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RASC Kingston Centre Meetings & Speakers
The following is a list of speakers and their topics and special events that we have had over the 50 years or so. More info will be filled in as it becomes available.

Date, Time, meeting type (meeting location), guest, topic

1973
1973 November 13 8:30pm (Ellis Hall Room 323, Queens) Dr. W.Y. Chau “Black Holes”

1974
1974 January 22 Tuesday 8:30pm (Ellis Hall Room 323, Queens) Dr. Bridle “his experiments to determine if intelligent
life exists outside our solar system”
1974 February 5 Tuesday 8:30pm (Ellis Hall Room 323, Queens) Film
1974 February 26 Tuesday 8:30pm (Ellis Hall Room 219, Queens) Two films from the National Film Board will be shown. The first is entitled, “What on Earth” and the second is called “Auroral Rocket”(
1974 March 12 Tuesday 8:30pm (Ellis Hall Room 219, Queens)
1974 March 22 Friday 8:00pm (Ellis Hall Room 323, Queens) for those members interested in observing – both
seeing and photographing.
1974 March 26 Tuesday 8:30pm (Ellis Hall Room 219, Queens) Dr. R.N. Henriksen (Queens) “Physics and Cosmology: By Their
Constants Ye Shall Know Them”

1977
1977 January 18 Tuesday 8:00pm (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)
1977 February 1 Tuesday 8:00pm (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)
1977 February 15 Tuesday 8:00pm (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens) Member presentations
1977 March 1 Tuesday 8:00pm (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens) Member presentations
1977 March 15 Tuesday 8:00pm (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens) Member presentations
1977 March 29 Tuesday 8:00pm (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens) Elections
1977 May 27 – picnic at the Holleford Crater
1977 July 19 Tuesday 9:00pm
1977 August 2 Tuesday 9:00pm
1977 August 16 Tuesday 9:00pm
1977 August 30 Tuesday 9:00pm
1977 September 13 Tuesday 9:00pm
1977 September 27 Tuesday 8:00pm (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queen)s
1977 October 11 Tuesday 8:00pm (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)
1977 October 25 Tuesday 8:00pm (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)
1977 November 8 Tuesday 8:00pm (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens) Dr. Bridle (Queen’s U. Physics) “The V.L.A. (a project he has been working on in New Mexico)”
1977 November 22 Tuesday 8:00pm (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens) Dr. Alan Batten (President of the RASC) “Close Binary Systems”
1977 December 6 Tuesday 8:00pm (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens) Dr. John Percy (RASC First Vice President) “Pulsating Stars”
1977 December 20 Tuesday 8:00pm (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)

1978
1978 January 10
1978 January 24 8:00pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens) David Levy “Comets and in particular the comet of 1861”
1978 February 7 8:00pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens) Leo Enright “The Astrolabe: Its History, Construction, and Use”
1978 February 21 8:00pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens) Dr. AV Douglas “The I.A.U. and its congresses”
1978 March 7 8:00pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens) David Levy “Observing Variable Stars”
1978 May 2 8:00pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)
1978 May 16 8:30pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)
1978 May 30 8:30pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)
1978 June 13 8:30pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens) Doug Baker “Stonehenge”
1978 June 27 8:30pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)
1978 July 11 Thursday 8:30pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)
1978 July 24 Thursday 8:30pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)
1978 August 8 Thursday 8:30pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)
1978 August 22 Thursday 8:30pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)
1978 September 7 Thursday 8:30pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)
1978 September 21 Thursday 8:30pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)
1978 October 5 Thursday Public Meeting 8:30pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens) Peter Jedicke (RASC London Centre President) “Colonization Of Space”
1978 October 19 Thursday Public Meeting 8:30pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens) David Levy (RASC Kingston Centre) “Teaching Astronomy to Young Children”.
1978 November 2 Thursday Public Meeting 8:30pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)David Levy (RASC Kingston Centre) “AAVSO Conference”.
1978 November 30 Thursday Public Meeting 8:30pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)
1978 December 14 Thursday 8:30pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)

1979
1979 January 11 Thursday 8:30pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)
1979 January 25 Thursday 8:30pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)
1979 February 8 Thursday 8:30pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)
1979 February 22 Thursday 8:30pm Public Meeting Dr. John Percy (RASC President)
1979 March 8th Thursday 8:30pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)
1979 March 22nd Thursday 8:30pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens) Elections
1979 April 5th Thursday 8:30pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens) Dr. A.V. Douglas ?
1979 April 19th Thursday 8:30pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens) Dr. A.V. Douglas “Sir Arthur Eddington”
1979 May 3rd Thursday 8:30pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)
1979 May 15th Tuesday 8:30pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)
1979 May 31st Thursday 8:30pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)
1979 June 14th Thursday 8:30pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)
1979 June 28th Thursday 8:30pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)
1979 July 12th Thursday 8:30pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)
1979 July 26th Thursday 8:30pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)
1979 August 9th Thursday 8:30pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)
1979 August 23rd Thursday 8:30pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)

June 14th, June 28th, July 12th,
July 26th, Aug. 9th, Aug. 23rd.

1980
1980 January 10
1980 February 21 Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens) Peter Jedicke and Tom Glinos (RASC London) “His trip to southern Arizona)
1980 October 30 8:00pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)
1980 November 13 8:00pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)
1980 November 27 8:00pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)
1980 December 11 8:00pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)

1981

1982
April 30 8:00pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)Determining Latitude – Terry Hicks (RASC Kingston) “Finding Your Latitude With Great Precision”.

1983
1983 March 11 8:00pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)Dr. John Coleman (Queens Math) “Eddington: Astronomer and Theoretical Physicist”
1983 April 8 8:00pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens) John Hansen
1983 April 22 8:00pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)Peter Jedicke (RASC London)
1983 April 23 8:00pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)Saturday 10am-7pm – Astronomy Day Frontenac Mall
1983 May 13 8:00pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)Mark and Sue Sorensen
1983 May 27 8:00pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)Reports and photos from the 1993 General Assembly
1983 June 10 8:00pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens) – 1983 General Assembly reports, Hugh Thompson “Calculating the Speed of Light”; Klaus Brasch “Astrophotography with a C10”
1983 June 24 8:00pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)- Gerald Schieven (RASC Kingston) “The Moon and the Tides”
1983 July 8 8:00pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens) Lunar Eclipse Reports from members
1983 July 22 8:00pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens) Leo Enright (RASC Kingston) Siderial Time
1983 August 12 8:00pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens) Planning for Perseid Shower Observing
1983 August 26 8:00pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens) David Levy (RASC Kingston) “My Comet Hunting Program”
1983 September 9 8:00pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)
1983 September 23 8:00pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens) Franklin Loehde (RASC President)
1983 October 14 8:00pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)
1983 October 28 8:00pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)
1983 November 11 8:00pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)
1983 November 25 8:00pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens) Annual General Meeting and Dinner
1983 December 9 8:00pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)

1984
1984 April 13: Peter Jedicke (RASC London)
1984 May 5th: Astronomy Day Cataraqui Town Centre
1984 June 22: Terry Dickinson (RASC Toronto): CHFT in Hawaii
1984 August 10: David Levy (RASC Kingston) ALPO’s Meteor and Comet Sections
1984 September 14: Leo Enright (RASC Kingston) Sunspot Photographs
1984 October 12: Mark Sorensen (RASC Kingston) The Shape of the Universe
1984 October 26: Leo Enright (RASC Kingston) Amateur Planning to Observe Comet Halley
1984 November 9: Sue Sorensen (RASC Kingston) Outstanding Women Astronomers

