Space Weekend at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto

• Saturday, May 5, 11:00 am to 4:00 pm
• Sunday, May 6, 11:00 am to 4:00 pm  

Nova Scotia Wilderness Resort seeks staff astronomer for Night Outings and Sky Safaris May – November, 2012 (min. 3 month commitment) Trout Point Lodge (www.troutpoint.com) has a position for someone with enthusiasm and knowledge about the night sky.

Members on dial-up Internet will be pleased to know that a new version of Adobe software allows us to substantially reduce the file size of this and subsequent Journals. All back issues in the 2007 and 2008 archives have already been reduced, and others will receive the same size reduction soon.

See below for highlights of the current issue.

The December 2008 issue of the Journal has gone to the printers, and here is the link to the on-line version in the Members'-Only part of the Web site, http://www.rasc.ca/jrasc/backissues

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Inside

• The Plaskett Telescope at 90
• Astronomical Art and Artifact: The View From the RASC Archives

Plus, all your favourite regular columns:

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The complete Annual Report of the RASC is now available on-line (members-only area).

Note that all URLs in the document are live links; and the Table of Contents and Bookmarks are active links within the PDF.

Thanks to all who helped prepare the report - Bonnie Bird, Jo Taylor, Maureen Okun, and especially Catherine Berry.

Regards,
James Edgar
National Secretary

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