The Sky This Month - May 2020

A Virtual Astronomy Day

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Murray D. Paulson

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Ottawa Centre Meeting

Event Date: 
Friday, May 1, 2020 - 7:30pm to 9:30pm

Host: Ottawa Centre

Topic: Monthly Meeting

Join RASC Ottawa for their monthly meeting—now held virtually on Zoom!

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PixInsight Processing

Event Date: 
Friday, May 1, 2020 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm

PLEASE NOTE! Time is in EDT. This event will be at 7 p.m. ADT.

Host: Halifax Centre

Topic: PixInsight Processing

Join RASC member Jeff Donaldson as he demonstrates his workflow using PixInsight on some of his photos. For this new to astrophoto processing, PixInsight is a popular (but not free) image processor for editing your astroimages.

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Halifax Centre Meeting

Event Date: 
Saturday, May 2, 2020 - 12:00pm to 3:30pm

PLEASE NOTE! Time is in EDT. This meeting will be at 1pm ADT

Host: Halifax Centre

Topic: Centre meeting

Each centre hosts monthly meetings. Come join Halifax's online meeting!

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Annual Report 2019

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Speaker Series: Randall Rosenfeld

Event Date: 
Thursday, May 21, 2020 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm

Truth at the Eyepiece—exploring disjunctions between past and present astronomical imagery

Speaker: Randall Rosenfeld, RASC Archivist

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The Insider's Guide to the Galaxy

Event Date: 
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm

Host: Paul Owen

Topic: Intermediate Astrophotography Pt 2

  • Following on last week's session, we will cover processing the data into a final image.

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The Insider's Guide to the Galaxy

Event Date: 
Tuesday, May 19, 2020 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm

Host: Paul Owen

Topic: Intermediate Astrophotography Pt 1

  • In this session we will discuss the first steps to taking beautiful astrophotos.
  • We will cover image acquisition (taking the photos), pre-processing and stacking of images!

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The Insider's Guide to the Galaxy

Event Date: 
Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm

Host: Chris Vaughan

TopicBeginner Telescopes

  • We'll be talking all about reflectors and refractors and the benefits of both.
  • If you are considering buying a telescope, or have just purchased one and want to learn the ropes, this is the session for you!

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