1985
1985 January 11: Murray Anderson: Planetary Trajectories & Rocket Equations

1986
1986 April 19 Saturday Astronomy Day Frontenac Mall
1986 May 9 8:00pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens) Murray Anderson “Mars”
1986 May 23 8:00pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens) Peter Jedicke (RASC London) “Optical …”
1986 June 27 8:00pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens) Doug George (RASC Ottawa) “Deep Sky Observing Techniques”
1986 July 11 8:00pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)
1986 July 25 8:00pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens)
1986 August 8 8:00pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens) Reports from Stellafane
1986 August 22 8:00pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens) Doug George (RASC Ottawa) Deep Sky Observing Techniques
1986 September 12 8:00pm Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 222, Queens) Peter Ceravolo (RASC Edmonton) Optical Design for Telescopes

1987
1st annual Charleston Lake Star Party with Terry Dickinson

1988

1989
1989 Friday February 10th
1989 Friday March 10th
1989 Friday April 13th Denise Sabatini (RASC Kingston) Mayan Astronomy
1989 Friday May 12th Walter MacDonald (RASC Kingston) Computers in Astronomy
1989 Friday June 9th Light Pollution Forum
1989 Friday July 14th Leo Enright (RASC Kingston) Voyager at Neptune
1989 August 9th 3rd Annual Charleston Lake Star Party
1989 Friday August 11th Mike Jefferson (RASC Hamilton) Buying a Telescope
1989 Friday September 8th Neptune video
1989 Friday October 13th Joady Ulrich (RASC Windsor) Astronomy on Canvas
1989 Friday October 20 West campus, Queens University – Clyde Tombaugh – The Discovery of Pluto
1989 Friday November 10th Lloyd Higgs (RASC President) National Report

1990
1990 January Terry Dickinson (RASC Toronto) Voyager 2 Neptune Flyby
1990 February Gerald Moriarty-Schieven (RASC Kingston) Star Formation and ProtoPlanets
1990 Friday March Ian Levstein (RASC Kingston) Astronomy in the Sci-Fi Film
1990 April Dr. Philip Baille – Great Men of Astronomy from ancient times to 1700
1990 April Astronomy Day displays at 2 malls (Cataraqui and Belleville)
1990 May Members night
1990 June Walter McDonald (RASC Kingston) Questar 12″ Experience
1990 July Terry Hicks (RASC Kingston) Where will the Sun Set?
1990 August Bill Broderick (RASC Kingston) Our Cosmic Connections
1990 August 4th annual Charleston Lake Star Party with Terry Dickinson
1990 September Members Night
1990 October – John Griese III (RASC Kingston) July 1989 Total Solar Eclipse
1990 November Leo Enright (RASC Kingston) Holleford Crater
1990 November David Levy (RASC Kingston) Comet Discoveries
1990 December Annual General Meeting, elections

1991
Friday January 11 Cancelled due to Blizzard
Friday February 8 Stan Hanna (RASC Kingston) Richard Preston’s At First Light
Friday March 8 Peggy Torney (RASC Kingston) A Voyage Through the Universe
March 26 Alister Ling (RASC Edmonton) Deep Sky Observing
Friday April ? 1991 Ian Levstein (RASC Kingston) The Surface is Fine and Powdery- Apollo Lunar Landing Program
April 20 Astronomy Day at the Kingston Shopping Centre
May 4th NFCAAA Conference Dr. Martin Duncan (Queen’s) Chaos in the Solar System
May ? Leo Enright (RASC Kingston) Upcoming Solar Eclipse
June 14th Walter McDonald (RASC Kingston) 1984 Solar Eclipse
July 19th Denise Sabatini (RASC Kingston) Archeoastronomy
Friday August 16 special meeting at the Charleston Lake Star Party
Friday September 13 Members Night
September 26th Damien Lemay (RASC President) Astronomy, Hobby or Science?
Friday October 11 Bill Broderick (RASC Kingston) Light Pollution
Friday December ? 1991 Ian Levstein (RASC Kingston) Harmony of the Spheres

1992
Friday January 10th John Mirtle (RASC Calgary) Astrophotography
Friday February 14th Kevin Kell (RASC Kingston) Observing Without a Telescope
Friday March 6th Dr. Ed Kennedy (RASC Saskatoon) 1835 Moon Hoax
Friday April 10th Denise Sabatini (RASC Kingston) Archeoastronomy
Friday May 8th Gordon Taylor, Mark Kaye, Kevin Kell (RASC Kingston) Astronomy Software
Saturday May 9th Astronomy Day Frontenac Mall
Friday June 12th Walter MacDonald (RASC Kingston) Variable Star Observing Astronomy’s Black Sheep
Friday July 10th film
Friday August 14th Christine Kulyk (RASC Kingston) Spheres of Influence or when Astronomers Ruled the Earth
Friday September 11th Members Night
Saturday September 12th Sky is the Limit Festival Grass Creek Park
Saturday September 26th Kingston Centre Mall Display
Friday October 9th Stan Hanna (RASC Kingston) Anthropomorphic What? George Greenstein’s Contributions to Contemporary Astronomy.
Friday November 13th Leo Enright (RASC Kingston) Solar Eclipses in History
Friday December 11th Peggy Torney (RASC Kingston) The Winter Solstice

1993
Friday January 8th Kevin Kell (RASC Kingston) The Solar System Then Now and Later
Friday February 12th Ian Levstein (RASC Kingston) Planets and Parchment, Astronomical Hebraica
Friday March 12th Leo Enright (RASC Kingston) Eclipses in the 20th Century
Friday April 2nd Dr. Richard Henriksen (Queen’s) What’s New in Cosmology Part 1
Friday May 7th Terence Dickenson (RASC Toronto) The Southern Sky from Las Campanas Chile
Saturday May 8th Astronomy Day Frontenac Mall
Monday June 7th Jack Newton (RASC Victoria) Colour CCD Imaging
Friday June 11th Denise Sabatini (RASC Kingston) The Interrupted Journey
Friday July 9th Dr. Dave Hanes (Queen’s) Observing Globular Clusters with the Hubble Space Telescope
Friday August 13th Dr. Richard Henriksen (Queen’s) What’s new in Cosmology Part 2
Sunday August 22nd Charleston Lake Star Party
Friday September 10th Members Night
Friday October 1st David Levy (RASC Kingston) Year of the Comet: Collision with Jupiter
Friday October 8th Annual General Meeting & Elections
Friday October 22nd Terence Dickinson (RASC Toronto) From the Big Bang to Planet X
Friday November 12th Peter Broughton (RASC President) What is the RASC? Past Present Future
Friday December 10th Bill Broderick (RASC Kingston) Big Bang or Big Bust? Annual Christmas Dinner McGinnis Landing

