Join us for our monthly recreational astronomy night meeting. This is where our members get to show their latest projects, or give tutorials and tips on just about everything to do with Astronomy.
To celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday since Confederation, the RASC and the Fédération des Astronomes Amateurs du Québec (FAAQ) are sponsoring a first – a National Star Party.
S. Walter Stewart Library: Chronicles of a Peculiar Universe: The Social Habits of Galaxies
Tuesday, October 17, 2017 -
7:00pm to 8:00pm
Most galaxies enjoy the company of other galaxies and organize into various shapes known as the "cosmic web." Many of them also like to spin ? creating beautiful disks of stars and gas.
Lillian H. Smith Library: Chronicles of a Peculiar Universe: How to Get to Mars
Thursday, October 12, 2017 -
6:30pm to 7:30pm
For decades NASA has been sending orbiters, landers and rovers to Mars for research and exploration, and the agency is aiming to send humans to the Red Planet in the 2030s.
Danforth/Coxwell Library: Chronicles of a Peculiar Universe: Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright
Wednesday, October 11, 2017 -
6:30pm to 7:30pm
Quasars are the brightest objects in our Universe and are formed when matter spirals into supermassive black holes. They contain rotating disks as big as our solar system and hotter than the Sun.
UofT AstroTour: Using Interstellar Plasma Lenses as Billion Kilometre Telescopes
Thursday, July 6, 2017 -
9:00pm to 11:00pm
Fifty years ago, two radio telescopes across Canada were combined to achieve the resolution of a telescope 3000 km across, a technique now known as VLBI.
