Typos in my handout. Challenges with Stellarium. The netbook seemed very slow even though I had no other apps running, Super Performance Mode on. Always challenging on an extended desktop. Open Office Impress was finicky too. Showed a white panel when I started my presentation. Had to kill Stellarium to recovery. Crikey. Forgot my keyboard light. Didn't see a light on the lectern. It was a struggle to see the keys on the keyboard. Looked like I had enough handouts (60). Overall, I felt out of sorts. I had not rehearsed.
Photo by Sharmin.
I'm betwixt and between. I like using Stellarium on one hand to simulate events in a realistic way. But it cumbersome. It's probably too clunky and distracting to the audience member. Maybe I should stick with screen snapshots... I dunno.
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Highlights include:
- partial solar eclipse on October 23 (caution!)
- Mercury visible in mornings
- Mars moves eastward rapidly
- Uranus close, try to see its moons
- Neptune, similarly, close, try to see Triton
- three bright comets to view or image
- C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) will pass close to Mars
- ESA probe at 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
- view targets in Perseus, Cepheus, Andromeda, Lacerta, and Pegasus
- help assess light pollution
Presentation notes and calendar are online at the RASC Toronto Centre web site as well as the lumpy companion.
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