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New Members Orientation Program – First Light - Spring 2020

The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Toronto Centre, invites new members and their family who are also members, to join an orientation get together – First Light 2020.

RASC General Assembly Presentation Proposals

The RASC is now accepting proposals for the General Assembly, running from June 24-27, 2022. The submission deadline is May 15, 2022.

Video: Immersive Astronomy

Ron Macnaughton visited the Immersive Van Gogh exhibit in Montreal and was inspired to ask if its method of presenting Van Gogh's art could be used to capture the astronomical experience one would have under a clear, dark, luminous sky.

Video: Predicting Exoplanetary Atmospheres using Machine Learning: ARIEL Telescope Simulation

Artash Nath, a grade 8 student and member of the RASC, Toronto Centre, takes simulation data from the future ARIEL Space Telescope to show how he uses Machine Learning Software to filter out the noise from the Telescope's Exoplanet Observations.

Video: Stargazing Travels in New Mexico

Is the winter cloudy weather getting you down? Are you affected by increasing light pollution? Well Frank Dempsey gives us his secret New Mexico locations and tips for a wintertime stargazing excursion.

David Dunlap Observatory: Spring and Summer 2020 Astronomy Series

Check out the DDO Astronomy Series in Richmond Hill's Spring and Summer 2020 Community Recreation Guide.

David Dunlap Observatory: Fall 2019 / Winter 2020 Astronomy Series

Check out the DDO Astronomy Series in Richmond Hill's Fall 2019 / Winter 2020 Community Recreation Guide.

York University Allan I. Carswell Observatory: Free Public Viewing (SUSPENDED)

In keeping with York University’s intent to keep its community and guests safe in the current situation, effective immediately all Public Viewing and tour activities are suspended until April 30, 2020.

Video: Exoplanets Update with Professor Paul Delaney

What are the latest discoveries with Exoplanets? Prof. Paul Delaney of York University brings us up to date on the fast-breaking advancements in our knowledge of planets in other solar systems.

Kickstarter: Astromania: The Astronomy Card Game

We are a graduate-student-run team from the University of Toronto and Carnegie Mellon University, trying to make an astronomy card game.

Toronto Symphony Orchestra: Oundjian Conducts The Planets

November 9, 2022 - November 12, 2022

Fasten your seatbelts and blast off to the stars with Holst’s sonic, celestial showpiece, which vividly portrays each planet’s astrological persona, from menacing Mars to jolly Jupiter and beyond.

Video: The Sky This Month Dec 11, 2019 - Jan 15, 2020

Bryon Czarnik presents the Holiday Edition for the astronomical sky highlights for the upcoming month at the Recreational Astronomy Night meeting on Dec 11, 2019. The meeting was held at the Ontario Science Centre.

The Sky This Month - Dec 11, 2019 to Jan 15, 2020

Here's the 2019-2020 Holiday Edition of TSTM!

Video: Astrophotography Down Under - with a defective mount!

Michael Watson recently came back from an astrophotography trip to Australia and discussed the difficulty he had with his new polar mount and the solutions he used to work around this problem.

Video: Trying to Observe Dark Matter 2 km Deep: The PICO Experiment at SNOLAB

Ron Macnaughton gives a brief overview of what is happening at SNOLAB and its new PICO experiment that they are building to observe the elusive dark matter.