Royal Astronomical Society of Canada: Toronto Centre

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! 

Once a month, we invite someone from the scientific community to share their expertise and latest research.

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.

Title: "What Exactly are UFOs?"

Speaker: Dr. Michael De Robertis, Professor of Physics & Astronomy, York University.

This year marks our 17th Annual Algonquin Adventure Star Party which is held at Mew Lake Campground (inside Algonquin Park).

Title: "New Eyes on Our Origins: The Atacama Large Array"

Speaker: Dr. Rachel Friesen, Dunlap Fellow, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrohpysics, University of Toronto

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! 

Join us for our monthly recreational astronomy night meeting at the Ontario Science Centre.

Title: "The Lonely Moon"

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

See: http://observethemoonnight.org/

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.

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! 

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

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.

Speaker: Chris Vaughan, Chief Geophysicist, CGI Controlled Geophysics Inc.

Star Talk nights offer great talks by great speakers on astronomy, space science and sometimes, science fiction.

This is the story of one of Toronto's historic observatories, built on a height of land between the Don and Black Creek watersheds, and the story of the man who built it.

Rachel Ward-Maxwell. Dept of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University.

Title: "A Star is Born: A Convergence of Science and Art"

Star Talk nights offer great talks by great speakers on astronomy, space science and sometimes, science fiction.

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