Video: What's in a Name? - minor planet edition
Dave Chapman, supported by Peter Jedicke, gives us an overview as to how minor planets (asteroids) are named and how the naming procedure can also be used to honour people or places on Earth.
Dave Chapman, supported by Peter Jedicke, gives us an overview as to how minor planets (asteroids) are named and how the naming procedure can also be used to honour people or places on Earth.
With Tim Doucette's presentation, we get two for the price of one. First, Tim gives us a wonderful overview of his excellent Deep Sky Eye Observatory, which is open to the public. Next, he gives us a review of the Celestron Starsense Explorer Telescope and how it could make your visual observing fun and easy.
Denis Grey takes the helm to point out the highlights in the night sky for the coming month that we need to look out for.
Denis Zaytsev, a Toronto Centre member and a TMT Software QA Engineer, takes us through some marvellous and mind-blowing features that we can look forward to once the TMT is in full operation.
John Read, with Chris Vaughan, set out to write the definitive book on how to view the 110 Messier astronomical objects. We think they succeeded.
Well, Andy Beaton had his work cut out for him this month trying to come up with some astronomical observing highlights in a quiet month, but he was up to the task and provided some good targets.
Have you had trouble recording and organising your astronomical observations? Well, Krishna Vedela has you covered.
Michael Cook wanted to relocate his original "Newcastle Observatory" in Newcastle, Ontario to a new location in the country, north of Port Hope.
For our first meeting of 2022, instead of doing The Sky This Month, Chris Vaughan presented The Sky This Year.
With these winter months making astro imaging difficult, Claudio Oriani shows us how he solved this problem with a hardware and software solution.
Manu Mukerji wanted to expand his photography hobby and decided to try astrophotography. In this presentation, Manu explains the joys and the frustrations in becoming a better astrophotographer.
Although you might not be able to go way down south to Antarctica to see the total eclipse of the Sun, Andy Beaton has other astronomical highlights to look out for in this last month of 2021.
Malcolm Park is an avid chaser of astronomical phenomena. He is particularly interested in chasing auroras and gives a detailed account of one aurora chase that he wanted to photograph.
Reza Mohamed gives us a step-by-step overview of processing astrophotography images by comparing two different types of stacking software: Deep Sky Stacker and Sequator.
Denis Grey gives us the upcoming highlights in the night sky for the month of November 2021 with a special emphasis on the partial Lunar Eclipse on November 19.