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Nov 12 7:30 PM

The November speaker is Ingrid Stairs of UBC astronomy speaking on her recent pulsar discovery.
“A Brand-New (In Every Way) Millisecond Pulsar”
Pulsars generally come in two types: "young and slow" and "old and fast," with the fastest known pulsar spinning more than 700 times per second.
How does a neutron star get to spin so quickly? For a few decades, we've had a good theoretical picture of how this should happen: the pulsar gets "recycled" as a companion star dumps matter onto it.
Over the years, astronomers have found binary systems representing various stages of this process, but had never seen a fast-spinning radio pulsar whose companion was at the end stages of transferring matter.
Such a system is exactly what we found last year when searching for new pulsars. I'll explain how we found the system and figured out what it was, and how it adds evidence for the recycling theory while opening up new questions of its own.

This is the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada - Vancouver monthly meeting and is shared with the general public at no charge.
We meet at 7:30 p.m. on the second Thursday of each month, downstairs in the auditorium of the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre.


Free Admission, Open to the public


Astro-coffee and astro-cookies will be served at the Southam Observatory after the meeting.

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Nov 13 7:30 PM

Join the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada at the West Vancouver Community Arts Council at the Silk Purse on Friday, November 13th from 7:30 pm until 11:00 pm for an evening of celestial contemplation.
At 7:30 PM the RASC will host a short presentation of a few of the many wonderful celestial panoramas that can be considered art in themselves. Artists have always striven to uniquely represent our natural surroundings and we now have the ability to observe so much more of our universe and interpret it artistically. We invite the public to once again join us in the celebrating International Year of Astronomy 2009.
Following the talk and weather permitting, members of the RASC will set up some of our telescopes outside. Through these we invite you to observe Jupiter and its Galilean Moons. There will also be many other early Winter deep sky objects that we should be able to locate with our equipment.

The Silk Purse
West Vancouver, BC, V7V 1A1

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