March 26, 2025 Dear CASCA members, Reminder of the early-bird registration deadline for the 2025 CASCA AGM: Fri 4 April Deadlines for conference rates at hotels: 30 Apr (SMU Residence), 1 May (Marriott), 3 May (Atlantica) Final Registration deadline: Fri 16 May (Abstract submission closed on 14 March) Updated first announcement with other details below… Many thanks to our sponsors, MDA, Honeywell, CFHT, and Saint Mary’s University. The 2025 AGM LOC is delighted to inform the

March 20, 2025 By Nadine Manset (Director of Science Operations, on behalf of the CFHT ‘ohana) Recently At its December 2024 meeting, the CFHT Board of Directors made an important recommendation regarding the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer. See Pat Hall’s update in this newsletter. In the science news, University of Hawaiʻi astronomers played a pivotal role in tracking an asteroid once feared to pose a risk to Earth. The asteroid, 2024 YR4, was discovered in late December an

March 20, 2025 By Eric Steinbring (Canadian Gemini Office, National Research Council Herzberg Astronomy & Astrophysics) Calls for Proposals Another springtime (in the northern hemisphere) brings three opportunities for Canadians to propose for time: First is the monthly CfP for Fast Turnaround (FT) time, at noon Hawai’i Standard Time (HST) on 31 March. The FT Call is at https://www.gemini.edu/observing/phase-i/ft/ft-cfp. Those are short, small proposals; On the same day (31 M