An Alien Biosphere...on Venus??

IREx - Institut de recherche sur les exoplanetes 

Extraterrestrial life... on Venus?? Join us for the 2020 Grande conference de l'iREx to learn all about the recent tentative discovery of phosphine, a potential biosignature, in the atmosphere of Venus.

Women of Aerospace

University of Toronto's Aerospace Team (UTAT)

Do you want to learn from Aerospace experts?

Attend the Women of Aerospace Speaker Series, hosted by the University of Toronto Aerospace Team, to hear the experiences and lessons of the women leading this fast-growing industry. Coming up on November 7th, 2020, at 6 pm EST, we are joined by guest speaker Sarah Oliveira of Collins Aerospace.

DDO Astronomy Night: Unravelling the Mysterious Fast Radio Burst with CHIME (ONLINE)

Saturday, November 7, 2020 - 7:30pm to 8:30pm Eastern Time

https://rascto.ca/content/ddo-astronomy-night-unravelling-mysterious-fas...

RASC Toronto Centre Speaker's Night Meeting (ONLINE)

Wednesday, November 25, 2020 - 7:30pm to 8:30pm. Eastern Time.

Join us for our monthly Speaker's Night where a professional astronomer gets to tell us about their latest research.

https://rascto.ca/content/speakers-night-and-annual-meeting-1

How to make Gold (Astrophysically Speaking) by Daniel Siegel, Assistant Professor, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo.

Monthly Virtual Meeting

RASC Ottawa Centre

Upcoming Virtual Meeting on Friday, November 6th @ 7:30 PM EST!

We are looking for observation images.  Please send these images to (meetingchair@ottawa.rasc.ca) and Chris Teron (chris@teron.ca) before Monday, November 2nd for inclusion in the slides.

The agenda for this meeting is as follows:

Halloween Virtual Star Party

RASC Toronto Centre & Ontario Science Centre

Are you ready to be bewitched? Join us for spellbinding stargazing at our Halloween Virtual Star Party! For the first time since 1944, a full Moon will light the Halloween sky. Admire this rare Halloween Blue Moon and the stars around it, discover some of the scariest places in the universe—from black holes to the Tarantula Nebula—and ask us your deep-space questions. Plus, hear from ecologist Cylita Guy, PhD, about a nocturnal animal often associated with Halloween: the bat!

Spooky Night 2020 - Space-themed Zoom Halloween

RASC Montreal Centre and JAC Space Club

Calling all aliens, goblins & costumed characters...whether you're young or young-at-heart, join us to celebrate a Space-themed Halloween by Zoom with the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) Montreal Centre and the John Abbott College (JAC) Space Club. Fun-filled activities with multi-media, a Kahoot! quiz, story-telling and crafts using mini-marshmallows and toothpicks (or raw spaghetti) will inspire kids of all ages, and space-themed costumes can be displayed on Zoom!

Mars through the eyes of the RASC: The visual evidence from past oppositions.

RASC History Committee

This session will introduce the surviving images recording views of Mars by Society members at past oppositions. The material circumstances of the images (astronomical media and instruments used), and the non-observational factors possibly influencing what was seen at the eyepiece will be discussed. What can a considered perspective on past visions of the red planet teach us about our own observations at this opposition?