Tag: CCD
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CANCELLED! 2026 Awards Dinner
Jun 10 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. EDT The Mandarin at The Centre on Barton 1223 Barton St E Hamilton ON L8H 2V4 Click For tickets Join us for the 2026 Awards Dinner 🌌, an evening to recognize the volunteers, observers, and educators who keep astronomy thriving at RASC Hamilton Centre. Your registration helps support…
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November 3 Meeting – 2 Great Guest Speakers!
Join us on Thursday November 3 for our next Members Meeting (public welcome too). We have 2 great speakers lined-up! David McCarter will speak about his travels to Tenerife, Canary Islands, where he attended STARMUS 2016 and hung out at the LaPalma observatory. What is STARMUS? It’s like Star Trek convention only it…
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Outreach in Burford, Ontario
By Ed Mizzi For the past few weeks, Bob Prociuk, Bill Leggitt and Ed Mizzi have been planning a visit to the Burford Library. One of the B rant County Librarian’s, Gary Jermy, contacted Gary Bennett, our President, to ask if we could do an astronomy presentation that included some astronomy knowledge and some information…
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Brownies + Stars = Free Cookies!
Our own Ed Mizzi was invited to talk to a Brownie troop recently about astronomy, and it was a great event! On Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016, Ed visited a school in Waterdown, ON, to present a talk to the 3rd Waterdown Brownies, led by Monique Alderman. Here is his account. The Brownies (15 in all) began…
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October Orbit now available!
Once again, Roger Hill has completed another informative issue of Orbit! As is tradition, we give members the first opportunity to read Orbit, which is readily available on our Forum! In this month’s edition, Roger highlights some of the big stories from the world of science, along with a great article for those who are…
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Synopsis of the October AGM
For those of you who were unlucky enough to miss this month’s meeting (like me!), Ed Mizzi has once again provided us with a great summary on the activities of the night! – Gary Bennett, our President gave a quick outline of the topics to be covered for the evening, and then welcomed new members…
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Annual General Meeting – Thursday Oct. 6
Happy Fall everyone! Join us this coming Thursday, Oct. 6 @ 8:00 for our Annual General Meeting. Special Presentation by Bert Rhebergen – “The original Go-To Computer”Many of you have met member Bert Rhebergen and you know him as the Master of MacGyver. Bert knows his way around the sky better than anyone I…
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September’s Meeting – or How I Spent My Summer!
After a couple of months hiatus where we had an amazing summer for observing, it was time for everybody to congregate again and share their summer stories. President Gary Bennett opened the proceedings with a great review of some of the amazing star parties he went to this year (along with many other club members),…
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The September Orbit has arrived!
Well folks, it is September, and with September comes cooler (!) evenings and crisp air. It also means the return of our monthly newsletter, Orbit! It has been a remarkably busy summer on the astronomy news front, and Roger takes us through some of the bigger stories like the discovery of the exoplanet around Proxima…
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June Orbit Ready for Reading!
The latest edition of our newsletter, Orbit, is now available for public download. As always, we post it first on our Forum a few days early to give members the first opportunity to read the exciting things going on at the club. There is a lot of great information that you will find in this…
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June 2 Meeting Gravitational Waves: What’s the Big Deal?
This is our last meeting before we break for Summer. You won’t want to miss our special Guest Speaker, Cliff Burgess, who will talk about Gravitational Waves – a recently confirmed phenomenon. Gravitational waves were recently seen coming from the coalescence of two black holes a great distance away. This talk intends to convey three…