After 2-3 years of attempts, this snapshot of the full moon may be finally the image I was looking for.
No other combination of telescope, camera lens, and camera gave me the full disk and for the requirements of the certificate, no processing was allowed.
This was taken with a 600mm Focal Length refractor, exposed for 2.9ms and focused manually.
Science Rendezvous Kingston is an educational outreach event led by Queen’s University. This year again it was held in the downtown area, recently renamed to the Slush Puppy Place, on Saturday 2024 May 11th.
“Southeastern Ontario’s largest free family science fair is back on Saturday, May 11, and organizers are busily readying Slush Puppie Place in Kingston to host thousands of parents and children.
Science Rendezvous Kingston’s theme this year is “Innovate,” and there will be no shortage of demonstrations of Canadian innovation on display inside and outside Kingston’s prominent downtown stadium venue. ”
More than 5,300 individuals attended the event in 2023, which was facilitated by 430 volunteers. Last year’s Science Rendezvous won the Steam Green award from its national parent organization, in recognition of some of the special environmental and cultural projects that the Science Rendezvous Kingston crew produced that year.
The RASC Kingston Centre had 8 volunteers this year and I would like to thank them all for a great outreach event!
We ran out of many handouts including stickers, space cards and colouring handouts.
The event was opened by the Award winning Kingston Town Crier, Chris Whyman and also some words from politicians 🙁
We had four solar telescopes that people could look through or see on the projected display.
The attendance was amazing!
The first major aurora we have seen since 2023 March 23… it’s been a long time.
This is the allsky1 camera footage in the form of a video
A partial startrail from the night.. we had a lot of cloud…
and lastly the keogram of the night, a slice through each image over time.
This website was brought to our attention and it a great aid in planning to image minor planets!
https://doncarona.tamu.edu/apps/minorbody/opposition/
https://kingston.rasc.ca/asteroids
The following RASC-KC members and past members who have had Minor Planets named after them for their contributions to astronomy, as well as those related to Kingston and Queen’s University
14 Upcoming oppositions (the best time to image) sorted by date
20240616 minor planet 3269 vibert-douglas at opposition mag 17.5
20240708 minor planet 3673 levy at opposition mag 16.5
20240710 minor planet 20022 dontown at opposition mag 19.6
20240716 minor planet 9070 ensab at opposition mag 16.9
20240903 minor planet 20021 kevinkell at opposition mag 17.5
20241011 minor planet 273987 greggwade at opposition mag 21.4
20241024 minor planet 5272 dickinson at opposition mag 16.0
20241028 minor planet 6115 martinduncan at opposition mag 15.7
20241219 minor planet 5457 queen’s at opposition mag 16.5
20250126 minor planet 10062 kimhay at opposition mag 18.3
20250221 minor planet 10076 rogerhill at opposition mag 18.7
20250228 minor planet 5424 covington at opposition mag 16.0
20250507 minor planet 10065 greglisk at opposition mag 16.7
20250721 minor planet 22426 mikehanes at opposition mag 18.5