Speaker's Night: Indigenous astronomies, stories of the sky and Indigenizing the Drake Equation (ONLINE)

with Hilding Neilson

Astronomy has been practised on the land we call North America since time immemorial and the peoples across this land had and have their own ways of understanding the sky and the Universe. In this talk, Dr. Hilding Neilson will discuss Indigenous methods of science and how sky stories reflect observations and knowledge of different peoples.

Women of Aerospace

Speaker: Natalie Panek, MDA, Senior Engineer (Systems Design)

University of Toronto's Aerospace Team (UTAT)

The University of Toronto Aerospace Team invites you to attend our Women of Aerospace Speaker Series! Our next event will be held on January 15th, 2021 at 7pm EST with Natalie Panek, Senior Engineer in Systems Design at MDA.

Monthly Virtual Meeting

RASC Calgary

Folks, Happy New Year!

The upcoming virtual meeting is on Friday, January 8th at 7:30 PM EST.

The agenda for this meeting is as follows:

- Ottawa Skies - Dave Chisholm

- Astrophotography using your cellphone

- Loïc Bellemare-Alford

- M&M Challenge (over the 5-minute break)

- Meteors - Pierre Martin - Observations

- Observing Challenges

Tracing the Lives, Deaths, and Explosions of Massive Stars

Presented by Sarafina Nance

RASC Calgary

Synopsis: 

DDO: Up In the Sky

ONLINE.

Learn what’s up in the sky tonight. You can view the night sky with the help of our astronomers with their telescopes. We will also offer a virtual tour of the David Dunlap Observatory!  

Saturday, January 23, 2021 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm

Who can attend: Ages 6 and up
Fee for 6 up to 14 years old: $14.50
Fee for 15 or more years old: $16.39
Tickets: ActiveRH (Registration opens for Richmond Hill residents on December 9, 2020 at 7:00am; for non-residents on December 16, 2020 at 7:00am)

Date: Jan 20, 2021

Speaker name: Prof. Bozorgnia

Title: Searching for the mysterious dark matter 

Friday, December 18, 2020 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm Eastern Standard Time

Rick Foster, Claudio Oriani, and Blake Nancarrow will join Andrew Reid and Ward LeGrow with live views of Saturn and Jupiter conjunction on Dec 18, 2020. The closest the two planets will appear together will be on December 21, 2020.

https://rascto.ca/content/saturn-and-jupiter-conjunction-live-december-1...