Tag: Cloud Chamber
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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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January Orbit now available!
As is our custom, we are making the latest issue of Orbit available to the general public a few weeks after it is prepared and distributed to our club members. In this month’s issue, we find the following great articles: What’s up in the January Sky from Troy McCoy NASA Night Sky Notes: January’s Evening…
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February 7 Meeting – Observing the Moon
“Making Lunar Lemonade: Tips, Tricks, and Targets for Observing the Full Moon” Chris Vaughan, B.Sc. Chris Vaughan is a professional Exploration Geophysicist and Astronomer (1982 graduate of University of Toronto) with a passion for education and public outreach. He is the recipient of the 2014 Bertram Topham Award for Observing and the 2013 and 2014…
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Seeing and Believing Book Review
A Book Review of Seeing and Believing by Richard Panek Reviewed by Abigail Hughes Seeing and Believing. Pages 198. New York, Viking., 1998. ISBN0-670-87628-3. Available at the observatory library. For this review, I started by reading another book titled Entering Space, which turned out to be too technical and detailed for…
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January Monthy Meeting – How we got to the Moon
Join us on Thursday, January 3 at 8pm in Waterdown to hear a talk by Dr. Ian Shelton on “How We Got to the Moon and Other Space Exploration Triumphs” This meeting is open to the general public, so come on out! Ian Shelton, BSc, MSc, PhD Astronomy Lecturer, University of Toronto Chair, David Dunlap Observatory…
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December Orbit Now Available
As is our custom, we are making the latest issue of Orbit available to the general public a few weeks after it is prepared and distributed to our club members. In this month’s issue, we find the following great articles: What’s up in the December Sky from Troy McCoy NASA Night Sky Notes: Observe Apollo…
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December 6 Club Meeting Preview
Astronomy – A Fascinating Tour of the Universe”Insights and Discoveries About the Universe – A Tour Through Space and Time Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 8:00 PMRoyal Canadian Legion Branch 55179 Hamilton St N, Waterdown ON L0R 2H0 Speaker: Tom Vassos, BES, MBA Member, Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Author, “Awe-Inspiring Discoveries About the Universe…
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RASC Turns 150!
On December 1, 1868, eight gentlemen got together in Toronto, Ontario and formed The Toronto Astronomical Club. Within a few months, they became The Toronto Astronomical Society and later The Astronomical and Physical Society of Toronto. In 1903, the organization became the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. For more information about the history of the…
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Introducing the New Club Library!
Our club library has now entered the 21st century with an online database, accessible by everyone. All of the club books are now visible online at https://raschamilton.libib.com/. With the books available to browse online, a new lending system will be inaugurated to accommodate members and promote accessibility. The new system will be run through the…
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November Orbit Now Available
10 months of the year, Roger Hill puts together Orbit, the monthly newsletter for Hamilton RASC. The November edition is now available to the general public. In this edition, Roger reveals that he plans to step down from the editor’s chair and have someone new take this on. With great edition after great edition being…
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Guest Post – Could We Actually Achieve “Warp Speed”?
We have received a guest post from Anna Kucirkova with IQS Directory that we thought we could share with our readers. This article provides a little background information about the speed of light and whether we could actually, one day, achieve “Warp Speed”.