April 2023 Meeting- RASC Volunteer Coordinator Blake Nancarrow-"Unnoticed Treasures – Double Stars"

The Seven Ponds Astronomy Club, located in Dryden, MI had a very interesting video presentation for their April 2021 meeting: "Unnoticed Treasures – Double Stars"

For our April Meeting, We will be viewing this presentation on the Dome, Wednesday, April 5 at Abrams Planetarium.

Viewing and imaging beautiful doubles is fun and easy however they often go unnoticed. You don't need any special equipment but binoculars and telescope to give you hundreds or thousands of wonderful targets. Mr. Nancarrow will discuss double stars, multiple stars, designations, characteristics, how to observe and needed equipment.

Blake Nancarrow is the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC)-Toronto Centre Volunteer Coordinator, Carr Astronomical Observatory Supervisor, David Dunlap Observatory Operator, and SkyNews contributor. Mr. Nancarrow has studied and measured binary stars, has been published in multiple journals, and recently launched the RASC double star observing certificate programme.

Anytime we have a outreach event and show a double stars through the telescope, we always get ohh's and ahh's from the crowds. This presentation explains the different types of doubles and describes how easy they can be to observed! Awesome information which will make us better star gazers.

Check out Seven Ponds Astronomy Club website and thanks to them for sharing videos on their webpage.

https://spncastronomy.wixsite.com/7-ponds-astro-club

See you Wednesday April 5 at Abrams!