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Supermoon Pictures
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Size Matters: The Scale of Stars
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.
Tony Moffat’s Research in Sky & Telescope
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...
Pictures from the Shuttle Launch
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, and Andrew...
Join Montreal’s Light Pollution Debate
Astronomers, and especially amateur astronomers, are at the forefront of many anti-light pollution campaigns the world over. It simply doesn't occur to most people that lighting up your home like a hotel, or turning your driveway into a landing-strip fit for a 747,...
RECENT ARTICLES
Supermoon Pictures
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 closest it...
Size Matters: The Scale of Stars
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.
Tony Moffat’s Research in Sky & Telescope
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...
Pictures from the Shuttle Launch
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, and Andrew...
Join Montreal’s Light Pollution Debate
Astronomers, and especially amateur astronomers, are at the forefront of many anti-light pollution campaigns the world over. It simply doesn't occur to most people that lighting up your home like a hotel, or turning your driveway into a landing-strip fit for a 747,...