{"id":29620,"date":"2024-01-08T11:57:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T16:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=29620"},"modified":"2024-01-08T11:57:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T16:57:03","slug":"special-guests-at-monsffa-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=29620","title":{"rendered":"Special Guests at MonSFFA Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #003366;\">MonSFFA is excited to host guest speakers from the <a style=\"color: #003366;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rasc.ca\/\">RASC<\/a>\u00a0 David Shuman and Paul Simard.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h6><em>In April of 2024, weather permitting, Montreal will experience one of the most exciting astronomical events\u2013a total solar eclipse!<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>We have invited <strong>David Shuman<\/strong> and<strong> Paul Simard<\/strong> to talk about their adventures chasing shadows. They will also explain how best to safely view the eclipse. We will also get to watch their mini-documentary, \u201cShadowchasers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/David_Photo-300dpi1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-29621 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/David_Photo-300dpi1-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/David_Photo-300dpi1-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/David_Photo-300dpi1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 144px) 100vw, 144px\" \/><\/a>David, a graphic designer by trade &amp; avid amateur astronomer and photographer,\u00a0 is a longstanding member and Board member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rasc.ca\/\">RASC<\/a> Montreal Centre.<\/p>\n<p>He has had many experiences from NASA press credentials, photographing the Space Shuttle in 1994, to visiting the Keck, Gemini &amp; Subaru telescopes in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>His fascination with spaceflight has also allowed him to witness several unmanned launches from KSC in Florida to extensive knowledge of spaceflight &amp; launch vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Along wih Paul Simard, he is co-creator of the Eclipse mini-documentary \u201cShadowchasers: The Great American Total Solar Eclipse\u201d in 2017 shown at the 2019 RASC AGM.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Simard has been interested in astronomy for over 30 years and has been into video editing for at least 10 years. He has been using his knowledge to combine the two interests in helping people understand the night sky and the universe we all live in.<\/p>\n<p>Dave and Paul have given numerous public talks &amp; 3-D film presentations at<a href=\"https:\/\/www.neafexpo.com\/\"> NEAF<\/a> &amp; in California.<\/p>\n<p>Long time members will remember their previous presentations at Con*Cept and MonSFFA.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 358px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Paul-and-David.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"358\" height=\"267\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Simard and David Shuman at a March, 2019 MonSFFA meeting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MonSFFA is excited to host guest speakers from the RASC\u00a0 David Shuman and Paul Simard. In April of 2024, weather permitting, Montreal will experience one of the most exciting astronomical events\u2013a total solar eclipse! We have invited David Shuman and Paul Simard to talk about their adventures chasing shadows. They will also explain how best &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=29620\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Special Guests at MonSFFA Meeting<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29623,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29620\/revisions\/29623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}