1994
Friday January 14th Judith Irwin (Queen’s) Outflows from Spiral Galaxies
Friday February 11th Peggy Torney (RASC Kingston) The Art of Astronomy
Friday March 11th John Gauvreau (RASC Hamilton) Naked Eye Atmospheric Phenomena
Friday April 8th Astronomy Workshop
Saturday April 16th Astronomy Day Kingston Centre Mall
Friday May 13th Rob Dick & Glenn Ledrew (RASC Ottawa) Astronomy and Videography
Friday June 10th Cathy Hall (RASC Ottawa) Astronomy in Available Light Photography
Friday July 8th Gord Taylor (RASC Kingston) Gravitational Lenses
Friday August 12th Walter MacDonald (RASC Kingston) More Tales from a Spinning Astronomer
Friday September 9th Members Night
Friday October 14th Doug Clapp Virutal Observing the The Sky and SkyPro; Annual General Meeting and Elections
Thursday November 3rd Doug Hube (RASC President) The Lunar Grazing Occultation Expedition of the Edmonton Centre to Fort Nelson BC
Friday November 11th Dr. Richard Henriksen (Queen’s)
Friday December 9th Dieter Brueckner (RASC Kingston) Modelling Creation An Experimental Perspective

1995
Friday January 13th Dr. Martin Duncan (Queen’s) Origins of Comets
Friday February 10th Leo Enright (RASC Kingston) Meteor Showers
Friday March 10th Dr. Dave Hanes (Queen’s) Globular Clusters
Friday April 7th Astro Workshop
Saturday May 6th Astronomy Day Cataraqui Town Centre
Friday May 12th Paul Boltwood (RASC Ottawa) The Boltwood Observatory
Friday June 9th Peter Ceravolo (RASC Ottawa) Through the Glass Clearly Getting the most of Your Telescope
Friday July 14th John Gauvreau (RASC Hamilton)
Friday August 11th Rob Dick (RASC Ottawa) Skies over Painacota 1994 November Eclipse Trip
Friday September 8th Members Night
Friday October 13th Cathy Hall (RASC Kingston) How to Observe Meteors
Friday November 10th Denise Sabatini (RASC Kingston) Mithraic Origins
Friday December 9th Steve Manders (RASC Kingston) Solar Collisions: Their Effect on Earth

1996
Friday Jan 12th Christine Kulyk (RASC Kingston) Cinemascopic Astronomy
Friday Feb 9th Terry Hicks (RASC Kingston) Gregorian Calendars, Peggy Torney (RASC Kingston) The moon Cycle in the Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
Friday March 8th Jim Towgood (RASC Kingston) The India Eclipse
Friday April 12th David Levy (RASC Kingston) Astronomy at the Millenium the latest discoveries and what they mean
Saturday April 20th Astronomy Day Cataraqui Town Centre
Friday May 9th
Friday June 12th
Friday July 12th
Friday August 16th
Monday August 19th Charleston Lake Star Party
Friday September 13th
Friday October 11th Annual General Meeting & Elections
Friday November 8th John Baker (RASC Kingston) Fun with Astronomical Algorythms
Friday December 13th Annual Dinner & Awards (Eastside Marios). Steve Manders (RASC Kingston) Solar Winds

1997
Friday January 10th Walter Smith (RASC Kingston) Manifest Destiny or Stellar Superstition? the origins of astrogoly
Friday February 14th Dr. Vic Hughes (Queen’s) My Love of Radio Astronomy
Friday March 14th Steve Manders (RASC Kingston) Convection Currents in the Sun
Friday April 11th Members Night
Saturday April 12th Astronomy Day Cataraqui Town Centre
Friday May 09 Cathy Hall (RASC Kingston) Star Hill Inn Expedition
Friday June 13th General Assembly Preparation
Friday July 11th Dr. Jayanne English (Queen’s) Visualization in Astronomy
Friday August 15th Annual BBQ meeting at the home of Mark Kaye
Monday August 25th Charleston Lake Star Party
Friday September 12th Phil Gebhardt (Ontario DX Association) Radio Meteor Detection
Friday October 10th Annual General Meeting, elections
Friday November 14th ATM group and the Fitzgerald telescope
Friday December 12th Annual Christmas Dinner at Kelsey’s restaurant

1998
Friday January 09 CANCELLED due to Ice Storm ’98
Friday February 13 Doug George (RASC President)
Friday March 13 Kendra Angle, Tom Dean & Doug Angle (RASC Kingston)
Friday April 03 Mark Kaye (RASC Kingston) 30 years of astrophotography
Saturday May 2nd Astronomy Day 98 Cataraqui Town Centre
Friday May 08 Telescope workshop
Friday June 12 Peggy Hurley (RASC Kingston) Summer Solstice Celebrations and Traditions
Friday July 10 Laura Gagne (RASC Kingston) Black Holes, Wormholes and Time Travel
Saturday July 18th Sky is the Limit Festival Grass Creek Park
Friday August 14 Annual BBQ meeting at the home of Mark Kaye
Friday September 11 Members Night
Friday October 02 Tim Seitz (RASC Kingston) Impacts
Friday November 13 Annual General Meeting – Elections!
Saturday December 05 Annual Xmas Banquet & Awards Night at the Golden Rooster Restaurant
Friday December 11 Cancelled

1999
Friday January 8th Peter Ceravolo (RASC Ottawa) Adventures in Astrophotography: Developing and Using Modern Astrographs
Friday February 12th Leo Enright (RASC Kingston) Sky Atlases
Friday March 12th Michael Watson (RASC Treasurer) Computer Simulations
Friday April 9th John Percy (RASC Toronto) Astronomy in Ontario’s schools
Friday May 14th Prof. RN Henriksen (Queen’s) Cosmology
Saturday May 22 Astronomy Day Frontenac Mall
Friday June 22 Don Mastrianni (RASC Kingston) NASA & the Apollo program
Saturday July 03rd Sky is the Limit Festival at Lemoine Point
Friday July 9th Kendra Angle (RASC Kingston) Statistics & ATM Mirror Testing
Friday August 13th Annual BBQ meeting at the home of Mark Kaye
Friday September 10 Denise Sabatini (Unattached) : Archeoastronomy of Ancient Egypt
Friday October 1st Kendra Angle (RASC Kingston): How to Build a Telescope From Scratch
Friday November 12th : Annual General Meeting & Elections
Saturday November 27th Annual Awards Banquet at the Lasalle Travelodge Motel. Peter Ceravolo (RASC Ottawa) “Fly Me To The Stars”.
Friday December 10th Dieter Brueckner (RASC Kingston): A Tale of Two Craters – An Illustrated Tour of the Lonar Meteorite Crater in India and the Ries Basin in Germany

