Up in the Sky

An Astronomy Night presentation in associated with the David Dunlap Observatory

Friday, May 21, 2021, 9-10:30 PM EDT

Stellarium introductory course (ONLINE)

Stellarium is a powerful planetarium application available for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux computers. 

Class participants will learn how to load additional catalogues, customise the application including setting up specific locations, loading new comets, and modifying the toolbar, choose landscape textures, use stepping zooming, copy object information, configure eyepiece views, and slew a telescope mount to a target. This will provide an amateur astronomer a deeper understanding of the Stellarium program.

Stellarium introductory course (ONLINE)

Monday, May 31, 2021 - 7:30 to 9:30 PM EDT

Stellarium is a powerful planetarium application available for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux computers. 

Class participants will learn how to setup the software for a specific location, date, and time. They will learn how to view the simulated sky, zoom and pan, and search for and select celestial objects. Features such as gridlines, the meridian, sky settings, and red light mode will be explored. This will provide an amateur astronomer a basic overview of the Stellarium program.

Son of Hubble: Confessions of an HST Historian
Presented by Chris Gainor

RASC History Committee

This year NASA has issued the history I wrote covering the first three decades of Hubble Space Telescope Operations. In this talk I will tell the story of this book, and along the way, talk about Hubble itself, which is much more than a telescope that happens to be located in space.

This talk will take place Thursday, May 20th, 2021 @ 8:30 pm EDT.

Earth & Beyond: Young Stars amid External Radiation and Colliding Clusters

Presented by Alexandra Yep

RASC Calgary

Virtual Monthly Meeting May 2021

RASC Winnipeg

The monthly gathering of the Winnipeg RASC will take place Friday, May 15, 2021 @ 7 pm - 10 pm CDT (9 pm - 12 am EDT). Due to COVID-19 the meeting will be held via Zoom. The meeting link is can be found on the event listing HERE!

Agenda:

Beginners’ Session
Main Presentation
Break
Announcements
What’s Up
What’s New

The Dragonfly Telephoto Array Presented by Deborah Lokhorst 

RASC Edmonton 

New eyes to reveal the faintest and largest structures in the Universe
RASC Regular Meeting - Monday, May 10, 2021 @ 7 pm MDT (9 pm EDT)

7:00 PM, Meet and Greet

7:30 PM, Meeting begins, including guest talk, News from Space, AstroImaging Corner, and other RASC news.

FREE and open to the public.

International Astronomy Day 2021

RASC Montreal & Explore Alliance 

Monthly Meeting: May 2021

RASC Kitchener-Waterloo

The Kitchener-Waterloo Centre will hold its monthly meeting on Friday, May 14, 2021, @ 7:30 pm EDT. Everyone is invited to attend.

Jim Goetz will present "10 Things I Like About Astronomy and why you can like them too!" We'll also have reports and presentations on recent comet activity, Astronomy News, What's Up and a lunar talk on "The Gang of Four."