Please join us on this Friday May 9 for our monthly meeting. Doors open at 7:00 pm and the meeting will begin as usual at 7:30 pm.

First on the agenda this Friday is a vote on the resolution to file the articles of incorporation to change the HAA from an association to a not-for-profit organization under the Canada Not-for-Profit Corporations Act (2009).  For details please see the email dated Saturday May 10, 2025 or contact Sue MacLachlan at chair@amateurastronomy.org.  Voting will take place in person and over Zoom.  Please consider joining us on Friday and participating in the vote.  

The latest issue of the Hamilton Amateur Astronomers Event Horizon newsletter is now available for download!

In this issue you’ll find;

• 2026 HAA Calendar Image Submissions Are Now Open
• Other Announcements
• The Sky this Summer 2025
• NASA Night Sky Notes
• Eye Candy
• Upcoming McCallion Planetarium Shows
• Upcoming Events
• Plus More

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Photo credit: NGC 4631 and NGC 4656, by Marc Fitkin.

Please join us on this Friday May 9 for our monthly meeting.  Doors open at 7:00 pm and the meeting will begin as usual at 7:30 pm.

Our speaker this month is Thomas Deere. Tom holds a BA in Anthropology, BEd, specialists certification for teaching Iroquoian languages and Environmental Education.  He has a deep interest in researching the astronomical knowledge of the Hodinǫhshǫ́:ni, and for many years has been interviewing elders, and investigating anthropological native language texts to identify astronomical wisdom. With this traditional knowledge, he helped to develop a show for W. J. .J. McCallion Planetarium at McMaster University based on the Hodinǫhshǫ́:ni origin story of the Ursa Major (Big Dipper) constellation.  On Friday, Tom will be discussing the origin stories of the Big Dipper and the Pleiades constellations as well as well as the ceremonial calendar of the Six Nations’ people.

The latest issue of the Hamilton Amateur Astronomers Event Horizon newsletter is now available for download!

In this issue you’ll find;

• The 2025 HAA Dark Sky Star Party
• Announcements
• The Sky this Month for May 2025
• NASA Night Sky Notes
• Eye Candy
• Upcoming McCallion Planetarium Shows
• Upcoming Events
• Plus More

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Photo credit: Crab Nebula (M1), by Bob Christmas.

Please join us on Friday April 11 for our monthly meeting.  Doors open at 7:00 pm and the meeting will begin as usual at 7:30 pm at St. Matthew’s-on-the-Plains Anglican Church at 126 Plains Road E. in Burlington.  

Our speaker this month is Dr. Samanthan Lawler.  Dr Lawler is a professor of astronomy at the University of Regina in Canada. She completed degrees at the California Institute of Technology, Wesleyan University, and the University of British Columbia, followed by postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Victoria and NRC-Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Centre.  She studies the orbits of Kuiper Belt objects as well as light pollution from satellites.  She has been advocating for regulation of satellites as her research telescope data and her dark prairie skies have increasingly filled with bright satellites over the past several years, and recently helped to publicize two separate SpaceX debris falls that occurred in Saskatchewan. 

The latest issue of the Hamilton Amateur Astronomers Event Horizon newsletter is now available for download!

In this issue you’ll find;

• Announcements
• The Sky this Month for April 2025
• NASA Night Sky Notes
• Total Lunar Eclipse March 14, 2025 Members’ Image Gallery
• Upcoming McCallion Planetarium Shows
• Upcoming Events
• Plus More

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Photo credit: Lunar Eclipse of March 14, 2025, by John Gauvreau

Join us on Friday March 14 for our monthly meeting.  Doors open at 7:00 pm and the meeting will begin as usual at 7:30 pm.

Our guest speaker this month is Dr. Shohini Ghose, and she will be speaking to us about “Her Space, Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe”. 

From the Big Bang to dark matter, women have been involved  in the most groundbreaking discoveries about the cosmos. This talk will share the inspiring stories of these long-overlooked scientists who not only transformed our understanding of the universe, but also reshaped the rules of society.

The latest issue of the Hamilton Amateur Astronomers Event Horizon newsletter is now available for download!

In this issue you’ll find;

• Announcements
• The Sky this Month for March 2025
• NASA Night Sky Notes
• Eye Candy
• Upcoming McCallion Planetarium Shows
• Upcoming Events
• Plus More

Download the latest issue or visit the newsletters section for past issues.

Photo credit: Galaxy M106, by Alex Kepic.

In partnership with the Hamilton Public Library the Hamilton Amateur Astronomers are holding a Telescope Clinic on Saturday March 8, 2025 at the Valley Park Library in Hamilton.  The event runs from 1:00 pm to 4 pm.

Valley Park Library
970 Paramount Drive
Stoney Creek, Hamilton
L8J 1Y2

Join us on Friday February 14 for our monthly meeting.  Doors open at 7:00 pm and the meeting will begin as usual at 7:30 pm.

Our guest speaker this month is Dr. Elizabeth Hays from the Nasa Goddard Space Flight Centre.  She will be talking to us about T Corona Borealis, one of the few known recurrent novae.  After 80 years, this white dwarf and red giant binary system is showing signs that it will go nova again in the near future.  The nova should be bright enough to catch a glimpse by eye in the first days.