{"id":2566,"date":"2012-03-12T12:48:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T16:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=2566"},"modified":"2012-03-16T12:59:49","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T16:59:49","slug":"kaon-public-observing-session-2012-march-10th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2012\/03\/kaon-public-observing-session-2012-march-10th\/","title":{"rendered":"KAON Public Observing Session 2012 March 10th"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We held the March Kingston Astronomy Outreach Network (KAON) session with the Queens Observatory Open house Saturday night from 7:30-9:00pm EST.
\nDr. Kristine Spekkens (Royal Military College) gave the 7:35-8:15 talk on “Cold Astronomy” to a crowd of 50-60 people. Some missed the talk and were out on the deck with us under intermittent and ever changing cloud cover.<\/p>\n

Doug Angle ran the Fitzgerald telescope and Terry Bridges ran the
\nQueen’s 8″ LX200 in manual mode. Nathalie opened up the dome for small
\ngroup tours up there as well.<\/p>\n

We had lots of great discussions with a lot of interested people and
\nshould see a few more attend our April Royal Astronomical Society of Canada – Kingston Centre (RASC-KC) meeting.<\/p>\n

Targets of opportunity were: Venus, Jupiter, Mars, M42 in Orion.
\nThe cloud cover was nasty at times. Before 7:30 we actually put the
\nscopes away as we were expecting total cloud out, but then it cleared.
\nIt was cold.. maybe -5 with a good wind.<\/p>\n

With great expectations of clearing after we got home to do some
\nobserving.. it turned out to be too long of a day. Even forgot that
\nwhole changing the clocks thing.
\nWe passed out over 40 Moon Gazer Guides.<\/p>\n

Thanks to all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We held the March Kingston Astronomy Outreach Network (KAON) session with the Queens Observatory Open house Saturday night from 7:30-9:00pm EST. Dr. Kristine Spekkens (Royal Military College) gave the 7:35-8:15 talk on “Cold Astronomy” to a crowd of 50-60 people. Some missed the talk and were out on the deck with us under intermittent and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}