{"id":5775,"date":"2014-06-13T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T10:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=5775"},"modified":"2014-06-13T10:46:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T14:46:04","slug":"kingston-astronomy-club-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2014\/06\/kingston-astronomy-club-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingston Astronomy Club meeting"},"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><br \/>\nThe RASC-Kingston Centre met last night (Thursday June 12th) from 19:00-21:15 in Ellis Hall Room 324 at Queen&#8217;s University in Kingston.<\/p>\n<p>Introduction were made, announcements and discussion about the national RASC organization, upcoming astronomical events and then we launched into two presentations from members:<br \/>\nRichard Weigand on his foray into the Isabel Williamson Lunar Observing Certificate Program and<br \/>\nHank Bartlett on his recent experiences in the southern hemisphere astronomy and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Machu_Picchu\" target=\"_blank\">Machu Pichu in Peru<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Following that were presentations on The Torus Project, the RMC project, and members observing reports including ones from Susan Gagnon, Bruce Elliott, Rose-Marie Burke and myself.<\/p>\n<p>Refreshments were available during the break along with a small swap meet.<br \/>\nA good meeting and a good visit with you all! A reminder that there will be no meetings in July and August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RASC-Kingston Centre met last night (Thursday June 12th) from 19:00-21:15 in Ellis Hall Room 324 at Queen&#8217;s University in Kingston. Introduction were made, announcements and discussion about the national RASC organization, upcoming astronomical events and then we launched into two presentations from members: Richard Weigand on his foray into the Isabel Williamson Lunar Observing [&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-5775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775","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=5775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}