
30
October
New Moon - 1:38pm EDT
Moonless night allowing to see deep sky objects

28
October
RASC Mississauga: Amateur Astronomy Today – A Status Report
Speaker: Randy Attwood, Executive Director - The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
Amateur astronomy has changed drastically over the past 50 years. Telescopes made in the basement have been replaced with high quality instruments capable of performing astronomical research. Those new to astronomy are confronted with computerized telescopes and unfortunately, disappearing skies due to light pollution.

28
October
UofT Planetarium: Voyager’s Odyssey: A Small Probe’s Adventures into Interstellar Space
Showtimes: 7:00pm, 8:00pm, and 9:00pm
In 1977 two small probes, Voyager 1 and 2, were launched from Earth with a mission to study the outer solar system. Both spacecraft visited Jupiter and Saturn, and Voyager 2 passed by Uranus and Neptune, returning images to Earth which allowed us to make surprising discoveries about these distant planets. Now these probes are entering interstellar space, making them the furthest man-made objects from the Earth!

21
October
UofT Planetarium: Voyager’s Odyssey: A Small Probe’s Adventures into Interstellar Space
Showtimes: 7:00pm, 8:00pm, and 9:00pm
In 1977 two small probes, Voyager 1 and 2, were launched from Earth with a mission to study the outer solar system. Both spacecraft visited Jupiter and Saturn, and Voyager 2 passed by Uranus and Neptune, returning images to Earth which allowed us to make surprising discoveries about these distant planets. Now these probes are entering interstellar space, making them the furthest man-made objects from the Earth!

21
October
Globe at Night
Measuring light pollution of your sky, see www.globeatnight.org

21
October
Orionids Meteors
Meteor Shower

20
October
ASX Star Talk: Variable Stars: Action in the Sky!
Presented by John Percy, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics and Dunlap Institute

17
October
YorkU: Ada Lovelace Day 2016: How men in STEM can be allies to women
A talk by Professor Bryan Gaensler, University of Toronto
Bryan Gaensler is the Canada Research Chair in Radio Astronomy, and Director of the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto. His research is in cosmic magnetism, time-domain astrophysics and the diffuse Universe.

15
October
Solar Observing (GO)
Join us at the Ontario Science Centre for our monthly Solar Observing on the TELUSCAPE observing pad. This is the area in front of the Science Centre's entrance. We use specialized telescopes that are safe to aim at the Sun. Check our home page on the Friday prior for go/no-go calls as this event is weather dependent.

14
October
Hamilton Amateur Astronomers: Exploring the ghostly side of galaxies with the Dragonfly Telephoto Array
Dr. Roberto Abraham, Dept. of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto

13
October
Richmond Hill Central Library: The Sun's Story
Join us for a trip through time as we follow the Sun’s 10 billion year life cycle - from birth in a cold primordial nebula into its last throes of nuclear fusion before fading away as a remnant of cosmic jewellery. Chris Vaughan aka @AstroGeoGuy is a professional Geophysicist and Astronomer with a passion for public outreach and education.

13
October
TIFF: Trek Talks: Space, Diplomacy and the United Federation of Planets
Debuting at the height of the US-Soviet Space Race, Star Trek offered an alternative to the adversarial ideology then underlying space exploration in the United Federation of Planets. A kind of intergalactic United Nations, the Federation is dedicated to preserving peace between species, ridding the known universe of war, inequality, hunger, and disease, and upholding the values of cooperation, equality, justice and liberty for all.