Members of the Hamilton Amateur Astronomers will be sharing an evening of Astronomy, telescope equipment demonstrations, Solar Observing during the afternoon, and viewing of Saturn, the Moon, and other celestial objects. Astronomy Day is scheduled to coincide with the best time to observe the Moon.

Solar observing from 2-4 PM, at Van Wagners Beach Park,
(see map for the afternoon here)
http://www.amateurastronomy.org/sites/confedpark/confedpark.jpg

will be followed with more activities in the evening, at a different park.
We will be setting up on the lawn at Bayfront Park, (Known to Google as Harbourfront Park), on May 2nd, with a rain/cloud date of May 3rd, at 8 PM, and will remain until about 11 PM.

Check back here on May 1st to see which date has been chosen. Note that daytime clouds often dissipate as evening approaches, so we will be checking the weather predictions carefully. If it rains, that’s a different story.

The park is at the junction of Bay St and Harbourfront Dr (near Strachan St E).

Here’s a map of the location:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=43.269136,-79.869334&spn=0.001318,0.003001&z=19

Come early to see what it takes to assemble and set up a telescope, or come on time and get a good look through those same telescopes.

If you have a telescope, bring it along: we can help set it up and point it at Saturn for you.
If you have binoculars, by all means bring them too. Binoculars are an excellent and easy to use way to get more from the sky.

As part of the International Year of Astronomy, we will also have some handouts to interest
children and adults.