2000
Friday January 14th Dr. Judith Irwin (RASC Kingston): A Tale of GMRT – the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope in Pune, India
Friday February 11th Monthly Public meeting. Guest Speaker: Walter MacDonald (Kingston Centre) “A CCD Imaging Primer: Imaging Made Easy and Fun” This CCD Primer will discuss CCD imaging for the beginner, using a minimum of equipment and effort.
Friday April 14th Monthly Public Meeting. Guest Speaker: Randy Attwood (President – RASC) Topic: Sending a Spider to the Moon July 20, 1999 was the 30th anniversary of the first manned lunar landing. This talk will take a detailed look at what was involved in the design and construction of the Apollo Lunar Module.
Friday March 10th Roger Hill (Hamilton Centre) – How to build an observatory for $500
Friday May 12th Special Meeting (Monthly Public meeting moved to Stirling Hall for the Queen’s Dept of Astro Guest Speaker: Prof. Bruno Sicardy from Paris University and Observatory.
Friday June 9th Monthly Public Meeting. Guest Speaker: Ray Berg (Kingston Centre) – A Southern Odyssey This accounting of a month long journey through New Zealand, Fiji and Australia describes the author’s observations of the wondrous night skies at these locations, meeting with southern amateurs and a visit to famous Siding Springs Observatory. Comments are presented on southern variable stars observed, including recently publicized Eta Carinae. David Malin’s astrophotos obtained with the Anglo-Australian-Telescope illustrate some of the most impressive deep sky objects in the southern heavens.
Saturday July 8th – Sky is the Limit Festival – Bagot Street City Park Kingston
Friday July 14th Monthly Public Meeting. Guest Speaker: Kathy Perrett (Queen’s University) on the Queen’s New Observatory at Ellis Hall.
Friday August 11th – Markfest BBQ. Guest Speaker: Marc Castel (NYAA) on his fully robotic telescope.
Friday September 8th Monthly Public Meeting Guest Speaker: Dr. JJ Kavelaars (McMaster University) He is currently engaged in studies of the outer solar system (the Kuiper Belt), searching for more moons around the gas giants, and the use of globular star clusters as probes of galaxy formation and dark matter halos.
Friday October 13th Monthly Public Meeting Guest Speaker: Bill Broderick (Kingston) Topic: The Truth about Astrology
Friday November 10th, Annual General Meeting & Elections. David Orenstien, Chair of the National Public Education Committee about the Education; and members presentations.
Friday Dec 8th Monthly Public Meeting. Guest Speaker: Jan Wisniewski (RASC Kingston) Topic: Homebrew CCD Imaging

2001
Friday January 12th : Members presentations
Friday Feburary 9th : Guest Speaker: Dr. Bob Garrison (RASC National President) on ORIGINS: NASA’s New Program for Nearby [40 parsecs or less!] Stars
Friday March 9th: Members presentations
Friday April 6th: Guest Speaker: Alan Ward (Moonward Optics) Topic: Mirror Coatings!
Friday May 11th: Guest Speaker: Dr. DJ Saikia (Queen’s University)- active galaxies
Friday June 8th: Guest Speaker: Terry Dickinson (RASC Toronto, Skynews) Topic: “Mars 2001: Observations and Expectations.” The talk will be a brief review of observations of Mars from Schaparelli to the present. Then a more detailed section on observing Mars around its opposition this June.
Friday July 6th 8:00pm ONE WEEK EARLIER THAN NORMAL Richard Schmude (Kingston Centre) Topic: “My photoelectric magnitude study of Mars over the last 10 years”
Friday August 10th 6:00pm Annual BBQ, slides and Observing Session at the home of Mark Kaye (NO Monthly Public meeting at Queen’s University) Guest Speaker: Dr. Judith Irwin (RASC Kingston) on the new Queen’s Observatory in Ellis Hall
Friday September 14th Guest Speaker: Ken Kingdon (Kingston) Topic: Deep Sky Secrets
Friday/Saturday 2001 September 21/22 Fall’N’Stars 2001 Overnight Observing Session at VandeWater Conservation area near Thomasburg, in association with the Belleville Astronomy Club. Speakers: Joe Shields, Doug Angle, Les Dempsey, Hank Bartlett, Kevin Kell
Friday October 12 9th Annual General Meeting, elections
Friday November 9th Monthly Public Meeting. Dr. Barry Robertson (Queen’s University) Topic: Sudbury Neutrino Observatory. New time 7:30pm and new location (Stirling D)
Friday Dec 14 Monthly Public Meeting. Members Presentations

2002
2002 January 11 Friday 7:30pm : Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre D, Queens) Members Presentations
2002 February 8th Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre D, Queens) Dr. Tom Dean (RASC Kingston) “Simple Orbits”
2002 March 15 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre D, Queens) Rocky Persaud (University of Toronto) “Mars on Earth”.
2002 March 8 Friday meeting – CANCELLED
2002 April 12 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting Guest Speaker: Dr. Brian Hunter (Queen’s University) “Observing Earth Satellites”
2002 April 20 Saturday International Astronomy Day displays at the Frontenac Mall on Bath Road. First Light Ceremonies on the 24″ Venor Telescope to be held at the Murney Tower Waterfront Observing Session that evening.
Astronomy Week Monday April 15th through to Sunday April 21 Public Observing Session (always weather permitting) Sunset 19:50 edt Two observing sessions daily, solar observing from 12:10-12:50 (Monday-Friday and Sunday) and Stellar observing from: Sunset for 1.5 hours (Mon-Sun)
2002 May 10 Friday Monthly Public Meeting postponed to Monday May 13th for special guest speaker.
2002 May 13 Monday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting Stirling Hall Theatre D, Queens): Dr. David Levy (RASC Kingston Centre) “What the RASC-Tucson branch has been up to”
2002 June 14 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre D, Queens) Members Presentations and KFLA Science Fair awards.
2002 July 6 Saturday – The Sky Is The Limit Festival outreach – Kingston City Park
Friday July: Fred Barrett
2002 August 16 Friday 5:00pm Annual Members Markfest BBQ at the home of member Mark Kaye
Friday Sept 13th 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre D, Queens). Attila Danko (Ottawa Center) “How to Forecast Observing Conditions – the Sky Clock”
October
2003 November 8 Friday 7:30pm Annual General Meeting and Elections (Stirling Hall Theatre D, Queens)
2003 November 23 Saturday Annual Awards Banquet Dr. Paul Wiegert (Queen’s
University) on “Solar System Dynamics “

December

2003
January
2003 February 14 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre D, Queens) Member presentations from Doug Angle and Jan Wisniewski
2005 March 14, Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre D, Queens)
Dr. Gregg Wade (RMC) Magnetic Activity of the Sun and Stars
2003 April 11 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre D, Queens)
Dan Falk (author of Universe on a T-shirt) The Quest for the Theory of Everything
2003 May 7th Wednesday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting at Stirling Hall Theatre D. (doublebooked.. moved to Chernoff Hall Amphitheatre) Dr. David Levy- “Shakespeare’s King Lear and the Eclipses of 1605: A Cosmic Unit of Science and Art “
and three science fair student projects.
2003 May 10 Saturday Astronomy Day Display -Frontenac Mall
2003 June 13 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting at (Stirling Hall Theatre D. Queens) Rajiv Gupta (President RASC) “Astro Imaging Techniques”
2003 July 11 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting at (Stirling Hall Theatre D. Queens)
Richard Jones (RASC Kingston Centre) “Amerigo Vespucci’s Measurements of Longitude “
2003 August 8 Friday 5:00pm Annual Members Markfest BBQ at the home of member Mark Kaye
2003 September 12 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting at (Stirling Hall Theatre D. Queens)
Leo Enright (RASC Kingston) “Transits of Mercury and Venus “
2003 October 10 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting at (Stirling Hall Theatre D. Queens) – Membesr presentations
2003 November 14 Friday 7:30pm Annual General Meeting & Elections (Stirling Hall Theatre D. Queens)
2003 November 29 Saturday 6:00pm Annual Awards Banquet (Harbour Restaurant, Portsmouth Olympic Harbour). Dr. David Turner (St. Mary’s University) “Polaris in particular and Cepheids in general. “Will the North Star Stop Pulsating?”
2003 December 12 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre D. Queens)

