{"id":1019,"date":"2015-02-12T02:35:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T05:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2015-02-12T02:35:06","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T05:35:06","slug":"february-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/?p=1019","title":{"rendered":"February Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker<\/strong>: Paul Gray<br \/>\n<strong>This Saturday, February 14,  7 p.m.<br \/>\nAvonport, 475 Bluff Road <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Topic<\/strong>:  20 Years of Supernova Hunting<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong><br \/>\nIn 1994 two amateur astronomers from Nova Scotia decided to compete with the professional observatories and hunt for supernovae. At a time when only a few dozen had ever been found by amateurs and none had been found from Canada, it was no small task and would be the beginning of a long and eventful journey, both technological and involving a growing family. What started as a simple idea to find a supernova turned into a grand journey. Paul will highlight much of this during the talk and bring us to current day through what is considered to be the golden age of amateur astronomy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Paul Gray This Saturday, February 14, 7 p.m. Avonport, 475 Bluff Road Topic: 20 Years of Supernova Hunting Summary: In 1994 two amateur astronomers from Nova Scotia decided to compete with the professional observatories and hunt for supernovae. At a time when only a few dozen had ever been found by amateurs and none [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020,"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}