This near-infrared, color mosaic from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows the sun glinting off of Titan’s north polar seas. For Complete story, click below: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=pia18432
The weather forecast called for rain, but the crowd of over 300 visitors to the RASC Montreal Centre Transit of Venus party got a lucky break. The skies stayed clear for the first contact of Venus’ disc on the solar disc, and all in all we captured about 27...
Over the weekend of May 5 and 6, 2012, the full Moon was unusually close to Earth – only 356,400km away, compared to its usual distance from Earth of 384,000km. As a result, the moon appeared 14% bigger and 30% brighter than an average full moon. For more about...
We had the pleasure of welcoming our RASC Montreal Centre Honourary President and Comet Hunter Dr. David Levy yesterday evening at the Morgan Arboretum of our monthly Public Lecture and Start Party. Dr. Levy entertained a full house with stories of his career in...
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...
A big thank you to all the volunteers who came out yesterday to support our Astronomy Day events! Thank you for spending your Saturday with the RASC and inspiring kids and adults to appreciate the wonders of the sky. I hope you all had fun. We were lucky of sorts...
