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 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,...
by Bettina Forget | Nov 30, 2010 | Photos
If you were inspired by Jaymie Matthews’ impressive Townsend lecture “Where will Avarar 2 Be Set?” you may want to check out this gorgeous slide show of the seven most amazing exoplanets. Produced by Scientific American and beautifully illustrated by...
by Bettina Forget | Nov 23, 2010 | Photos
One of our Centre’s most active astrophotographers, Marc Ricard has captured Comet Hartley in all its glory. Thank you for sharing, Marc! COMET HARTLEY TIME LAPSE by Marc Ricard Here’s a time lapse movie of images that I took of Comet Hartley last month as...
