Speaker Night / Annual General Meeting
DV2072 William Davis Building UTMSolar Eclipse and the Mississauga Centre's Annual General Meeting
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Potpourri Meeting
DV2072 William Davis Building UTMPotpourri Meeting – several short talks by members.
Talk information to come
Location information to come
ZOOM link to come
Speaker Event – Astrosleuthing an Aurora: Robin Metcalfe
DV2072 William Davis Building UTMIn this talk, I will explain the science behind the production of an aurora - from its origins at the Sun's surface to the light show in Earth's atmosphere - and in the process we will see how the evidence left behind by an aurora can be used to sleuth out its connection to ancient records.
Potpourri Meeting
DV2072 William Davis Building UTMDetails to be announced closer to the date
Riverwood Star Party
Riverwood Park, Mississauga 4300 Riverwood Park Lane, Mississauga, Ontario, CanadaPublic Star Party at The Riverwood Conservancy Please register on the Riverwood website
Speaker Night – Jellyfish in the Sky: Ram-Pressure Stripping in Galaxy Clusters
UTM Davis (DV) 3140How galaxies are shaped by Dr. Leo Yvonne Alcorn from the David A Dunlap Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at UofT
Potpourri Meeting
UTM Davis (DV) 3140Details to be announced closer to the date.
Riverwood Star Party
Riverwood Park, Mississauga 4300 Riverwood Park Lane, Mississauga, Ontario, CanadaPublic Star Party at The Riverwood Conservancy WEDNESDAY - IT'S A GO! We will also have a table with monitors showing recent eclipse and aurora images! Please register on the Riverwood website
Speaker Night – John E. Moores – Our Celestial Rosetta Stone
DV3130 William Davis Building UTMExploring our Family of Planets to Understand Processes Across the Cosmos
June Potpourri
UTM IB 120 Instructional Centre,, Mississauga, Ontario, CanadaPotpourri Meeting – various talks by members 2023 Astrophotography Contest Aurora Chasing Aurora Photos Planning your astronomy sessions.
Riverwood Star Party
Riverwood Park, Mississauga 4300 Riverwood Park Lane, Mississauga, Ontario, CanadaPublic Star Party at The Riverwood Conservancy Please register on the Riverwood website
To Bennu and back: The OSIRIS-REx mission and the significance to Canada
UTM Davis (DV) 3140Talk Synopsis The OSIRIS-REx mission is a NASA-lead mission to a carbonaceous Near-Earth Asteroid Bennu and return the sample back to Earth in September 2023. An extended mission will take the spacecraft into orbit around near-Earth asteroid Apophis in 2029. OSIRIS-REx was launched on September 8, 2016 and rendezvoused with Bennu on December 3, 2018. […]