Join the Hamilton Amateur Astronomers between 7:30 and 11:00pm on Saturday, March 24, 2018 at the Niagara Gateway Tourism Centre located just off Casablanca in Grimsby.

Solar System Social is a space-themed speaker series that brings exciting ideas and research from the field of planetary science to the general public in the form of short, informative, and interesting talks that last about 20 minutes each.

Speaker: Prof. Barbara Sherwood Lollar From Jules Verne’s Captain Nemo, to Astronaut Mark Watney stranded on Mars, we remain fascinated by the theme of Exploration. Fact can be stranger than fiction however as we discover that even here on Earth, there are parts of the planet we have only begun to probe for new habitable domains and microbial ecosystems.

Science Literacy Week is a week-long celebration of science in Canada. This year will be space-themed and include Run the Solar System.

Explore the universe with members of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. Telescopes will be set up to provide amazing views of the Moon, the planets and more! Meet at the Chappell House Lawn.

Following up Jim Wamsley’s introduction to telescopes in Part 1, John Gauvreau now guides you through what a beginner can expect from their very first views through that scope.

How big can a star get? Why would a star only pretend to explode? Can you hide one star inside another?

Come ask our diverse panel of five PhD students any of your burning questions about the current (and future) search for extraterrestrial life! This event will be run as a guided discussion, with a host/moderator posing a variety of general questions to the panel, however you (the audience) are encouraged to bring your own questions! Some of the topics that will be covered are:  - Current search efforts and how they are performed (ie.

Showtimes: 12:00pm, 2:00pm Rocket away from the Earth on a tour through our solar system and beyond. Starting with highlights from the Toronto night sky, this show will take you on an epic cosmic journey. We’ll follow human spacecraft on their visits to the planets and moons of the solar system, then warp far beyond the furthest reaches of human exploration to visit exoplanets, galaxies, quasars, and the very edge of the observable universe. This show is geared to audiences aged 5-12, shows are 50 minutes long.

Showtime: 11:00am Rocket away from the Earth on a tour through our solar system and beyond. Starting with highlights from the Toronto night sky, this show will take you on an epic cosmic journey. We’ll follow human spacecraft on their visits to the planets and moons of the solar system, then warp far beyond the furthest reaches of human exploration to visit exoplanets, galaxies, quasars, and the very edge of the observable universe. This show is geared to audiences aged 5-12, shows are 50 minutes long.