Tag: cosmic rays
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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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May Orbit available
As is our custom, the monthly publication of the Hamilton chapter of RASC is being made available to the general public after the regular membership has had an opportunity to see it. This month, you can read about: Page 2 – Editorial by Roger Hill Page 3 – A Sidewalk Astronomy Experience—Tom Field Page 4 …
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Join Us Thursday evening for our June Meeting
“Exploring Mars Mineralogy and Geology Using In Situ X-Ray Diffraction” Dr. Roberta Flemming Associate Professor Earth Sciences and Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration University of Western Ontario To understand the evolution of Mars, we need to study its minerals. There is a mineralogical record of Mars geological processes, impact history, climate (e.g., the…
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MAY MEETING POSTPONED
Due to unforeseen circumstances, we were just made aware that the Legion cannot accommodate us tomorrow. Therefore, the May 2nd meeting will be postponed. Watch for further updates. We apologize for the inconvenience. In the meantime, here are other RASC events to add to your calendar: MONTHLY ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST http://hamiltonrasc.ca/forum/index.php?topic=1102.0 CANADIAN ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY SCHOOL: MAY…
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April 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: Page 2 – Editorial by Roger Hill Page 3 – Non-detection of the Tooth Fairy…
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May’s Monthly Meeting – Mars Mineralogy and Geology
“Exploring Mars Mineralogy and Geology Using In Situ X-Ray Diffraction” Dr. Roberta Flemming Associate Professor Earth Sciences and Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration University of Western Ontario To understand the evolution of Mars, we need to study its minerals. There is a mineralogical record of Mars geological processes, impact history, climate (e.g., the history…
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March 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: Page 2 – Editorial by Roger Hill Page 3 – What’s up in the March…
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Thursday April 4 – Monthly Meeting
“The Golden Dance of Death” Athanasios (Thanassis) Psaltis Graduate Student, McMaster University Gold is the most valued metal: it's beautiful, useful as jewelry and quite rare. Tracing its source goes far beyond a mine: in the vastness of space, pairs of city-sized stars collide in a dance of death creating gold and other precious metals.…
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Join us at the March 7 Meeting – New Frontiers in Observational Cosmology
Dr. Michel Fich Our most recent generation of cosmology experiments, such as the Planck satellite and observations of distant supernovae, has reduced all of cosmology to the very precise measurement of eight parameters. This relatively simple model seems complete with no hints of additional elements required to explain the entire evolution of the universe from…
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February 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: Page 2 – Editorial by Roger Hill Page 3 – What’s up in the February…