delivered TSTM for Apr-May

I delivered The Sky This Month presentation for the RASC Toronto Centre at the Ontario Science Centre on the evening of April 6. I designed it to go to the next Recreational Astronomy Night meeting, which turned out to be more than 1 month away. I just uploaded the notes to the Centre web site, along with a downloadable PDF file for the calendar.

The highlights:

• opportunities to see the Lunar Straight Wall
• Saturn is well-placed for evening observing or imaging at a reasonable hour
• main event is when a gaggle of planets group close together at the end of April and into May
• celebrate human space exploration in April, Yuri Gagarin's launch into low Earth orbit, the final flight of the Endeavour space shuttle
• celebrate the anniversary of the "telescope," as well as amazing new discoveries by Hubble and Kepler

Enjoy.

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Tony said that he had a hard time reading the text in the slides from the extreme right of the auditorium, up fairly high, given the lighting.

I was a little worried about that. I'll have to increase the contrast of the body text font...

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Link killed. Look on the lumpy darkness companion site's presentations page.