7
December
RASC National Society: The Insider's Guide to the Galaxy - Astronomy Highlights 2022 (ONLINE)
A new year brings new astronomical events! We’ll spend this session giving you a sneak peak of the best astronomy events coming in 2022 - meteor showers, elongations and conjunctions, eclipses and occultations, and the return of Mars.
14
December
SkyNews: Subs and Stars: Lesson 4 (ONLINE)
Register for the fourth session of Subs and Stars, an eight-part instructional online series that teaches people how astrophotos are built and edited.
11
January
Dunlap Institute: Astro Trivia Night! (ONLINE)
The best kind of trivia is astronomy trivia!
18
January
RASC National Society: The Insider's Guide to the Galaxy - RASC Observing Programs (ONLINE)
Working on an observing program is a great way to learn the sky and develop your observing skills.
21
January
SEDS-Canada: Ascension 2022 - To Infinity and Beyond: Innovation in Space (ONLINE)
Ascension is an annual space conference that brings together students, researchers, and industry professionals over a 3-day event.
25
January
ASX Star Talk: JWST: Infrared Eyes on the Universe (ONLINE)
Learn more from an expert astronomer on the James Webb Space Telescope on January 25! The guest speaker will be Dr. David Law at the Space Telescope Science Institute.
9
February
Ontario Science Centre: Cosmic Webb (ONLINE)
Get to know the James Webb Space Telescope
28
January
RASC, Mississauga Centre: Speaker Night – Here Come the Suns: The statistics and habitability of planets in binary star systems (ONLINE)
Speaker: Dr. Lea Hirsch, University of Toronto – Mississauga
29
February
The Gorilla Store: Q&A with the authors of For All Humankind
Join "professional Martian" Dr. Tanya Harrison and "geographer of space" Dr. Danny Bednar as they discuss the ongoing impacts of the Moon landing on human imagination, ambition, and achievement. Moderated by Dr. Sara Mazrouei.
Tanya Harrison (@tanyaofmars) has spent over a decade working as a scientist and in mission operations on multiple NASA Mars missions, including the Curiosity and Opportunity rovers.
Danny Bednar (@dannybednar) has worked on policy programs and rover-training missions with the Canadian Space Agency and teaches Space Exploration at Western University.
22
July
Kortright Centre: Midnight Astronomy (CANCELLED)
First, receive a detailed introduction to the basics of astronomy through an indoor presentation. Learn your way around the night sky in an amazing portable planetarium.
Next, we’ll venture out into the darkness for naked-eye viewing of constellations, more detailed observations with binoculars (provided) and viewing planets and deep-sky objects through telescopes of amateur astronomers.
Rain date: Wednesday July 29, 2020