2004
2004 January 9 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre D. Queens)
2004 February 13 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre D. Queens)
2004 March 12 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting at Stirling Hall Theatre D. Ken Kingdon (RASC Kingston) – The Texas Star Party
2004 April 10 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre D. Queens)
2004 June 11 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre D. Queens)
2004 July 9 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre D. Queens)
2004 August 13 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre D. Queens)
2004 September 10 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre D. Queens)
2004 October 9 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre D. Queens)
2004 October 27 Wednesday – Total Lunar Eclipse Outreach event (Queen’s Ellis Hall Observatory)
2004 November 12 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre D. Queens)
2004 December 10 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre D, Queens) Dr. Brian Hunter (RASC Kingston) – The Astronomical Tourist

2005
2005 Jan 7 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre D, Queens) Dr. Sun Kwok (University of Calgary) “Cosmic Butterflies: The colourful mysteries of planetary nebulae”
2005 February 11 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre D, Queens) Members Night featuring short presentations by Kim Hay, Kevin Kell, and Ken Kingdon.
2005 March 11 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre D, Queens) Melissa Ruiters (Queens) “The Globular Cluster Systems of selected Virgo Galaxies: What do they tell us?”
2005 April 8 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre D, Queens) Peter Jedicke (RASC London) “Astronomy in Hawaii: Research, Outreach, Observing – and Politics”
Friday May 02: Dr. David Levy (RASC Kingston) “I’m Dreaming Of A Moon Shadow: My Adventures With Eclipses” (special meeting in Chernoff Hall Auditorium, Queen’s U.)
2005 May 13 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre D, Queens) Laura Gagne (RASC Kingston) “Sirius dating in Egypt” and Stephen Gagne “Reading the weather for observers”
2005 June 3 Saturday Relay for Life Outreach at RMC
2005 June 10 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre D, Queens) Members Night featuring short presentations by John Hurley, Ken Kingdon, Kevin Kell, Susan Gagnon, Kim Hay, Leo Enright.
2005 July 8 Friday 7:30 pm Monthly Public Meeting(Stirling Hall Theatre D, Queens) Richard Schmude (RASC Kingston) “Photoelectric Photometry of Jupiter”
2005 July 9 Saturday The Sky Is The Limit Festival Outreach – Kingston City Park
2005 August 12 Friday Annual “MarkFest” BBQ at the home of Mark Kaye.
2005 September 9 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre D, Queens) Members Night featuring short presentations by Ken Kingdon, Dave Hunter, Doug Angle, Leslie Roberts.
2005 October 14 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre D, Queens) Ken Kingdon (RASC Kingston) “Mars – A closest approach”
2005 November 11 Friday 7:30pm Annual General Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre D, Queens)
2005 November 25 Friday 2005 “Big-Bang-Quet” Annual Awards Banquet Dr. Bryce Bennett (RMC) “Tracking Objects in Space: Orbit Determination from Kepler to CASTOR”
Friday December 9 7:30pm Paul Mortfield “The Sun and Spaceweather”

2006
2006 January 13 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre D, Queens) Walter MacDonald (RASC Kingston) “A Dome on a Home”
2006 February 10 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre D, Queens) Members presentations
2006 March 10 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre D, Queens) Dr.Bryce
Bennett- “Copernicus, Kepler and the Mystery of the Analemma”
2006 April 14 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre D, Queens) Peter McMahon (Discovery Channel): “Marshmallows on Venus: A backpacker’s guide to stargazing”
2006 May 6 Saturday – Astronomy Day – Isabel Turner Library 1-5pm
2006 May 6 Saturday Astronomy Day – Little Cataraqui Creek Consevation Area 8-10pm
2006 May 12 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre D, Queens) Harold Kenny (RMC) “Symbiotic Stars and the Nature of Radio Astronomy”.
2006 June 9 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre D, Queens) Doug Welch (University of Western Ontario) “Amateur and Professional Optical Astronomy in the 21st Century”
2006 July 14 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre D, Queens) Guy Nason “IOTA International Occultation Timings Association”
2006 August 11 Friday Members BBQ at the home of Mark Kaye
2006 September 8 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre A, Queens) Members presentations
2006 October 13 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre A, Queens) Members presentations
2006 Novermber 4 Saturday 5:00pm Holiday Dinner (Christ Church Hall, Sydenham Road) Dr Ross
Kilpatrick, Emeritus Professor of Classics, Queen’s University, “Gustav Klimt and the
Stars: A Dionysian Iconography for ‘The Kiss.’”
2006 November 10 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre A, Queens)
2006 December 8 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall Theatre A, Queens)

2007
2007 January 12 Friday 7:30pm Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling Hall, Theatre A, Queens)
Friday Sept 14 – Laura Gagné (RASC Kingston) :”Sex & Violence in the Night Sky” Stirling Hall A 7:30-10 pm.
Friday Oct 12- Dr. Ross Kilpartrick (Queens) : “Klimt’s Kiss and the Corona Borealis.” Stirling Hall “A” 7:30-10 pm. ??
Friday 9 November 7:30-10pm Stirling Hall Theater A; Annual General Meeting
Friday November 16- RASC KC Awards Banquet 5:30-10:00
Friday December 14- Stirling Hall Theatre “A” 7:30 pm-10:00 pm. Member’s night

2008
Friday 11 January 7:30-9:30 pm Lecture Theatre A, Stirling Hall
Friday 8 February 7:30-9:30 pm Lecture Theatre A, Stirling Hall
Friday 14 March 7:30-9:30 pm Lecture Theatre A, Stirling Hall Dr. Joseph Buckley (RMC) – Radarsat
Friday 11 April 7:30-9:30 pm Lecture Theatre A, Stirling Hall
Friday 09 May 7:30-9:30 pm Lecture Theatre A, Stirling Hall Members night
Friday 13 June 7:30-9:30 pm Lecture Theatre A, Stirling Hall
Friday 12 September 7:30-9:30pm Lecture Theatre A, Stirling Hall
Friday 10 October 7:30-9:30 pm Lecture Theatre A, Stirling Hall Paul Mortfield, “Remote Controlled Astrophotography”
Friday 14 November 7:30-9:30
Friday 14 November 7:30pm Lecture Theatre A, Stirling Hall Annual General Meeting
Friday 12 December 7:30pm Lecture Theatre A, Stirling Hall

2009
Friday 09 January 2009 7:30pm Lecture Theatre A, Stirling Hall
Friday, February 13, 2009 7:30-9:30 p.m. Lecture Theatre A, Stirling Hall Dr Gregg Wade (RMC) “Large Programs” that have been established at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope.
Friday, March 13 7:30-9:30 p.m. Lecture Theatre A, Stirling Hall Frank Roy, Elektra Observatories – The One Metre Initiative: A New Major Observatory in Canada
Friday, April 10, 2009 7:30-9:30 p.m. Lecture Theatre A, Stirling Hall Dr. Wolfgang Rau (Queens) The Search for Dark Matter: A New Role for Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
Friday, May 8, 2009 7:30-9:30 p.m. Lecture Theatre A, Stirling Hall Marcus Leach, Shirley’s Bay – Amateur Radio Astronomy
Friday, September 11, 2009 7:30-9:30 p.m. Lecture Theatre A, Stirling Hall Members’ Night Speakers: various Kingston Centre members.
Friday, October 9, 2009 7:30-9:30 p.m Lecture Theatre A, Stirling Hall
Friday, November 13, 2009 7:30-9:30 p.m. Lecture Theatre A, Stirling Hall
Friday, December 11, 2009 7:30-9:30 p.m Lecture Theatre A, Stirling Hall Raymond Francis, former member of ESA: A Perspective of Space Programs Beyond North America

