{"id":839,"date":"2013-11-06T21:45:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T00:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/?p=839"},"modified":"2013-11-06T21:53:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T00:53:47","slug":"november-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/?p=839","title":{"rendered":"November meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Where:<\/strong> 475 Bluff Road, Avonport, N.S.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong> Saturday, Nov 09 at 7 pm AST<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker #1: Nathan Gray<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Topic: My Supernova Discovery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nathan Gray is a family member of the RASC through his father Paul<br \/>\nGray. Nathan has been looking to the sky since he was a young boy<br \/>\nattending summer star parties at camping weekends with his parents.<br \/>\nHe has attended the Mount Carleton Star Party twice, the Dam Star<br \/>\nParty near Fredericton 6 times, Starfest in Ontario twice, Nova East<br \/>\nthree times, and one General Assembly of the RASC. He enjoys looking<br \/>\nat the Milky Way and constellations in the night sky, and more<br \/>\nrecently began supernova hunting. Having seen his sister search for<br \/>\nand find a supernova, Nathan has wanted to do the same, with his<br \/>\nsights set on her world age record for discovering a supernova. Last<br \/>\nweek (October 30th), after several months of searching, Nathan found<br \/>\nhis first supernova at the age of 10 years, 9 days, beating his<br \/>\nsister by more than 30 days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker #2: Roy Bishop<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Topic: Comet ISON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Comet ISON is presently near the orbit of Venus and diving toward the<br \/>\nSun. No one knows if ISON, a Sun-grazer, will survive its perihelion<br \/>\npassage on November 28, and if it does survive, how bright it will<br \/>\nappear in our dawn sky in early December. By our next meeting<br \/>\n(December 14) we will know whether &#8220;The Great Comet of 2013&#8221; hype was<br \/>\njustified. Roy will describe ISON&#8217;s path through the Solar System,<br \/>\nand where, when, and how to view it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Bring a flashlight to the meeting! Here is why:<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 \/>\na gravel path to the meeting begins beside my garage. No need to walk<br \/>\non the Bluff Road, but you will need a flashlight to follow the path.<br \/>\n(The solar lights along the path do not last long at this time of year!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where: 475 Bluff Road, Avonport, N.S. When: Saturday, Nov 09 at 7 pm AST Speaker #1: Nathan Gray Topic: My Supernova Discovery Nathan Gray is a family member of the RASC through his father Paul Gray. Nathan has been looking to the sky since he was a young boy attending summer star parties at camping [&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-839","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\/839","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=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":842,"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions\/842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nature1st.net\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}