Astronomy Week Toronto 1992

 

Join amateur and professional astronomers for a week full of outdoor observing and special indoor astronomy activities. For more information, call the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada's Toronto Centre Information Line at 777-****.

Ontario Science Centre

SOLAR OBSERVING, TELESCOPE MIRROR GRINDING, ASTRONOMY DISPLAYS AND DEMONSTRATIONS
Saturday, May 2, 11:00 am-5:00 pm

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2011 Top Astronomical Experience (ok two of them)

Well 2011 for myself started off with a Bang! I should say for my daughter, Kathryn Aurora Gray it started with a Bang and for me began a ride of a lifetime. You see on January 2nd of 2011 Kathryn discovered her first supernova, 2011lt, at the ripe old age of 10, yes 10! This would make her the youngest person to make such a discovery and would lead her on a path we could not have imagined.

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Meeting Report 1893 Feb 7

A newspaper clipping reporting on the meeting of 1893 February 7th.
A bitmap scan is located at the bottom of this page.

ASTRO-PHYSICS


An Evening's Work at the Meeting of the Astronomical and Physical Society.

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From where it came...

My interest in Astronomy and astrophotography began 32 years ago.  I was taken by the night sky, and a special uncle and my mother provided me a small refractor.  Truth be told, I never saw a star through that telescope, save our own, but I was never the less pleased with it.  


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Meeting Report 1893 Jan 10

This is the transcription of a newspaper article which reports on the society's meeting of 1893 January 10th. There is a PDF file with a scan of the original article at the bottom of this page.

ASTRO-PHYSICS

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY--PROF. W. H. PICKERING ON THE NOMENCLATURE UPON MARS--ELECTION OF OFFICERS-- DR. OTTO HAHN ON METEORITES.

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Lance Taylor's Astrophotography (Edmonton RASC)

In 2003, I was the recipient of the Bryce Heartwell Memorial Award for Excellence in Astroimaging from the Edmonton RASC. This was the same year I had this photo published as Astronomy Picture Of The Day - which was taken with an "old school" film camera (remember those?).


Aurora Over Edmonton
APOD: November 4. 2003 by Lance Taylor
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap031104.html

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JRASC 2012 February

February 2012 Issue Contents / table des matières

Feature Articles / Articles de fond

  • An Eclipse of Our Own by Jay Anderson
  • An Early American Zodiac by Robert S. McIvor
  • Science Marches Quietly Forward at Trent University’s Department of Physics and Astronomy by John Crossen

Columns / Rubriques

  • On Another Wavelength: The Galaxies of Pegasus by David Garner
  • Cosmic Contemplations: The Mod Dob Job and the Rat Dob by Jim Chung
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New Blog Feature Added - Name that Blog

RASCals who are using the Personal Astronomy Blog features on the National Website will now find that there is a new option under the "My Account" settings where you can give your Blog a name and also a description of your particular take on the universe. Note that Blogs are combined with your photo so to have a complete "profile" you should update all of the settings under "My Account" that you can.

Enjoy and do provide feedback at rasc.ca/contact

RASC Webteam

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London Program 1930

 

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Hamilton Meetings

The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Hamilton Centre

Meetings held the first Thursday of each month at 8:15 PM in the Physical Science Building, McMaster University, Room 102 (or Room 143)

Membership is open to all persons interested in astronomy. Fee for the year is Five Dollars, which includes the Observer's Handbook and the bi-monthly Journal. Students' Fee is Three Dollars.

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