2010
Friday, January 8, 2010 7:30-9:30 p.m. Lecture Theatre A, Stirling Hall
Friday, February 12, 2010 7:30-9:30 p.m. Lecture Theatre A, Stirling Hall Dr. Daryn Lehoux (Queen’s University Department of Classics)
The Antikythira Mechanism
Friday, March 12, 2010 7:30-9:30 p.m. Lecture Theatre A, Stirling Hall Members Night
Friday, April 9, 2010 7:30-9:30 p.m. Lecture Theatre A, Stirling Hall Members Night
Friday, May 14, 2010 7:30-9:30 p.m. Lecture Theatre A, Stirling Hall Members Night
Friday, June 11, 2010 7:30-9:30 p.m. Lecture Theatre A, Stirling Hall
Randy Attwood (RASC Mississauga) – The Apollo 11 Landing—and How It Nearly Failed
Friday September 10, 7:30 pm Lecture Theatre A, Stirling Hall Terence Dickinson (RASC Toronto) “A personal Quest for the Finest Stargazing Location in the World”
Friday, October 8, 2010 Members’ Night 7:30-9:30 p.m. Stirling Hall Theatre “A” Members’ Night – various members – Astronomy Software Demonstrations
Friday, November 12, 2010 Annual Meeting 7:30-9:30 p.m.
Friday, December 10, 2010 Members’ Night 7:30-9:30 p.m.

2011
Friday, January 14, 2011 7:30-9:30 p.m. various members 50th Anniversary Celebration!
Friday, February 11, 2011 7:30-9:30 p.m. Professor Larry Widrow (Queens)- The Tangled Past of the Andromeda and Triangulum Galaxies
Friday, March 11, 2011 7:30-9:30 p.m. All About Meteorites – Meteorite Men, Buzzard Coulee and Whitecourt episode, Kim Hay set up popcorn and chips as snacks.
Friday April 8 7:30-9:30 p.m. Larry Hum (RASC Belleville Centre) – trip with the Calgary Centre to the 2008 total solar eclipse in China, right up near the Mongolian border.
May 13 Due to construction in Stirling Hall the May meeting was scheduled to
take place at Loughborough Lake Holiday Park, 3060 Sydenham Rd. (8 km from 401 exit 613). This was to
be an outdoor, observing-oriented meeting but had to be cancelled due to bad weather.
June 11 The meeting scheduled on Wolfe Island was cancelled due to circumstances beyond our control.
Saturday, September 10, 2011 7:30 p.m. Room 324 at Ellis Hall – new dayofweek to match up with Ellis Hall observatory open house
Saturday, October 22, 2011 RASC-KC Special Meeting Kingston Public Library, 130 Johnson Street, Kingston Ontario. “So You Want To Buy a Telescope?” 2:00 p.m. Wilson Room of the Kingston Public Library’s central branch, 130 Johnson Street.
KC Banquet2 5:30 p.m. 50th Anniversary Celebrations Four Points Sheraton—Gibraltar Room Patrice Scattolin (RASC Centre Francophone de Montréal) “Space Exploration from the Ground Up: With Reality and Fiction”
Saturday, November 12, 2011 Annual Meeting 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, December 10, 2011 Regular Meeting 6:00 p.m.

2013
Saturday January 14 6pm (Ellis 324) James Silvester (Queen’s) “New analysis of stellar magnetic fields, rotational velocities and the distribution of rare elements”
Saturday February 11 6pm (Ellis 324) Member reports
Saturday March 10 6pm (Ellis 324) Member reports
Saturday April 14 6pm (Ellis 324) Member reports
Saturday May 12 7:30pm (Ellis 324) Member reports
Saturday June 09 (Ellis 324) Member reports
Monday October 15 7pm (Ellis 324) Dr. Jean-Marc A. Noël (RMC) “Everything you ever wanted to know about aurora.”
Monday November 19 7pm (Ellis 324) – Nathalie Ouellette (Queens) “NATURE VS NURTURE: THE ROLE OF THE CLUSTER ENVIRONMENT IN GALAXY EVOLUTION” her research using space-based infrared telescopes to investigate this topic as well as a recent NASA press release including her specific contribution using the Spitzer telescope.

2013
Monday January 21 7pm (Ellis 324) – Nathalie Ouellette (Queen’s) “Nature vs Nurture: The Role of the Cluster Environment in Galaxy Evolution.”
Tuesday February 19 (Ellis 324) – members reports
Monday March 18 (Ellis 324) Tom Field (Field Tested Systems – Seattle ) – remote videoconference – “You Can Almost Touch the Stars”
Tuesday May 21 (MacCorry B201) – Member reports
Monday June 03 (Ellis Auditorium) David Levy (RASC Kingston) “Visual Comet Searching: A Requiem?”
Monday June 17 (MacCorry B201) Member reports
Thursday September 12 (MacCorry B201) Member reports
Thursday October 10 (MacCorry B201) Member reports
Thursday November 14 (MacCorry B201) – AGM and Monthly Public Meeting

2014
2014 January 09 – Ellis 324, Queens -Brian Hunter (RASC Kingston) – “How to observe the March 20th occultation of Public”
2014 February 13 – Ellis 324, Queens – Dr Bruce Macintosh – “Pictures of Other Worlds: Directly Imaging Extrasolar Planets.”
2014 March 13 – Ellis 324, Queens – Dr. John Percy (U of Toronto) – “Understanding Variable Stars: How the AAVSO — and You — Can Help.”
2014 April 10 – cancelled
2014 May 08- Ellis 324, Queens – members reports
2014 June 12 – Ellis 324, Queens – members reports
2014 July, August – summer hiatus no meetings
2014 September 11 – Ellis 324, Queens – members reports
2014 October 04 – Ellis 324, Queens – Randall Rosenfeld (RASC Archivist) – “What’s in the Constellation Crater, How Newton Got 500 Bottles of Champagne, and when Halley Drank Brandy and Swore: The Surprising History of Astronomy and Alcohol.”
2014 November 13 – Anual General Meeting, Ellis 324, Queens – Member reports
2014 December – holiday dinner – no meeting

2015
2015 January 08 – Ellis 324, Queens – Member reports
2015 February 12 – Ellis 324, Queens – Rick Wagner (RASC Kingston) – “Star Doctor”
2015 March 12 – Ellis 324, Queens – Tim Sietz (RASC Kingston) – “Navaho Astronomy”
2015 April 09 – MacLachlan Woodworking Museum, County Road 2- member reports
2015 May 14 – MacCorry D209 – Malcolm Park (RASC Kingston) – “The Sky Safari app”
2015 June 11 – MacCorry D122 – member reports
2015 July, August – summer hiatus no meetings
2015 September 10 – Ellis 324, Queens – Richard Weigand (RASC Kingston)- “Isabel Williamson Lunar Observing Program Update” and Malcolm Park (RASC Kingston)- “Astrophotos from Near and Far”
2015 October 08 – Ellis 324, Queens – member reports
2015 November 12 – Annual General Meeting -Ellis 324 – member reports
2015 December – holiday dinner – no meeting

