by Bettina Forget | Jul 29, 2011 | Events
Mark your calendars for our next free public lecture and star party at the Morgan Arboretum: Saturday, August 6, 2011 8:00 p.m. Speaker: David Levy Topic: A Nightwatchman’s Journey: My Adventures as a comet discoverer and skywatcher Followed by star gazing,...
by Bettina Forget | Jul 24, 2011 | Photos
What do you do on a cloudy night? For example, when you’re out with your astronomy club at your favourite dark-sky site and there’s nothing much to see except ‘stratocumulus montrealis’? You get creative. During our last member’s only...
by Bettina Forget | Jul 14, 2011 | News
After a long hiatus, our RASC Montreal Centre newsletter Skyward! is back up and running! Our newest board member, Chantal Boisson, has picked up the baton and has taken over as editor of Skyward!; our Montreal Centre secretary Kevin Kemball is taking charge of...
by Bettina Forget | Jun 29, 2011 | News
Need something to do on those cloudy nights? Why not join the Ice Hunters! A team from Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville has developed the website IceHunters, which challenges the public to discover potential destinations for a NASA mission at the very edge...
by Bettina Forget | Jun 11, 2011 | News
Three of the newfound supernovae are pictured before explosion (left column) and after (right). Diagram courtesy Nature and Robert Quimby/Caltech . Re-post of Andrew Fazekas’ article on the National Geographic website . A new type of exploding supernova has been...
