Tag: Hamilton
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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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Centre Meeting – Thursday June 1, 8:00 PM
RASC Hamilton Centre Meeting – Thursday June 1, 8:00 PM Special Guest Speaker Michael Watson. “The Great American Eclipse – how to watch, and how to photograph it” This is our last meeting before we break for July & August. We have an especially spectacular event to look forward to on Aug 21. Many of…
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May Meeting Provides Glimpse at Planetary Formation
May 2017 Monthly Meeting by Ed Mizzi On May 4 (May the 4th be with you), 2017, the Hamilton Centre met for its regular monthly meeting. Attendance was very good with about 45 people present, especially with the awful weather outside. Gary Bennett began the proceedings with a welcome to everyone, especially new members and…
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May 4 Meeting – Dr. Parshati Patel, “The Tale of Disks around Massive Stars”
Join us on Thursday May 4 @ 8:00 PM for an evening of wonder and fun. Open to the public! Special Guest Speaker: Dr. Parshati Patel Presentation: The Tale of Disks around Massive Stars Massive stars, young or old, are interesting celestial objects with fascinating mysteries. In this talk, we will explore some…
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Hamilton RASC Visits Canadian Martyrs School, Burlington
By Ed Mizzi On April 21, Ed Mizzi paid a visit to a grade 7 & 8 class at Canadian Martyrs elementary school in North Burlington. You’ll remember that this was the school where several members of our club hosted a Transit of Mercury “party” back in May of 2016. Ed has done outreach several…
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Cubs and Beavers descend on the Observatory
By Ed Mizzi On Monday, April 24, a group of almost 20 Scouts, mostly Cubs and Beavers (ages 6-11) from Dundas were hosted by Ed Mizzi at the observatory. Ed was contacted by Bill Kowalchyk from Scouts Canada, looking for something astronomy related and he remembered that he had visited our club more than once…
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Going, going, gone … to a RASC auction
by Ed Mizzi Recently, members of Hamilton Centre drove down the road to University of Toronto Mississauga to attend the Mississauga Centre’s monthly potpourri meeting and auction. Dave Dev and Murray Romisher, members of the MRASC club, were there to greet Jeff Booth, Martin Palenik and Ed Mizzi to this event. The April 7 meeting…
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April’s Orbit Now Available to the Public
As is customary, Hamilton RASC members get to read Orbit before we publish it on our website. This month, Roger has collected and produced a number of fine articles about current topics in the world of astronomy. With all the talk of the exciting announcement of the TRAPPIST-1 system a couple of months ago, some…
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Outreach with the 1st St. George Pathfinders
by Ed Mizzi On March 31, 2017, Ed Mizzi visited a Girl Guide troop in St. George, about a 30 minute drive West of Waterdown. Twelve members of their group were having a sleepover in a local Church with the theme being “Galactic Adventures”. They had previously discovered the Hamilton RASC website and invited Ed…
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“Colourful” talk highlights April Meeting
By Ed Mizzi On April 6, 2017, the Hamilton Centre met for its regular monthly meeting. Attendance was very good with about 40 people present for a potpourri of topics. Gary Bennett began the proceedings with a welcome to everyone, especially new members and visitors. He named people who had recently joined the club and…
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April Club Meeting, Thursday April 6 – The Colours of the Universe, A Pigment of Your Imagination
Join us on April 6 @ 8:00 for a night of fun and astronomical delight Open to the public! Special Presentation: The Colours of the Universe, A Pigment of Your Imagination We’ve all seen those beautiful photos of colourful nebulas. Some taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, others by our own club members. But, are…