2016
2016 January 14 – Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis 324) – member reports
2016 February 11 – Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis 324) – Mike Earl (RMC) – “Adventures with the VE3RMC Amateur Satellite Communications Station”
2016 March 10 – Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis 324) – Kevin Kell (RASC Kingston) – “RASC observing programs and certificates”
2016 April 14 – cancelled
2016 May 12 – Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis 324) – Matt Shultz (Queen’s) – “The Secret World of Spectropolarimetry: How We Measure and Map the Magnetic Fields of Stars”
2016 June 09 – Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis 324) – member reports
2016 July, August – summer hiatus no meetings
2016 September 08 – Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis 324) – member reports
2016 October 13 – Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis 324) – Brian McCullough (RASC Ottawa) “Astronomical Snap Sketches”
2016 November 10 – AGM and Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis 324) – member reports
2016 December – holiday dinner – no meeting

2017
2017 January 12 – Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis 324) – member reports
2017 February 09 – Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis 324) – member reports
2017 March 09 – Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis 324) – Rob Dick (RASC Ottawa) – “Light Pollution and Scotobiology”
2017 April 13 – cancelled
2017 May 11 – Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis 324) – member reports
2017 June 08 – Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis 324) – member reports
2017 July, August – summer hiatus no meetings
2017 September 14 – Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis 324) – member reports
2017 October 12 – Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis 324) – Kevin Kell (RASC Kingston) – “From Here to There in 6 years and 6 Terabytes or How I process Planetary Images”
2017 November 09 – Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis 324) – member reports
2017 December – holiday dinner – no meeting

2018
2018 January 11 – Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling A) – Dr. Jennifer West (Dunlap Institute)- “New frontiers in radio astronomy”
2018 March 08 – Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling A) – member reports
2018 April 12 – cancelled
2018 May 10 – Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling A) – member reports
2018 June 14 – Monthly Public Meeting (Stirling A) – Nik Arora (Queen’s) – “Colours of the Universe”
2018 July, August – summer hiatus no meetings
2018 September 13 – Monthly Public Meeting (MacCorry D214) – member reports
2018 October 11 – Monthly Public Meeting (MacCorry D214) – member reports
2018 November 08 – Monthly Public Meeting (MacCorry D214) – Joe Gilker (RASC Kingston)- “getting started in wide-field astrophotography and night-time landscape photography”
2018 December Holiday Dinner – no meeting

2019
2019 January 10 – Monthly Public Meeting (MacCorry D214) – member reports
2019 February 14 – Monthly Public Meeting (MacCorry D214) – member reports
2019 March 14 – Monthly Public Meeting (MacCorry D214) – Dr Kristine Spekkens (RMC, Queens) – “Galaxies”
2019 April 11 – Monthly Public Meeting (MacCorry D214) – member reports
2019 May 09 – Monthly Public Meeting (MacCorry D214) – Brian Hunter (RASC Kingston)
2019 June 27 – Special Meeting (MacCorry D214) – member reports
2019 July, August – summer hiatus no meetings
2019 September 12 – Monthly Public Meeting (MacCorry D216) – member reports
2019 October 10 – Monthly Public Meeting (MacCorry D216) – Michael Adler (Wyoming) – Jupiter Re-Discovered
2019 November 14 – AGM & Monthly Public Meeting (MacCorry D216)
2019 December Holiday Dinner – no meeting

2020
2020 January 09 Wednesday 7:00pm- Monthly Public Meeting (MacCorry D216) – Laurie Graham (RASC Kingston) (inperson)
2020 February 13 Wednesday 7:00pm- Monthly Public Meeting (MacCorry D216) – member reports
2020 March 14 – cancelled (COVID)
2020 April 09 Wednesday 7:00pm- Monthly Public Meeting (COVID – zoom only) – Steve Craig (RASC Kingston) (remote)
2020 May 14 Wednesday 7:00pm- Monthly Public Meeting (COVID – zoom only) – Phil Groff (RASC Executive Director) – (remote)
2020 June 11 Wednesday 7:00pm- Monthly Public Meeting (COVID – zoom only) – member reports
2020 July, August – summer hiatus no meetings
2020 September 09 Wednesday 7:00pm- Monthly Public Meeting (COVID – zoom only) – Paul Gray (RASC Halifax) (remote) – “Construction of a backyard observatory! A dream realized”
2020 October 14Wednesday 7:00pm- Monthly Public Meeting (COVID – zoom only) – member reports
2020 November 11 Wednesday 7:00pm- AGM – (COVID – zoom only) –
2020 December 09 Wednesday 7:00pm- Monthly Public Meeting (COVID – zoom only) – Jenna Hinds (RASC) (remote)- “RASC Robotic Telescope”

2021
2021 January 13 Wednesday 7:00pm- Monthly Public Meeting (COVID – zoom only) – member reports
2021 February 10 Wednesday 7:00pm- Monthly Public Meeting (COVID – zoom only) – Judy Black (RASC Halifax) (remote)- “How Observant! An Introduction to Observing”
2021 March 10 Wednesday 7:00pm- Monthly Public Meeting (COVID – zoom only) – Dave Lane (RASC Halifax, Observatory Director of St. Mary’s University) (remote) – “Robotic Telescopes, Ralph (Burke-Gaffney Observatory), Little Ralph, and his own ARO (Abbey Ridge Observatory)”
2021 April 14 Wednesday 7:00pm- Monthly Public Meeting (COVID – zoom only) – Laurie Graham (RASC Kingston) (remote) – “A Tale of Two Torqued Terrestrial Bodies”
2021 May 12 Wednesday 7:00pm- Monthly Public Meeting (COVID – zoom only) – Mark Coady (RASC Kingston) (remote) – “Light Pollution Victories in Peterborough”
2021 June 09 Wednesday 7:00pm- Monthly Public Meeting (COVID – zoom only) – Dr. Doug Johnstone (National Research Council’s Herzberg Centre) (remote) – “Up All Night: Life at the Summit of Maunakea”
2021 July, August – summer hiatus no meetings
2021 September 08 Wednesday 7:00pm- Monthly Public Meeting (COVID – zoom only) – Murray Paulson (RASC Edmonton) (remote) – “My Prairie Meteorite Searches”
2021 October 13 Wednesday 7:00pm- Monthly Public Meeting (COVID – zoom only) – member reports
2021 November 10 Wednesday 7:00pm- AGM – Monthly Public Meeting (COVID – zoom only) – Susan Gagnon (RASC Kingston) (remote)- The Stealth Surprise
2021 December 08 Wednesday 7:00pm- Monthly Public Meeting (COVID – zoom only) – Alan Ward (RASC Sudbury) (remote) – “Testing of Astronomical Optics in the Computer Age”

