Join us on Friday February 14 for our monthly meeting.  Doors open at 7:00 pm and the meeting will begin as usual at 7:30 pm.

Our guest speaker this month is Dr. Elizabeth Hays from the Nasa Goddard Space Flight Centre.  She will be talking to us about T Corona Borealis, one of the few known recurrent novae.  After 80 years, this white dwarf and red giant binary system is showing signs that it will go nova again in the near future.  The nova should be bright enough to catch a glimpse by eye in the first days. 

Unlike the last outburst in 1946, we now have many powerful telescopes across the electromagnetic spectrum to view this event and track it from before the eruption to the weeks and months afterwards as it fades away.  Dr. Hays will talk about some of the things that astronomers are hoping to see and share what we can learn from gamma-ray observations using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.

Observing Director Kevin Salwach will also be joining us to present the February edition of the Sky this Month.

Our meeting location is at St. Matthew’s-on-the-Plains Anglican Church at 126 Plains Road East, Burlington, Ontario, L7T 2C3.

We hope to see you there!

Image credit: gwu.edu