Explore the Universe Challenge

RASC Sunshine Coast Centre

On Friday, June 11, 2021, @ 7:00 pm PDT (10:00 pm EDT), online on Zoom, the Sunshine Coast Centre of the RASC presents the Explore the Universe Challenge.

Sunshine Coast Member Charles Ennis will introduce the RASC’s Explore the Universe Program and teach viewers how to find the objects in the Summer viewing portion of the program. Later this year Charles will come back on Zoom to teach the Fall and Winter segments.

Introduction to Stargazing and the Universe

RASC Edmonton Centre

Topics discussed: Satellites, Bootes; Moon Maria; Globular Cluster M5; Noctilucent Clouds; Q&A

Find out what you can see in the night sky and earn RASC's free Explore the Universe certificate and pin! Once a month we have a low intensity 45 minute presentation followed by Q&A. It’s ok if you missed the previous sessions, they’re self-contained.

Join Intro to Stargazing HERE!

Women of Aerospace Speaker Series: Christine Tovee

University of Toronto Aerospace Team

Do you want to learn from Aerospace experts?

Ask an Astronomer

An Astronomy Night presentation in associated with the David Dunlap Observatory

Sunday, May 30, 2021, 1-2 PM EDT

Up in the Sky

An Astronomy Night presentation in associated with the David Dunlap Observatory

Friday, May 21, 2021, 9-10:30 PM EDT

Stellarium introductory course (ONLINE)

Stellarium is a powerful planetarium application available for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux computers. 

Class participants will learn how to load additional catalogues, customise the application including setting up specific locations, loading new comets, and modifying the toolbar, choose landscape textures, use stepping zooming, copy object information, configure eyepiece views, and slew a telescope mount to a target. This will provide an amateur astronomer a deeper understanding of the Stellarium program.

Stellarium introductory course (ONLINE)

Monday, May 31, 2021 - 7:30 to 9:30 PM EDT

Stellarium is a powerful planetarium application available for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux computers. 

Class participants will learn how to setup the software for a specific location, date, and time. They will learn how to view the simulated sky, zoom and pan, and search for and select celestial objects. Features such as gridlines, the meridian, sky settings, and red light mode will be explored. This will provide an amateur astronomer a basic overview of the Stellarium program.

Son of Hubble: Confessions of an HST Historian
Presented by Chris Gainor

RASC History Committee

This year NASA has issued the history I wrote covering the first three decades of Hubble Space Telescope Operations. In this talk I will tell the story of this book, and along the way, talk about Hubble itself, which is much more than a telescope that happens to be located in space.

This talk will take place Thursday, May 20th, 2021 @ 8:30 pm EDT.

Earth & Beyond: Young Stars amid External Radiation and Colliding Clusters

Presented by Alexandra Yep

RASC Calgary