The meeting will be on the 17th a week later because of the Thanksgiving Weekend is the 10-12 of October.<\/p>\n
To avoid a conflict with a not-to-be-missed astronomy talk in Halifax, MAG is joining with the RASC Halifax Centre as our MAG meeting.<\/p>\n
The October meeting of the RASC Halifax Centre will be attendance at a special presentation St Mary\u2019s University on<\/p>\n
The presentation by the noted astronomer Dr. Alex Filippenko<\/strong><\/p>\n The Halifax Centre has been invited to participate by SMU and we will have a table and display set up in the ante room of the McNally to provide information to the public about the Centre and RASC and share our interest in astronomy. We will set up some telescopes for display and will also offer viewing outside the McNally after the presentation. Volunteers to man the table and bring some scopes are requested \u2013 please contact Paul Gray <snpgray@gmail.com>. It will be a fun evening!<\/p>\n Dr. Alex Filippenko will be the guest speaker for the inaugural Dan MacLennan Memorial Lecture on Saturday, October 17 at 7:00 pm in Saint Mary\u2019s McNally Theatre Auditorium. One of the world’s most highly cited astronomers, Dr. Filippenko was a member of both teams that revealed the accelerating expansion of the Universe, a discovery that earned team leaders the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, and team members the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. Winner of UC Berkeley\u2019s most prestigious teaching awards, and voted \u201cBest Professor\u201d on campus a record nine times, Dr. Filippenko has produced five astronomy video courses, co-authored an award-winning astronomy textbook, and appeared in more than 100 television documentaries.<\/p>\n Dr. Filippenko\u2019s lecture Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe is the first in a series of annual astronomy lectures established by the MacLennan family to celebrate lifelong learning and the joy of discovery. After his retirement, Dan MacLennan attended astronomy classes at Saint Mary\u2019s and discovered a new world view through the lens of Saint Mary\u2019s University\u2019s telescope. Using a camera purchased to photograph goldfinches and an old telescope from his target-shooting days, MacLennan captured high-quality images of sun spots and presented his work at the annual gathering of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile Dan was a reserved man who shunned the limelight, he quietly showed leadership in many of his life endeavours,\u201d says Oriel MacLennan, Dan MacLennan\u2019s daughter-in-law. \u201cHe enormously valued his time at Saint Mary’s and the opportunities presented him. This inaugural lecture, stellar indeed, would have been a source of quiet gratification for him. We are happy to help in advancing this cause.\u201d<\/p>\n To follow the lead of the MacLennan family in fanning the flames of scientific discovery, after the lecture concludes, guests are invited to enjoy refreshments and view the night sky from telescopes set up on the front lawn of the McNally Theatre Auditorium (weather permitting). Students and professors from Saint Mary\u2019s Department of Astronomy and Physics and members of the Royal Astronomical Society (Halifax Chapter) will be available to answer questions.<\/p>\n “We are very excited to host this event and to have Alex Filippenko as a guest on campus,” says Dr. Marcin Sawicki, Department Chair and professor in Saint Mary’s Department of Astronomy and Physics. \u201cWe appreciate the generosity of the MacLennan family in making this possible. I can’t think of a better tribute to Dan MacLennan\u2019s passion for learning about the universe than a lecture series that, each year, will see world-leading astronomers giving public talks at Saint Mary\u2019s University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The meeting will be on the 17th a week later because of the Thanksgiving Weekend is the 10-12 of October. To avoid a conflict with a not-to-be-missed astronomy talk in Halifax, MAG is joining with the RASC Halifax Centre as our MAG meeting. 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