{"id":835,"date":"2013-10-15T09:33:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T12:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/?p=835"},"modified":"2013-10-15T09:33:53","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T12:33:53","slug":"october-meeting-19th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/?p=835","title":{"rendered":"October Meeting &#8211; 19th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Saturday, October 19, 7 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Speaker:<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> Paul Gray<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Topic:<\/strong> Dark Nebulae: Observing and Imaging<\/p>\n<p>For over 12 years Paul Gray has observed and recently began imaging<br \/>\ncountless dark nebulae. Looking for dark nebulae is about as<br \/>\ndisconcerting as fumbling for the light switch in a dark guest room!<br \/>\nPaul will share his knowledge on how to observe and image these dark<br \/>\nsilhouettes in the night sky.<\/p>\n<p>Paul has been a member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada<br \/>\nfor 26 years, having joined as a youth. In that time he has been a<br \/>\nmember of the Halifax and New Brunswick Centres. He has served as a<br \/>\nmember of council in both centres in a number of roles, including<br \/>\nPresident of the New Brunswick Centre. Now he serves as a member of<br \/>\nthe Board of Directors of the national RASC.<\/p>\n<p>For several years in Halifax he was a volunteer speaker at the<br \/>\nHalifax Planetarium. Within the RASC he has been a strong supporter<br \/>\nof public outreach and education. While a member of the New Brunswick<br \/>\nCentre he was a driving force behind the creation of the Mt. Carleton<br \/>\nand Kouchibouguac Dark Sky Preserves, the first in the Atlantic<br \/>\nprovinces.<\/p>\n<p>He enjoys spending time under the night sky with his telescopes, both<br \/>\nvisually looking for faint fuzzies as well as dark nebulae, and<br \/>\nimaging the sky. His other passion has been hunting for supernovae,<br \/>\ndistant, massive stars exploding at the end of their lives. This last<br \/>\nventure has rubbed off on his children, with Nathan and Kathryn both<br \/>\nnow searching, Kathryn having found her first in late 2010.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meeting Place:<\/strong> Avonport, 475 Bluff Road<\/p>\n<p>When you arrive for the MAG meeting:<br \/>\nUse the parking lot at #475, and if that is full, park at my home<br \/>\nnext door (#465), not along the Bluff Road. If you do park next door,<br \/>\nthere is a new, shorter route from your car to the meeting: a gravel<br \/>\npath that begins beside my garage. After dark, the path has lights<br \/>\nalong it. No need to walk on the Bluff Road!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, October 19, 7 p.m. Speaker: Paul Gray Topic: Dark Nebulae: Observing and Imaging For over 12 years Paul Gray has observed and recently began imaging countless dark nebulae. Looking for dark nebulae is about as disconcerting as fumbling for the light switch in a dark guest room! Paul will share his knowledge on how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities-in-astronomy-related-to-mag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","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=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836,"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}