Join us for a LIVE ONLINE Journey to the planet Mars! If the weather is clear tune in to TeleTube for live images and Mars info from our students and volunteers.

Today’s the day! Mars is at its closest approach to Earth, making it the biggest and brightest it will be for another 15 years!

In elegant and humorous prose which makes her book highly engaging and readable, theoretical astrophysicist, Dr Katie Mack, makes clear almost immediately where her story will end: with the end. Of Everything. It’s not a plot twist that’s wholly unexpected, but there’s more: fire. That’s going to be the element that is finally our grand undoing (the “we” is rhetorical - human life will long have been extinguished), white hot fire from the swollen sun like nothing we can imagine.

Announcing the October Mars Opposition Event! Join us for a LIVE ONLINE Journey to the planet Mars! If the weather is clear tune in to TeleTube for live images and Mars info from our students and volunteers.

Watch the recorded video: https://youtu.be/j2QAHGGel8Q

Join us at the Ontario Science Centre for our monthly Solar Observing on the TELUSCAPE.

It's a great week for some planetary observing! Mars is at opposition, which means it'll be big and bright and beautiful as we come between it and the Sun.

Watch the recorded video: https://youtu.be/vaYABVy45m4

Professional astronomy has long since moved past the telescopes of Kepler and Galileo. How do the massive astronomical instruments you see in the news work, and how are they designed? To find out more, join us online on Wednesday, September 30 at 6:00pm. Prof. Abigail T. Crites will be taking us step-by-step as she deconstructs the astrophysicists' toolbox! As always, everyone is welcome!

Everyone is invited to join us and Durham Skies for stargazing at the edge of Lake Ontario. Take a free look through different kinds of telescopes (including solar-filtered scopes) to get close-up looks at sunspots, craters on the Moon, and planets visible in the current night sky. Peer into deep space and try your hand at spotting faint star clusters and nebulae. You can even bring your own telescope along and we'll give you expert advice on how to use it better.

Struggling to set up your telescope? Can’t see Jupiter as clearly as you want to? We’ll set up our scopes to show you exactly what we do each time, give you some tips to make your telescope observing sessions even better, and recommend some gadgets and accessories.

You are invited to a Zoom meeting called "Shoot the Moon" in which we use live views of the crescent Moon to examine its major features like craters and mountains, and talk about their formation. The meeting will be held on the first clear night from Monday, September 21 through Friday, September 25. Please check our website starting September 21 for a Go/No-Go announcement.