{"id":427,"date":"2011-12-03T19:24:14","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T22:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/?p=427"},"modified":"2011-12-05T19:20:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T22:20:37","slug":"10-december-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/?p=427","title":{"rendered":"Winter Solstice\/Christmas Meeting &#8211;  December  10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We will meet at 7 pm in the meeting house at 475 Bluff Road in Avonport (Not at Acadia U.)<br \/>\n<strong>Starry Nights and Mountain Bikes? A Dark-Sky Preserve Party at Jasper National Park<\/strong><br \/>\nby<strong> Mary Lou Whitehorne &#8211; <\/strong>President of\u00a0 the RASC<br \/>\nSummmary: At the invitation (and expense) of Tourism Jasper, I traveled to Jasper National Park to participate in the Park&#8217;s Dark Sky Media and VIP declaration celebration on 1 October, 2011. This 40-minute talk gives an account of the event, including aboriginal participation and sky lore, and a brief overview of the RASC&#8217;s dark-sky preserve program and its successful and growing partnership with Parks Canada. My presentation will wrap up with a quick look at Jasper National Park&#8217;s dark-sky sites, and a short detour into other interesting Park locations.<\/p>\n<p>(Refreshments and conversation following)<br \/>\n(RASC\u00a0 = Royal Astronomical Society of Canada)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We will meet at 7 pm in the meeting house at 475 Bluff Road in Avonport (Not at Acadia U.) Starry Nights and Mountain Bikes? A Dark-Sky Preserve Party at Jasper National Park by Mary Lou Whitehorne &#8211; President of\u00a0 the RASC Summmary: At the invitation (and expense) of Tourism Jasper, I traveled to Jasper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy-talk","category-activities-in-astronomy-related-to-mag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","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=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}