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

• HAA Explorers
• The Sky for March 2023
• What’s Up in Awards? March – April 2023
• NASA Night Sky Notes
• Eye Candy
• The HAA Spring Telescope Clinic – February 18, 2023
• Upcoming Events
• Plus More

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Photo credit: Mars and Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF on February 11, 2023, by Bob Christmas.

Our spring Scope Clinic is scheduled to be held at the McMaster Innovation Park facility on Saturday, February 18th, 2023. Doors are open to the public and members from 2:00 to 4:00 PM. Admission is free but as always, we are happy to accept donations for the food bank.

Make this event a part of your Family Day Weekend!

Join us this Friday, February 10 for our members meeting! Our guest speaker for the evening is Dr. Laura Parker and her topic for the evening will be “Galaxy Evolution in Groups and Clusters“.

Dr. Parker is a long-time friend of the HAA and has spoken to us on occasion. She is a Professor and University scholar in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at McMaster University. She joined the faculty at McMaster in 2007 after an ESO fellowship in Germany and received her PhD from the University of Waterloo in 2005. Before that she attended Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick and Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific in Victoria, B.C.

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

• HAA Explorers
• The Sky for February 2023
• What’s Up in Awards? February – March 2023
• ASI Studio from ZWO
• NASA Night Sky Notes
• Upcoming Events
• Plus More

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

Photo credit: The Crab Nebula (M1), by Pavle Culum

Join us this Friday, January 13  for our first members meeting of the new year! Our guest speaker will be John Gauvreau. His topic for the evening will be The Elephant in the Room – The Nature of our Sun and Observing a Star Up Close.

From its fiery heart where all our light and heat originates, to its tenuous outer atmosphere seen during an eclipse, our Sun gives us a remarkable opportunity to study a star up close. While we all strive to see the faintest starlight from distant galaxies, let’s spend an evening studying the often overlooked elephant in the room; a star right on our doorstep!

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

• HAA Explorers
• The Sky for January 2023
• What’s Up in Awards? January ’23 – February ’23
• NASA Night Sky Notes
• The Moon and Mars December 7, 2022 Members’ Gallery
• Plus More

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Photo credit: The Moon in April 1977, by Jo Ann Salci

Join us this Friday, December 9th for our December members meeting. It will be held at McMaster Innovation Park, and all members are invited to attend the meeting and enjoy the presentations. The facility is located at 175 Longwood Rd. S. in Hamilton.

This month, we will be enjoying an abbreviated version. There will not be a featured speaker so that we can get through the announcements and the Sky This Month segment and adjourn to the atrium for our annual Christmas social.

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

• HAA Explorers
• The Sky This Month for December 2022
• What’s Up in Awards? December ’22 – January ’23
• NASA Night Sky Notes
• Lunar Eclipse November 8, 2022 Members’ Gallery
• 2021 – 2022 Financial Statements
• Eye Candy
• Plus More

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Photo credit: the November 8, 2022 total Lunar Eclipse, by John Gauvreau

We have some very sad news to share with the HAA community.

Michael Jefferson passed away on November 22, 2022.

Mike was a founding member of the Hamilton Amateur Astronomers, and a familiar face on our council over the years. His contributions to the club have been many. More importantly, he was a treasured friend. We are going to feel his loss keenly. 

Photo credit: John Gauvreau

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

• HAA Explorers
• The Sky This Month for November 2022
• What’s Up in Awards? November – December 2022
• The Search for Life on Mars, Part 3
• NASA Night Sky Notes
• Eye Candy
• Plus More

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

Photo credit: M31, the Andromeda Galaxy, by Pavle Culu