Events & Outreach
Thank you to all that could join!
We invite you all to come out to the Hamilton Amateur Astronomer’s Telescope Clinic in partnership with the Hamilton Public Library this Saturday, November 22nd. The Clinic will be located in the program room at Valley Park Library, 970 Paramount Drive in Stoney Creek. Doors will be open to the public from 1:00-4:00PM.
Our Telescope Clinic aims to answer questions anyone – beginner or experienced – may have about telescopes, observing equipment, and amateur astronomy in general. HAA members will be bringing their astronomy gear to show and tell, and to give advice on what equipment you need for different aspects of the hobby, from binocular observing, to deep sky observing to astrophotography.
Club members will also be available to help with any small repairs or issues you might have setting up and operating your equipment – so feel free to bring in your scope and a member will be happy to assist you. Telescope assistance is on a first come, first serve basis.
Admission is free of charge, and no reservation is required.
See you all there!
The latest issue of the Hamilton Amateur Astronomers Event Horizon newsletter is now available for download!
In this issue you’ll find;
- Announcements
- HAA Explorers 2.0 — Careers Among the Stars: Jobs in Astronomy!
- The Sky this Month for November 2025
- Eye Candy
- Upcoming McCallion Planetarium Shows
- Upcoming Events
- Plus More
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Photo credit: Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon), by Bob Christmas.
Please join us on Friday September 12th for our monthly meeting. 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. Chris Jillings Senior Research Scientist at Snolab. Dr. Jillings’s talk is entitled “How to Tell the Sun from a Hole in the Ground”. His talk will include a discussion of the solar neutrino puzzle and how we know with quite good precision exactly how the sun shines.
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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;
- 2025-2026 Event Dates
- 2026 HAA Calendar Image Submissions Are Now Open
- Other Announcements
- HAA Explorers 2.0 — The Moon’s Influence on Tides
- The Sky this Month for September 2025
- Report from Starfest 2025
- Eye Candy
- Upcoming McCallion Planetarium Shows
- Upcoming Events
- Plus More
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Photo credit: Eagle Nebula (M16), by Ken Leedham.
Join us this Saturday August 9th for our annual Perseid viewing event. The gates at Binbrook Conservation Area (BCA) will be open from 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM to allow the public access to the park.
The BCA is located at 5050 Harrison Rd near Binbrook. Please note that Harrison Rd is closed so you must access the park from the south. The recommendation is to take hwy 56 to Hall Rd, then turn onto Harrison Rd.
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
Download the latest issue or visit the newsletters section for past issues.
Photo credit: NGC 4631 and NGC 4656, by Marc Fitkin.
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
Download the latest issue or visit the newsletters section for past issues.
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.
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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.