Family Nights are a great introduction to the night sky for our younger guests. Look through telescopes, make some space crafts, visit the Skylab and find out what's really up there!  Family Nights require tickets to be purchased in advance. This program runs regardless of sky or weather conditions. If skies are clear you can check out the night sky through a variety of telescopes including the biggest optical telescope in Canada! The evening also includes a presentation in our new Skylab that offers great (virtual) night sky viewing.

Title: "The Changing Cosmos; A Personal Perspective"By Paul Delaney, Director, Division of Natural Sciences, York UniversityThere is always something happening above.  Constellations and planets (here and afar) waltz across the sky from season to season; colourful aurora dance along magnetic lines of force and astronomers the world over rejoice at the images they see with and without telescopes! This talk will describe and illustrate some of the highlights of modern astronomy and space science over the past 20 years from my perspective.

Members are invited to the Summer Star-B-Q at the Carr Astronomical Observatory.Want to spend a day out of the city in the fresh air of the country, hiking a portion of the Bruce Trail, flying kites, launching rockets and spending time with old friends and making new ones?

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The moon is between us and the sun. Without the moon in the sky at night, deep sky objects are easier to observe.

Family Nights are a great introduction to the night sky for our younger guests. Look through telescopes, make some space crafts, visit the Skylab and find out what's really up there!  Family Nights require tickets to be purchased in advance. This program runs regardless of sky or weather conditions. If skies are clear you can check out the night sky through a variety of telescopes including the biggest optical telescope in Canada! The evening also includes a presentation in our new Skylab that offers great (virtual) night sky viewing.

See: www.stellafane.org

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 pollution, 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.

Title: "The Private Lives of Stars"Dr. John Percy, Professor Emeritus, Dept of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto.The stars in the night sky may all look the same, but they actually have unique and interesting characteristics, "personalities" and life stories.  Cand and find out more about well-known stars such as Polaris and Betelgeuse and some amazing stars that you have probably never heard of before. Star Talk nights offer great talks by great speakers on astronomy, space science and sometimes, science fiction.

Measuring light pollution of your sky, See: www.globeatnight.org

Title: "The Search for Earth 2.0". By Dr. Sara Seager, Professor of Planetary Science, Massachusetts Institue of Technology. Exoplanets are planets that orbit stars other then the sun. Astronomers now know, statistically speaking that every star in the Milky Way Galaxy has at least one planet, and that as many as one in five sun-like stars have rocky planets not too hot, not too cold, but just right for life.  The search for Earth 2.0 - a rocky planet that can be identified to have a thin atmosphere and surface liquid water is accelerating.

Family Nights are a great introduction to the night sky for our younger guests. Look through telescopes, make some space crafts, visit the Skylab and find out what's really up there!  Family Nights require tickets to be purchased in advance. This program runs regardless of sky or weather conditions. If skies are clear you can check out the night sky through a variety of telescopes including the biggest optical telescope in Canada! The evening also includes a presentation in our new Skylab that offers great (virtual) night sky viewing.