{"id":6754,"date":"2016-02-12T11:06:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T15:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=6754"},"modified":"2016-02-12T11:18:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T15:18:37","slug":"rasckingston-centre-met-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2016\/02\/rasckingston-centre-met-last-night\/","title":{"rendered":"RASC Kingston Centre met last night"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6755\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6755\" style=\"width: 271px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20160211_202242crop-271x299.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Earl\" width=\"271\" height=\"299\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20160211_202242crop-271x299.jpg 271w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20160211_202242crop-136x150.jpg 136w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20160211_202242crop-768x847.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20160211_202242crop-928x1023.jpg 928w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20160211_202242crop.jpg 1664w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6755\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Earl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/kingston.rasc.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Kingston Astronomy Club (aka The RASC Kingston Centre)<\/a> met last night at Queen&#8217;s University.  Our guest speaker was Mike Earl, a graduate student at the Royal Military College.  Mike spoke on amateur radio as related to satellites and much of his talk touched on satellite passes and observing satellites, albeit by radio.<\/p>\n<p>Mike is seen here with his speaker gift, a meteorite from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whitecourt_crater\" target=\"_blank\">Whitecourt Alberta impact<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.castor2.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Mike&#8217;s website: www.castor2.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rose-Marie entertained us with images of walking dead astronomers in the near future, Rick on building telescope controls with a soldering iron and one hand tied behind his back, and Kevin on a variety of subjects from computers outside in the cold to the new <a href=\"\/supersid\/\">Supersid installation<\/a> to what to do with a rolloff observatory when the telescope is not cooperating.<\/p>\n<p>Door prizes consisted of three James Bond DVD&#8217;s and two David Weber books.<\/p>\n<p>The March meeting will feature member Richard Weigand on his Isabel Williams Lunar Observing Program&#8230; Completion!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kingston Astronomy Club (aka The RASC Kingston Centre) met last night at Queen&#8217;s University. Our guest speaker was Mike Earl, a graduate student at the Royal Military College. Mike spoke on amateur radio as related to satellites and much of his talk touched on satellite passes and observing satellites, albeit by radio. Mike is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6754"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6761,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754\/revisions\/6761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}