Measuring light pollution of your sky, see www.globeatnight.org

Showtimes: 7:00pm, 8:00pm, and 9:00pm Centuries before Galileo observed the moons of Jupiter, scientists in the Middle East were building the first cameras and developing the physics of light. Without the benefit of modern technologies, they took some of the first steps in understanding the motions of the planets and in explaining the nature of the Universe.

The galaxies we see in the universe are aligned along huge intersecting filaments. Using telescope observations and computer simulations, Alexander van Engelen of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics describes cosmologists' understanding of how these filaments formed after the Big Bang from a Universe that was initially very smooth. Presented in collaboration with the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics.

Penumbral lunar eclipse

See for details http://www.rascto.ca/content/nova-astronomy-course-

Day and night are equally long

The Stargazers' Group of Mississauga will be observing Earth Hour on Saturday, March 19, 2016 at J.C. Saddington Park at the bottom of Mississauga Road, in the South Parking Lot from around 8:30pm.

Join the Town of Whitby and the Durham Region Astronomical Association (DRAA) at a Free Stargazing Party at the Port Whitby Marina.

Deep Sky Image Processing with Photoshop – NGC 6946Presenter: Dietmar Kupke

Speaker: Prof. John E. Moores, York University

Over the last twenty years, we have discovered thousands of planets orbiting other stars. We are now in a position to analyse this population statistically, look for trends, and ask whether our Solar System is typical among the galaxy or whether it stands out as unique.