{"id":4534,"date":"2013-05-14T15:25:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T19:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=4534"},"modified":"2013-05-14T15:26:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T19:26:48","slug":"david-levy-speaking-tour-kingston-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2013\/05\/david-levy-speaking-tour-kingston-event\/","title":{"rendered":"David Levy Speaking Tour Kingston Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/00051.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/00051.jpg\" alt=\"00051\" width=\"100\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4535\" \/><\/a>Join us this spring when eight centres of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasc.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC)<\/a> will host a rare lecture tour by famous astronomer and comet discoverer David H. Levy.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jarnac.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">David H. Levy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Title: Visual Comet Searching: A Requium?<\/p>\n<p>Event Date:  Monday 2013 June 3rd<\/p>\n<p>Event Time: 8:00pm (doors open at 7:30 pm)<\/p>\n<p>Location: Ellis Hall Auditorium, 58 University Avenue, Queen\u2019s University, Kingston Ontario<\/p>\n<p>The auditorium is accessible with a ramp at the front entrance.<\/p>\n<p>Admission: No Charge<\/p>\n<p>Parking available on Queen\u2019s University surface parking lots (Mac-Corry Lot is the nearest)<\/p>\n<p>Program:<br \/>\nWelcome from the RASC Kingston Centre &#8211; Ruth Hicks<br \/>\nIntroduction of the Speaker: Terence Dickinson<br \/>\nDavid Levy: Visual Comet Searching: A Requium?<br \/>\nBook Signing to follow (Bring your favourite David Levy book!)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;background&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>David H. Levy (born May 22, 1948) is a Canadian astronomer and science writer most famous for his co-discovery in 1993 of <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Comet_Shoemaker%E2%80%93Levy_9\" target=\"_blank\">Comet Shoemaker\u2013Levy 9<\/a>, which collided with the planet Jupiter in 1994.<br \/>\nLevy was born in Montreal, Canada. As a child, he became enchanted by the night sky, with a special love of comets. He received his B.A. degree from Acadia University, in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, in 1972, and his M.A. degree in English literature from Queen&#8217;s University at Kingston, Ontario, in 1979.<\/p>\n<p>David graduated B.A. (English) from Acadia University in 1972 and M.A. (English) from Queen&#8217;s University in 1979<\/p>\n<p>David has been awarded five honorary doctorate degrees, one each from Queen&#8217;s University (1994), Acadia University (1995), McGill University (2003), University of Tampa (2004), and State University of New York, Plattsburgh (2005)\t<\/p>\n<p>David is Honorary President of the <a href=\"http:\/\/kingston.rasc.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Kingston Centre<\/a> and of the Montreal Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us this spring when eight centres of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) will host a rare lecture tour by famous astronomer and comet discoverer David H. Levy. Speaker: David H. Levy Title: Visual Comet Searching: A Requium? Event Date: Monday 2013 June 3rd Event Time: 8:00pm (doors open at 7:30 pm) Location: [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4534","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=4534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}