The speaker at our September meeting will be Murray Paulson and he will be talking about “Meteorites and Hunting for Meteorites”. The meeting will be held at the Sechelt Library on Sept. 9th starting at 7 pm. We will of course be covering all our usual monthly topics too. Everyone is welcome, members and non-members.

To join by Zoom, please use this link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85984949971

The astronomy club will have its booth at the Sunshine Coast Botanical Garden “Harvest Festival” on Sunday, September 4^th from 11 am to 3 pm. We will have our solar telescopes set up and we’ll be explaining how it is possible to look at the sun safely as well as letting you look for yourself. Club members will be on hand to explain what the astronomy club does and the facilities we have.

Taking advantage of good daytime seeing again for some close-up observing of the sun! This image was taken of the Chromosphere on July 25th at about noon and gives a close-up of the dancing, swirling Spicules that rise up from the Photosphere. This image is of an area above a decaying active region, the Photosphere details are being hidden behind the dense blanket of spicules.

The image was taken with a Hydrogen alpha filter, on a monochrome camera and coloured later.

Michael