by Bettina Forget | Mar 23, 2011 | Events
The RASC Montreal Centre will participate in this year’s Earth Hour event in Westmount Park. On Saturday, March 26, we will set up our telescopes in Westmount Park and – weather permitting! – observe Saturn, the Orion Nebula, and other celestial...
by Bettina Forget | Mar 22, 2011 | Photos
Did you check out the “Supermoon” on Saturday? What a spectacular sight for us Montrealers, who were lucky to have clear skies for once! The Supermoon was especially large and bright this Saturday because it was just under 358,000 km from our planet – the...
by Bettina Forget | Mar 8, 2011 | Photos
Get a sense of the scale of planets, stars, and galaxies in this fantastic video. Thank you, Daniel Biron, for sending in that link! Great sound track, too. PS: I still think I’m the centre of the universe, though. And cosmologists are on my side.
by Bettina Forget | Mar 5, 2011 | News
Check out the April edition of Sky & Telescope! Our Montreal Centre member Tony Moffat is mentioned and photographed in an article titled Stellar Winds Above Atlantic Clouds On a cold mountaintop in the Canary Islands, amateurs work with pros on a hot-star...
by Bettina Forget | Mar 3, 2011 | Photos
Our RASC Chair of the Observatory Committee and “Night Sky Guy” Andrew Fazekas is in Florida right now, and besides enjoying the lack of snow and warm temperatures, he also attended the recent launch of the Shuttle Discovery. It was a picture-perfect day,...
