From mid-February to mid-March, there will be opportunities to see Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, Venus, and Mercury. Mars, in particular, will draw closer to us and get bigger and brighter, as it heads toward opposition in April.

The sky this month as presented by Chris Vaughan at the Recreational Astronomy night.

Launches, this month in history, star parties, the sun and moon, planets, comets, meteors, asteroids, satellites, occultations and winter highlights. 

Hawking is the extraordinary story of the planet’s most famous living scientist, told for the first time in his own words and by those closest to him. Presented at TIFF, co-presented with the Perimeter Institute.

As of November 2013 we have four comets in the night sky that can be seen with simple telescopes and binoculars. One comet, named comet ISON is brightening rapidly and can be seen without optical aids (with the naked eye) from darker rural skies.

What is up in the sky this month? François van Heerden tells us all about the planets, objects you can see with binoculars, metero showers, comet ISON, Lovejoy, Encke and Linear, the moon and the upcoming MAVEN mission to Mars by NASA.

From mid-October to mid-November, there’s something going on just about every night and early morning. Enjoy double shadow transits on Jupiter. Capture the colours of Mars and Regulus. There are many comets visible to us in the Northern hemisphere, in addition to ISON. Watch the Olympic torch go for a spacewalk. Try to spot the faint moons of Uranus and Neptune. Take in the interesting and colourful planetary nebulae of the constellations of Andromeda, Pegasus, Perseus, Cetus, Pisces, Triangulum, and Aries.

Armstrong is a dramatic and emotional documentary that features never-before-seen family home-movie footage, along with still and moving images that chronicle Neil Armstrong’s incredible life.

Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Toronto Centre, invites all new members and family members, who have and will come aboard between June 1^st,  2012 and Nov.

The 16^th Annual Algonquin Adventure Star Party, held at Mew Lake Campground on September 5 – 8, 2013 had 97 attendees, even though the ‘weather gods’ didn’t co-operate during most of the official dates.  The skies were clear on the

What is up in the sky this month? François van Heerden tells us all about the planets, objects you can see with binoculars, metero showers, comet ISON, the moon and current space missions.

All are cordially invited to an Open House at the RASC Toronto Centre's E.C. Carr Astronomical Observatory (CAO) on Blue Mountain. The Open House will offer presentations on astronomical themes as well as guided stargazing as weather permits.

Stephen Hawking visited SNOLAB in Sudbury, Ontario—twice! Once in 1998, and once in 2012. On June 17, 2013, I too, visited SNOLAB with the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada in Toronto (RASCTC) for a tour of the magnificent lab!

It's the tenth anniversary of the "great opposition" of Mars. Let's set the record straight.

Will Mars be as big as the Moon?

Conditions were excellent at Bayview Village Park last night for our August 2013 City Star Party.