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rasc-kc picnic

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Members and guests only in person bring your own picnic. Contact us at Kingston@rasc.ca for location information.

rasc-kc picnic

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Members and guests only in person bring your own picnic. Contact us at Kingston@rasc.ca for location information.

RASC-KC Members Astrophotography workshop #6 - online only

Topic: Astrophotography 101 - Planetary Imaging

Guest presenter is Ben Law

Led by Malcolm Park

RASCKC members, please request the URL zoom link via email at kingston@rasc.ca

Regulus 2025 June

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In this issue:
President’s Report            p. 2
The Editors Keyboard            p. 3
Skyward                 p. 4
The Sky This Month             p. 5
A Note from Susan Gagnon        p. 5
Target for Tonight            p. 6
Terence Desmond Hicks            p. 7
Science Rendezvous: May, 2025        p. 8
2025 May Meeting Minutes        p.11
About Us              p.12

Editor: Roger Hill

Queens Observatory Open House

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The next Open House will take place on Saturday June 14th at 8:30pm in Ellis Hall Auditorium at Queen's University.

This month we are looking forward to feature Zoe Brisson-Tsavoussis, who is a graduate student at Queen's. Zoe will present 'From Black Holes to the South Pole: Sending Neutrino Messages Across the Universe'

Sky This Month

Astronomy This Month – February 2026
01 Feb – Full Moon (17:09EST)
02 Feb – !! Full Moon occults Regulus (20:50EST) !!
06 Feb – Artemis II launch?
09 Feb – Last Quarter Moon
10 Feb – zodiacal light visible low in W late in evening twilight
11 Feb – (441) Bathilde (mag 13.3) occults TYC 1275-01275-1 (mag 9.1) for Morrisburg and Cardinal (23:57EST)
12 Feb – gegenschein visible high in the S at midnight from very dark skies
17 Feb – New Moon (07:01EST)
17 Feb – Pancake Tuesday
17 Feb – comet C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos) (mag 7?) visible for the next few days low in SW starting about an hour after sunset
18 Feb – very thin 36hr old crescent Moon 1º below Mercury (mag -0.5) very low in WSW during evening twilight, Venus (mag -3.9) 7º below
19 Feb – Mercury (mag -0.4) at greatest elongation east low in W during evening twilight, Venus (mag -3.9) 8º below
20 Feb – Neptune (mag 7.8) 0.8º right of Saturn (mag 1.0) low in W at end of evening twilight (<1º from 13-26 Feb)
20 Feb – asteroid (15878) 1996 XC3 occults UCAC4 571-046413 (mag 10.8) (03:30EST)
23 Feb – asteroid (8) Flora occults UCAC4 350-128765 (mag 9.0) during morning twilight (06:17EST)
23 Feb – Moon transits the northern edge of Pleiades, occultations of several bright stars on dark limb (22:15EST)
24 Feb – First Quarter Moon
27 Feb - (7) Iris (mag 8.7) at opposition

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