Astronomy News
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
The latest issue of the Hamilton Amateur Astronomers Event Horizon newsletter is now available for download!
In this issue you’ll find;
- Announcements
- HAA Book Lending Library Policy
- The Sky this Month for February 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: Orion’s Sword and the Orion Nebula, by Chris Szaban.
Join us this Friday January 10th, 2025 for our members meeting at 7:30 pm in the Parish Hall at St. Matthew’s-on-the-Plains Anglican Church, 126 Plains Road E. Burlington. This month’s presentation will feature Dr. Michael Richer who will share information about the National Telescope of Mexico and the research that is done at that facility. Dr. Richer will be joining us through Zoom.
Our Observing Director, Kevin Salwach will be sharing tips on what’s up in the night sky for the next month. If you want more information about what to observe in the winter sky, check out Kevin’s article in the January Event Horizon.
We hope to see you there!
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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 January 2025
- NASA Night Sky Notes
- 2023-24 HAA Financial Statement
- Upcoming McCallion Planetarium Shows
- Upcoming Events
- Plus More
Download the latest issue or visit the newsletters section for past issues.
Photo credit: The Veil Nebula (part of eastern portion), by Alex Kepic.
Join us on Friday December 13th for our annual Seasonal Social. 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.
There will be some club announcements and followed by the Sky this Month with Kevin Salwach. This will be followed by door prizes and the Seasonal Social. There is no guest speaker this month.
Potluck finger food treats are welcome. Coffee, tea and water will be provided by the club.
We hope to see you there!
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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 December 2024
- NASA Night Sky Notes
- Scenes from the November HAA Telescope Clinic
- Eye Candy
- Upcoming McCallion Planetarium Shows
- Upcoming Events
- Plus More
Download the latest issue or visit the newsletters section for past issues.
Photo credit: Milky Way in Sagittarius, Serpens and Scutum, by Bob Christmas.
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 for November 2024
- 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: Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), by Chris Szaban