Sixth Annual RASCALS Star Party 2006

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May 26-28, 2006

held at Victoria Fish and Game Association
Holker Place, Malahat, BC, Canada
(near the Summit - see map below)

A New Moon weekend!

RASCALS Star Party 2006 Poster (79k pdf)

Our Fifth Annual Star Party was a great success, so here we go again! This year we held the RASCALs Star Party in May instead of September. Gates will open at 12pm noon on Friday. There is lots of space on the field for camping - you won't find any crowding here! You don't even have to cook at the RASCALs Star Party, since we have on-site catering available for all meals (at modest additional cost).

Cost: $20 single and $25 couple or family (max 4 children under age 21).   Entrance Fee included a ticket for door prize draws each day, all lectures and workshops, and camping on site.

RASCALs Star Party 2006 t-shirtOrder your RASCALs Star Party t-shirts through our online store.  Camp on the field with your telescope.  Power for telescope-related equipment only.  See Facilities for further details

Door prizes were generously provided by our sponsors: Island Eyepiece and Telescope, Celestron, Tele Vue, Vixen, Sky Instruments, Olivon Telescopes, Victoria Centre RASC, Richly Maintained Services, and JoeTourist InfoSystems.  We expect a great line-up of prizes again this year. You can buy additional draw prize tickets for $5 up to draw time. Main Door prize for Saturday evening is a pair of Celestron 20x80 binoculars!

As part of your family entry of $25, parents will receive 1 ticket for a chance on main door prizes, and every child (under 15 yrs or so) with them will receive a kid's ticket for our special childrens' draw.  We have 2 kids' telescopes and various prizes for the little ones...

Schedule of Events (subject to change)

Friday 26th:

bullet12:00pm noon til dark - gates open, arrivals
bullet5:00pm-6:30pm - Dinner time
 

7:00pm - Presentation - "The Virgo Cluster: New Views from the Hubble Space Telescope" by Dr. Patrick C�t�, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Victoria

The Virgo Cluster of galaxies is the dominant mass concentration in the local universe and by far the largest collection of old, gas-poor (early-type) galaxies within 50 Mpc. During the past few years, my colleagues and I have been carrying out the definitive imaging survey of these galaxies using images from the Advanced Camera for Surveys on board the Hubble Space Telescope. In this talk, I will give a brief overview of the survey, and discuss some of exciting -- and unexpected -- results on the central structure of these old galaxies.  The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey

Friday 26th cont'd:

bullet8:00pm - Door prizes
bullet8:30 pm Viewing the night sky - oh well, the weather didn't cooperate!

 


Dr. Patrick C�t� - "Really, it's THIS big!"
Bruno Quenneville thanking Dr. Patrick C�t� for his presentation,
Bruno Quenneville presenting to a kids prize winner.

Bruno Quenneville presenting to a kids prize winner.
Kids Grand Prize Winner

 

Saturday 27th:

bullet8-10am - breakfast time
bulletSolar viewing - all day
bullet1:00 pm - Astronomy Swap Meet
bullet2:00 pm - Workshop - "Digital Astrophotography" by David Lee and Joe Carr
bullet5:00pm-7:00pm - Dinner time

7:00 pm - Presentation - "A closer look at some familiar Messier objects" by Dr. Brenda Matthews, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Victoria

Dr. Matthews talked about what's going on in different areas of M42, M82 etc.

bullet8:00pm - Door prizes - including our grand prize draw - Celestron 20x80 binoculars!
bullet8:30 pm - Viewing the night sky till dawn - oh well, the weather didn't cooperate!

Sunday 28th:

bullet8:00 am Breakfast
bullet9:30 am Site Cleanup - thanks go to those who stay to help with the site cleanup
bullet12 noon - early departures please!

 


Bruno Quenneville, John Love, Ule, ?, Charles Banville on the field during one of the brief bright moments in the afternoon weather
Vehicles and tents on the field
Dr. Brenda Matthews having dinner with the RASCALs

Our caterer Brenda with her family taking a well deserved break
John McDonald, David Lee, Joe Carr, and David Luttman - discussing astrophotography, no doubt!
Bruno Quenneville presenting a prize
to Martin Shepherd

Moe Raven, John Love, Sid Sidhu trading lies
Jim Hesser assisting Bruno with the Kid's Prize draw
Our Tele Vue prize winner is very happy

Bruno Quenneville introducing Dr. Brenda Matthews
Bruno Quenneville presenting the Celestron grand prize to Ed		  
     
     

 

 

 

 

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