Well here it is.almost the end of the summer ( as the EX goes)..and in just over a week we will once again be starting our regular meetings.and we have some pretty great events and speakers lined up already! Our first meeting is on Thursday September 4th at 8:00 pm at the Legion in Waterdown. Our first meeting has traditionally been a "catchup" on what members did over the summer. If there is something you would like to present, a tale of something astronomical that happened over the summer.any photographs you have taken, or anything you might think other members would be interested in hearing.drop me an email at the one below or. supergiant2003 at hotmail.com and let me know what you would like to present and for how long..Lets get our first meeting off to a bang! ( a Big Bang!) Also, October will be election month and I would really like to encourage you to consider becoming a member of the board this year. We would like some fresh and new ideas.and there is always room for just one more on the board. If you would like to nominate someone for the board.please email me with your suggestion.and don't be shy.nominate yourself!!! Also, a special announcement! Westfield has put this on their site. We need a lot of telescopes to do a star party, so any suggestions would be terrific. Mark Westfield Star Party Friday 26 September 2014 19:00 Westfield Heritage Village Westfield Star Party Westfield is very excited to announce a brand new event - The Westfield Star Party. Presented in partnership with the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, this event will be an exciting opportunity to discover the wonders of the night sky. Visitors will be able to learn about the history of astronomy at a period lecture, peer through a Victorian telescope and discover the world of modern astronomy. If you can help out, bring a telescope or just make yourself available for this event..we need a lot of people top help make this new event a huge success. Let me know if you can come!!! Really looking forward to connecting with everyone again this year!....and Oh Yes.Invite a friend!!!! See you all soon!!! 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