{"id":332,"date":"2009-01-20T12:19:14","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T17:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=332"},"modified":"2010-10-21T09:57:43","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T14:57:43","slug":"iya-kickoff1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2009\/01\/iya-kickoff1\/","title":{"rendered":"IYA Kickoff1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the evening of Friday January 9th, 2009 the RASC-Kingston Centre held an International Year of Astronomy kickoff lecture in Stirling Hall.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20090110-01b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20090110-01b.jpg\" alt=\"20090110-01b\" title=\"20090110-01b\" width=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-333\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe very next night we held a public observing session at the Queen&#8217;s University Ellis Hall Observatory but got clouded out.  As a kickoff event we had a talk on Galileo by Dr. Judith Irwin with a visit from Galileo and Cardinal Barberini <a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20090110-20b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20090110-20b.jpg\" alt=\"20090110-20b\" title=\"20090110-20b\" width=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-334\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAlong with our Kingston City Mayor Harvey Rosen reading the City Proclamation of IYA Kickoff Week.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20090110-25b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20090110-25b.jpg\" alt=\"20090110-25b\" title=\"20090110-25b\" width=\"100\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-335\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nWe closed out the kickoff week with a talk by Dr. Sara Seagher (MIT) on Exoplanets at the Royal Military College Currie Hall, a day after originally scheduled due to a widespread power outage.<a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20090114-09b1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20090114-09b1.jpg\" alt=\"20090114-09b1\" title=\"20090114-09b1\" width=\"200\"  class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-342\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the evening of Friday January 9th, 2009 the RASC-Kingston Centre held an International Year of Astronomy kickoff lecture in Stirling Hall. The very next night we held a public observing session at the Queen&#8217;s University Ellis Hall Observatory but got clouded out. As a kickoff event we had a talk on Galileo by Dr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","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=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}