Hello All! With the Activities surroinding AstroCATS ( And I hope all of you will be there for AstroCATS) we are moving the date of the Astrophotography night to the FOLLOWING Thursday May 30th. ALSO the time will be changed to 9:00 pm to allow for darkness!.  This session will be on processing images of the moon in registax, as well as a demonstration of how to image the planets!. Saturn in particular! We will also be processing a recent image of Saturn using a Webcam! Come on out for this helpful and informative session!!!

AstroCATS is less than 1 week away and we think we’re going to put on a great show. We’ve added a few more exhibitors and sponsors in the past week and we are eager to see what goodies they bring. For those who have volunteered for duty at the show, we are holding an “Orientation” meeting on Wed. and Thursday. You do NOT need to go to both nights. We are doing 2 nights to help make sure you can work it into your schedule. “Orientation” simply means that you will learn what your job is as well as the … Continue reading →

We hope to see you all this Thursday @ 8:00 PM for our Monthly Meeting. General Public Welcome! Where? Royal Canadian Legion 79 Hamilton St. North Waterdown, ON Our guest speaker is Prof. Michael Reid of the University of Toronto. He will be speaking about “Life on Aliens Worlds”. Other fun stuff: – Gary Colwell will give a tour on “What Up” this month – Welcome our newest members – AstroCATS Astronomy Trade Show Preview (www.astrocats.ca) – Annual Banquet Preview We look forward to seeing you on Thursday!

Once again the weather has foiled our attempts to photograph the beauty of the heavens, and indeed a really nice photo opportunity with the Moon and Saturn….Unfortunately this evening is CANCELLED. Lets hope next month is more cooperative!              

As discussed at our monthly club meeting last night, AstroCATS is moving ahead in leaps and bounds, and are looking to the membership to help out in a couple of areas.  Where we need you to help make AstroCATS a great success is in volunteering, and spreading the word. A Facebook event has been created to help publicize our upcoming astronomy trade show.  Go HERE to join the event, and be sure to invite all of yor Facebook friends!  We ask that you invite everyone on your friends list because not only could they then forward the event onto someone … Continue reading →

The weather Gods are not going to be kind (or perhaps the Easter Bunny?) so we’re going to concede defeat and cancel tonight’s event.