Recreational Astronomy Night (ONLINE)

Wednesday, December 9, 2020 - 7:30pm to 9:30pm

UPDATED AGAIN!

https://rascto.ca/content/recreational-astronomy-night-81

Please join the Toronto Centre for our monthly recreational astronomy night meeting. This is where our members get to show their latest projects or give tutorials and tips on just about everything to do with astronomy.

Next Generation Biosignatures for Exoplanets: A Network Approach

Sunshine Coast Centre of RASC

Astrobiologist Theresa Fisher from Arizona State University will present a talk whose topic is “Next Generation Biosignatures for Exoplanets: A Network Approach.” 

This talk will take place on November 13th on Zoom at 7:00 pm Pacific. 

Use this Zoom Link to join the meeting. 

Meeting ID: 841 9959 3022

Stellarium Software Introductory Course

RASC Toronto Centre 

Introduction to Stellarium

Learn how to use the Stellarium planetarium software on your computer in a basic fashion.

Fee: Free to RASC Members 

Course Overview

An Alien Biosphere...on Venus??

IREx - Institut de recherche sur les exoplanetes 

Extraterrestrial life... on Venus?? Join us for the 2020 Grande conference de l'iREx to learn all about the recent tentative discovery of phosphine, a potential biosignature, in the atmosphere of Venus.

Women of Aerospace

University of Toronto's Aerospace Team (UTAT)

Do you want to learn from Aerospace experts?

Attend the Women of Aerospace Speaker Series, hosted by the University of Toronto Aerospace Team, to hear the experiences and lessons of the women leading this fast-growing industry. Coming up on November 7th, 2020, at 6 pm EST, we are joined by guest speaker Sarah Oliveira of Collins Aerospace.

DDO Astronomy Night: Unravelling the Mysterious Fast Radio Burst with CHIME (ONLINE)

Saturday, November 7, 2020 - 7:30pm to 8:30pm Eastern Time

https://rascto.ca/content/ddo-astronomy-night-unravelling-mysterious-fas...

RASC Toronto Centre Speaker's Night Meeting (ONLINE)

Wednesday, November 25, 2020 - 7:30pm to 8:30pm. Eastern Time.

Join us for our monthly Speaker's Night where a professional astronomer gets to tell us about their latest research.

https://rascto.ca/content/speakers-night-and-annual-meeting-1

How to make Gold (Astrophysically Speaking) by Daniel Siegel, Assistant Professor, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo.

Monthly Virtual Meeting

RASC Ottawa Centre

Upcoming Virtual Meeting on Friday, November 6th @ 7:30 PM EST!

We are looking for observation images.  Please send these images to (meetingchair@ottawa.rasc.ca) and Chris Teron (chris@teron.ca) before Monday, November 2nd for inclusion in the slides.

The agenda for this meeting is as follows:

Halloween Virtual Star Party

RASC Toronto Centre & Ontario Science Centre

Are you ready to be bewitched? Join us for spellbinding stargazing at our Halloween Virtual Star Party! For the first time since 1944, a full Moon will light the Halloween sky. Admire this rare Halloween Blue Moon and the stars around it, discover some of the scariest places in the universe—from black holes to the Tarantula Nebula—and ask us your deep-space questions. Plus, hear from ecologist Cylita Guy, PhD, about a nocturnal animal often associated with Halloween: the bat!