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. 

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. 

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.

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.

Are you looking to buy a new telescope for someone (or yourself) for the holidays? Or maybe you already have one and are looking at getting some help with setting it up and using it, or even the fixing of minor repairs. This telescope clinic is free of charge and no pre registration is required.

The clinic will be held this Saturday November 16 at Valley Park Library, located at 970 Paramount Road in Hamilton, between the hours of 1:00 PM and 4:00 PM.

Everyone is welcome, so we hope to see you there!

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

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 October 2024
• Upcoming McCallion Planetarium Shows
• Upcoming Events
• Plus More

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

Photo credit: Wolf Rayet 134 and its nebula, in Cygnus, by Chris Szaban