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Hi everyone,

The next virtual B-SIG presentation of will be on Saturday February 13th, starting at 1:00pm.

Dave Falkner will be presenting "The Mythology of the Night Sky".

Synopsis:

"Most of the constellations we see from the northern hemisphere have their roots in Greek and Roman mythology. Dave will talk about the history leading up to the naming of the constellations, some of the stories found in the constellations, and how they relate to life in ancient Greece and Rome.

Dave will also talk about the tradition of naming solar system objects based on Greco-Roman mythological characters, one significant deviation from that, and how in more recent times the naming convention has expanded to other mythologies."

To join the virtual event, click this link: https://zoom.us/j/96882230960?pwd=STBYb ... Z6eER0dz09

Note: We will be opening up this link about 5 minutes before the event starts.

We hope you can join us!

Suresh Sreenivasan
MAS B-SIG Coordinator

Hi everybody,

Thank you for attending yesterday's talk by Dave Falkner titled "Mythology of the Night Sky". We had 82 attendees, making this one of our largest B-SIG events in recent memory. The presentation had a great flow, with some very good questions from the crowd, and no technical issues. I timed it at lasting around 1:07.

If you missed it, please see this link to the recording of Dave's presentation: https://youtu.be/WKjHGIxrWmw

Thank you also goes to Valts Triebergs for editing this Zoom recording, and to Matt Dunham for helping to monitor things.

The next B-SIG presentation is scheduled for March 27th at 1:00pm. I will be presenting "All About Deep Sky Objects".

We hope to see you then!

Suresh