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CAO 2013 Summer Work Party Report

It’s a great combination when we can blend two nights of excellent astronomy with the annual Summer Work Party at the Toronto Centre’s Carr Astronomical Observatory (CAO), and we were served up a heavy dose of both pristine conditions for observin

CAO 2013 Spring Work Party Report

Could it have been a more perfect weekend at the CAO Spring Work Party held at the Toronto Centre’s E.C. Carr Astronomical Observatory in the Blue Mountains from May 24 - 26, 2013? 

The Sky in July and August 2013

Below is a document with Chris Vaughan's highlights and important dates from his Sky this Month presentation at the Recreational Astronomy Night. There is lot's going on in the sky!

Video: Michael Daly - Travelling to an Asteroid

Video of RCIScience/RASC lecture from November 27, 2016

June 2013 Dark Sky Star Party Report

We had a great time last night at the Long Sault Conservation Area. Twilight lingered but was followed by an amazing pass of the International Space Station. We followed it, some of us in our scopes, sort of, almost to the horizon.

Annual CAO Open House and Picnic

You and your family are cordially invited to attend the 16th Annual E.C. Carr Astronomical Observatory (CAO) Open House and RASC Toronto Centre Awards Picnic on Saturday, June 1, 2013.

Tour the SNO Lab on June 17, 2013

SNO LAB is an underground science laboratory specializing in neutrino and dark matter physics.

New Members orientation program – First Light - Spring 2013

Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Toronto Centre invites all new members and associate members, who have and will come aboard between January 1st 2012 and May 15th 2013, to join an orientation get together – First Light.

Comet PanSTARRS

For the month of March and into April, we in the Northern Hemisphere will be graced by what could be the brightest comet since the 1990’s.

March 2013 Dark Sky Star Party Report

Well the comet was the star last night, so to speak. On the way to Long Sault Conservation Area I stopped on Island Rd. just east of Port Perry and had excellent views of Comet PanSTARRS.