Mississauga Centre RASC
67th Meeting
Members’ Night
Day: Friday, July 14, 2006
Speakers: Roy Swanson
Vic Cooper
Randy Attwood
Bob Anderson
Phil Mozel
Favourites
Vic Cooper showed his two favourite websites: Atmospheric Optics http://www.atoptics.co.uk/ and Fourmilab http://www.fourmilab.ch/.
Atmospheric Optics has extensive images and explanations of atmospheric phenomena including rays, shadows, halos, moonsets etc. and physical explanations for such. The Fourmilab site has various calendars, a chart of the sky from any site and many other features.
Terry Hardman stated that his favourite thing is public outreach. He also demonstrated a 7-21mm eyepiece and green laser pointer.
Bob Anderson talked about some of his favourite books, “The Messier Objects”, “Nightwatch”, “Sky Atlas 2000.0”, “Building Observatories”, “Alvin Clarke Telescopes”,
Roy Swanson talked about the book “Turn Left at Orion”. Roy also explained why meteors are more numerous after midnight using the analogy of bugs splattered on the front, not back window of a moving car. He encouraged the group to look for Perseid meteors this August.
Phil Mozel showed a NASA video image of a meteoroid hitting the moon. The object was estimated to be 1 foot wide. He also talked about one of his favourite shows “Battlestar Galactica”.
Discovery Mission
Randy Attwood spoke about and showed a video of the Discovery mission STS 121. Video cameras were mounted on the solid rocket boosters among other places. Spectacular imagery showed external tank separation, solid rocket landing in the ocean and photos of the shuttle from the ISS.
Randy described the upcoming Starfest 25th anniversary. He encouraged MAS members to become new members of the Mississauga Centre RASC and gave out the mailing address as RASC, P.O. Box 98011, 2126 Burnhamthorpe W., Mississauga L5L 3V4.
Submitted by Chris Malicki, Secretary
Chris
Malicki, Secretary
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