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Light Painting At Coopers Aviation
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Light Painting At Coopers Aviation
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 observing session at Coopers...
Skyward is Back!
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...
Join the Ice Hunters!
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...
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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...
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. Re-post of Andrew Fazekas' article on the National Geographic website . This week’s titantic eruption seen on the surface of the Sun may have an extra surprise in store for skywatchers in the form of aurora borealis. While the video taken by NASA’s Solar Dynamics...