What is the sound of a twinkling star? Can planets keep a beat? How loud was the big bang?

Hover above the moon like an astronaut and get eye-to-eye with the planets. Find colourful stars, star clusters, bright nebulae and even another galaxy. Our monthly City Star Party is the place to catch universe from within the city limits at Bayview Village Park. If you don't have a telescope then you will find many astronomers who would love to share a view. If you are thinking of buying a telescope, viewing with other people's equipment is the best way to make a good choice. If you have a telescope or binoculars, please bring it!

Watch the recorded video: https://youtu.be/h3kGSv45ChI

Explore the universe with members of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. Telescopes will be set up to give you amazing views of the Moon, the planets and more! Meet at the Chappell House Lawn. In case skies are not suitable for star-gazing on the scheduled date, the event will take place on Wednesday, June 20 at the same time.

Showtimes: 7:00pm, 8:10pm, 9:15pm The stars in the night sky seem unchanging and eternal, and have remained the same for the history of human civilization. However, over millions and billions of years, new stars are born, live out their long lives, and eventually die in a blaze of glory. In this show, we will be exploring the lives of stars by visiting stellar nurseries, supernova remnants and much more!

See the milky way and galaxies with the unaided eye. Point your telescope to find the many dim deep space objects that sprinkle the sky. Away from Toronto's light polution, there is so much to see. We observe from the Long Sault Conservation area, an hour outside of Toronto. We meet around dusk once a month in the parking lot for views only seen in dark sky conditions. We hold this event on the first clear night of our week-long window, so the date and time are determined closer to.

Visit the website for event schedule, tour registration and details.

PixInsight has become a popular image processing software package in recent years, especially for deep-sky astrophotography. Ron Brecher has used PixInsight for all of his deep sky processing since 2009. In this demonstration, Ron will show you how you can reveal the hidden treasures in your deep-sky images with just a few processing steps: crop bad edges, correct gradients, balance the colour, supress the noise, “stretch” the histogram and adjust colour, brightness and contrast.

Showtimes: 7:00pm, 8:10pm, 9:15pm

Join us for our June AstroTour, starting with a talk by Dr. Rachael Alexandroff at 9:00pm on June 7th! After the talk, we will have planetarium shows, telescope observing (weather dependent), and more astronomy activities. Planetarium tickets will be available on a first-come first-served basis outside MP 103 (limit 5 per person) starting at 8:45PM. Any remaining tickets will be available after the talk.

The June 7 Monthly meeting will feature guest speaker David L. Clark, who is a software developer, technical director and astronomy researcher. In his talk he will provide insight into a number of areas of solar-system research in which he is involved: small body dynamics including mini-moons, parent body associations, serendipitous imaging of meteoroids, and large-scale meteoroid stream modelling.

Speaker: Paul Delaney, University Professor, Physics & Astronomy, York University