2022
2022 January 12 Wednesday 7:00pm- Monthly Public Meeting (COVID – zoom only) – Andrew Godefroy (RASC-KC) (remote) – “Upper Atmospheric Research and the Origins of Canada’s Space Program”
2022 February 09Wednesday 7:00pm – Monthly Public Meeting (COVID – zoom only) – Dr. Jennifer West (Dunlap Institute) (remote) – “Inside the Galactic tunnel in the sky”
2022 March 09 Wednesday 7:00pm- Monthly Public Meeting (COVID – zoom only) – Marcus Leech (RASC Ottawa) (remote) – “Hunting FRBs on a budget: The SIFT telescope”
2022 April 13 Wednesday 7:00pm- Monthly Public Meeting (COVID – zoom only) – Peter Pekurar (RASC Kitchener -Waterloo) (remote) – “The Fun of Making Large Aperture Ultra-Fast Newtonians”
2022 May 11 Wednesday 7:00pm- Monthly Public Meeting (COVID – zoom only) – Richard Schmude (RASC Kingston) (remote) “May 15-16th 2022 Total Lunar Eclipse”
2022 June 08 Wednesday 7:00pm- Monthly Public Meeting (COVID – zoom only) – Rick Wagner (RASC Kingston) (remote)- “Basic Image Reduction”
2022 July, August – summer hiatus no meetings
2022 September 14 Wednesday 7:00pm- Monthly Public Meeting (COVID – zoom only) – Andrew Godefroy (RASC Kingston) (remote)- “Alouette Anniversary”
2022 October 12 Wednesday 7:00pm- Monthly Public Meeting (COVID – zoom only) – member reports
2022 November 09 Wednesday 7:00pm- AGM and Monthly Public Meeting (COVID – zoom only) – Dr. Kristine Spekkens (Royal Military College/Queen’s University) (inperson) – “Galaxies, Cosmology and the Biggest Radio Telescopes”
2022 December 14 Wednesday 7:00pm – Monthly Public Meeting (COVID – zoom only) – Rick Wagner (RASC Kingston) (inperson) – “Science with the RASC Remote Telescope”

2023
2023 January 11 Wednesday 7:00pm – Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis226 & zoom) – Scott Young (RASC Winnipeg) (remote)- “Dome at Home and Local Outreach”
2023 February 08 Wednesday 7:00pm – Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis226 & zoom) – Tim Trentadue and Joe Gilker (inperson)- “Lennox Addington Dark Sky site & Astrophotography”
2023 March 08 Wednesday 7:00pm – Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis 226 & zoom) – Laura Fissel (Queen’s University) (inperson) – “Scope on a Rope: Astronomy from the Stratosphere”
2023 April 12 Wednesday 7:00pm – Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis 226 & zoom) – Kristine Larsen (Central Connecticut State University, AAVSO Solar Section) (remote) – “Women in Astronomy: Past, Present, and Future”.
2023 May 10 Wednesday 7:00pm – Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis 226 & zoom) – Member reports
2023 June 14 Wednesday 7:00pm – Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis 226 & zoom) – Blake Nancarrow (RASC Toronto) (remote)- “Get Certified”
2023 July, August – summer hiatus no meetings
2023 September 13 Wednesday 7:00pm – Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis 226 & zoom) – Members reports
2023 October 11Wednesday 7:00pm – Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis 226 & zoom) – Stefan Jackson (RASC Kingston) (inperson) “Building a Roll off Roof Observatory: for non builders”
2023 November 08 Wednesday 7:00pm – AGM – Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis 226 & zoom)
2023 December – no meeting, holiday dinner only Mandarin restaurant

2024
2024 January 10 Wednesday 7:00pm – Monthly Public Meeting (zoom online only) – Andrea Girones (RASC Ottawa) (remote)- “Sunspots and the Aurora – how to take a picture of them!”
2024 February 14 Wednesday 7:00pm Monthly Public Meeting (zoom online only) – Mike Hanes (RASC Kingston) (inperson) – “Eclipse adventures”
2024 March 13 Wednesday 7:00pm – Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis 226) – Shelley Jackson (RASC Kingston) (inperson)- “Astrophotography – My Journey to the Dark Side”
2024 April 17 Wednesday 7:00pm – Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis 226) – member reports on total solar eclipse of April 8th
2024 May 08 Wednesday 7:00pm – Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis 226) – Dr. Sarah Sadavoy (Assistant Professor Queen’s University Dept Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy) (inperson) – “The Far-Infrared Sky: A Look Back with the Herschel Space Observatory”
2024 June 12 Wednesday 7:00pm – Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis 226) – Andreas Gada (North York Astronomical Association) (inperson) – “Remote DSLR Imaging System”
2024 July, August – summer hiatus no meetings
2024 September 11 Wednesday 7:00pm – Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis 226) RASC-KC Members “What I did last summer”
2024 October 09 Wednesday 7:00pm – Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis 226) – Roger Hill (RASC Kingston) (inperson) “Optics and Telescopes”
2024 November 13 Wednesday 7:00pm AGM and Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis 226) – Tim Trentadue (L&A Dark Sky Viewing Area, RASC-KC) (inperson) – “What’s happening at L&A dark sky viewing area”
2024 December – no meeting, holiday dinner only Mandarin restaurant

2025
2025 January 08 Wednesday 7:00pm Monthly Public meeting (zoom online only) Mike Karakas (RASC Winnipeg) (remote) – “Traveling for Planetary Imaging”
2025 February 12 Wednesday 7:00pm Monthly Public meeting (zoom online only) Alan Dyer (remote)- “Cosmic Connections: How the Moon and Stars Made Earth And Life Possible”
2025 march 12 Wednesday 7:00pm Monthly Public Meeting (zoom online only) David Chapman (RASC Halifax) (remote)- “Celestrial Birds: Lore and Observing”
2025 April 09 Wednesday 7:00pm Monthly Public Meeting (Zoom online only) Jeff Booth (RASC Toronto) (remote)- “Aurora”
2025 May 14 Wednesday 7:00pm Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis 226) Prof John Moores (York University) (inperson) – “Daydreaming in the Solar System”
2025 June 11 Wednesday 7:00pm Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis Hall 226) Jenna Hines (RASC Executive Director) (inperson) – “The state of the RASC”
2025 July, August – summer hiatus no meetings
2025 september 10 Wednesday 7:00pm Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis Hall 319) – RASC-KC Members “What I did last summer”
2025 october 08 Wednesday 7:00pm Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis Hall 226) – Stefan Jackson (RASC Kingston) (inperson) – Processing Ha Images of the Sun”
2025 November 12 Wednesday 7:00pm AGM and Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis Hall 226) – Steve Mallia (Ontario Telescopes) (inperson) – “New telescope equipment and accessories”
2025 December – no meeting, holiday dinner only Mandarin restaurant

2026
2026 January 13 Wednesday 7:00pm Monthly Public Meeting (online only- due to potential bad weather) – Dr. Gerald Schieven (Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Centre in Victoria) – “Observing the Cold Universe with ALMA”
2026 February 11 Wednesday 7:00pm Monthly Public Meeting (online only- due to potential bad weather) – Felix Thiel (Queen’s University) on “Observing Black Holes from the Stratosphere “
2026 April 08 Wednesday 7:00pm Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 226, Queen’s University). Dr. Danielle Simkus (Queen’s University) Topic: The Building Blocks of Life Beyond Earth
2026 March 11 Wednesday 7:00pm Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis Hall 226) – Laurie Graham (RASC Kingston): “Pretty Pictures From the James Webb Space Telescope: The telescope and the science behind the images”
2026 May 13 Wednesday 7:00pm Monthly Public Meeting (Macintosh-Corry Hall Room B201, Queen’s University) Mike Hanes (RASC-KC) “Astronomy in Arizona.”
2026 June 10th Wednesday 7:00pm Monthly Public Meeting (Macintosh-Corry Hall Room B201, Queen’s University) Andrea Girones “First principles of Astrophotography”
2026 July, August – summer hiatus no meetings
2026 September 9 Wednesday 7:00pm Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 226, Queen’s University) RASC-KC Members “What I did last summer”
2026 October 14 Wednesday 7pm Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis Hall Room 226 Queens University). James Barron (PhD Candidate, Queens) “The Lives of Magnetic Massive Stars”
2026 November 11 Wednesday 7:00pm AGM and Monthly Public Meeting (Ellis Hall 226) –
2026 December – no meeting, holiday dinner only Mandarin restaurant