{"id":5494,"date":"2014-02-14T11:15:02","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T15:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=5494"},"modified":"2014-02-14T11:16:20","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T15:16:20","slug":"the-kingston-astronomy-club-met","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2014\/02\/the-kingston-astronomy-club-met\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kingston Astronomy Club met"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/rasckccolorlogo2012oct14-200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/rasckccolorlogo2012oct14-200.jpg\" alt=\"rasckccolorlogo2012oct14-200\" width=\"200\" height=\"198\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/rasckccolorlogo2012oct14-200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/rasckccolorlogo2012oct14-200-150x148.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada \u2013 Kingston Centre met last night, Thursday 2014 February 13th in Ellis Hall Room 324 at Queen\u2019s University.<br \/>\nWe finally returned to  our regular room in Ellis Hall Room 324 by construction occurring over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>Our Guest Speaker: Dr. Bruce Macintosh (Stanford University and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California) spoke on<br \/>\n&#8220;Pictures of Other Worlds: Directly Imaging Extrasolar Planets&#8221;<br \/>\nwith the Gemini Telescope (South) (Chile).<br \/>\nNot only are they directly imaging extrasolar planets, they are commissioning a $24 million instrument that can take spectra of the planets, indicating atmospheric composition.  Amazing!<\/p>\n<p>Other presentations from:<br \/>\nBrian Hunter: 163 Erigone<br \/>\nRichard Wagner: 163 Erigone<br \/>\nRichard Wiegand: Luna 3<br \/>\nBruce Elliott: Depot Lakes<\/p>\n<p>The meeting adjourned at 9:20 pm and all in all it was a good meeting with a good turnout of 30 people, many of which we have not seen in some time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada \u2013 Kingston Centre met last night, Thursday 2014 February 13th in Ellis Hall Room 324 at Queen\u2019s University. We finally returned to our regular room in Ellis Hall Room 324 by construction occurring over the past year. Our Guest Speaker: Dr. Bruce Macintosh (Stanford University and the Lawrence Livermore [&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-5494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494","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=5494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}