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Event: Geminids Meteor Shower Event – Dec 13th 7:30pm EST

EVENT: Space Places II – a Public Talk Nov 29th 7:30pm EST

Follow Black Friday with Space Saturday! This Saturday, Nov 29th, RASC Montreal Directors David Shuman & Alexei Weins will share their summer journey to watch rocket launches and more in Space Places II: What a Blast! Join us for an evening of pictures, high-res...

EVENT: Spooky Nights Oct 29th 6pm-8pm

This year’s Spooky Nights event will be hosted by the JAC Space Club with our RASC Montreal Centre outreach team, and will be on Wed, Oct 29th from 6pm – 8pm at the John Abbott College Agora.. Young aliens, astronauts, goblins and monsters are invited for a Spooky...

EVENT: International Observe the Moon Night 2025 – Saturday, Oct 4th

Join RASC Montreal for the annual International Observe the Moon Night in-person Sat Oct 4 at 7pm at the Morgan Arboretum (150 Pins, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue). This year features a bilingual Public Event with a talk on lunar observing followed by music, poetry & a...

The July-August Issue of Skyward is Now Online

by Bettina Forget | Jul 17, 2012

The May-June 2012 issue of Skyward! is now available for download in pdf format on our website. Please link to the Members Only page and click on Montreal Member Access. Log in with our Montreal Centre username and password to access the Skyward! page. Get in touch...

Pictures from our Transit of Venus Party

by Bettina Forget | Jun 5, 2012

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 minutes of...

Supermoon Images

by Bettina Forget | May 10, 2012

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 how a...

The May-June issue of Skyward is now online

by Bettina Forget | May 10, 2012

Astronomy Day 2012

by Bettina Forget | Apr 23, 2012

International Astronomy Day Lecture and Star Party The Atacama Adventure by Mark Milas Come and see a slide show of pictures about the trip, tourist attractions in the area, astro photos taken by Mark and others. Mark will also give a brief description of how this...