Potpourri Night

Room DV 1142 William Davis Building

Potpourri Meeting – talks on Gravity and Halley's Comet, Remembering Terence Dickinson and choosing a first telescope.

Potpourri Meeting

Room DV 1142 William Davis Building

Potpourri Meeting – various talks by members
NOTE: THIS MEETING WILL BE ZOOM ONLY DUE TO WEATHER

Host: Allan Connery

Presentations

Dr. Lea Hirsch: "The most distant galaxies ever discovered?" A discussion about the high-redshift galaxies newly discovered by JWST

Kirby Alguire: “Astronomy Travelogue:  Lick Observatory in California" … and some shots of the recent Jupiter-Venus conjunction.

Randy Attwood: "Chasing Solar Eclipses"

Dr. Robin Metcalfe: Book Recommendation for Historical Sci-Fi Fans: Galileo’s Dream, by Kim Stanley Robinson

Jake Benbihy: “Capturing Sunrises and Sunsets“  Photographing sunsets and sunrises with polarizers and filters.

Potpourri Meeting

Room DV 1142 William Davis Building

Potpourri Meeting – various talks by members. More to come.

Riverwood Star Party

Riverwood Park, Mississauga 4300 Riverwood Park Lane, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Public Star Party at The Riverwood Conservancy
Be sure to register at https://theriverwoodconservancy.org/event/astronomy-night/

$5

Potpourri Meeting

DV2082 William Davis Building UTM 3359 Mississauga Rd, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada


Potpourri Meeting

Talks on the NEAF conference,Spring Galaxies, An Antique Telescope and more!

Speaker Night – Ryan Cloutier

DV2082 William Davis Building UTM 3359 Mississauga Rd, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Although we are likely still decades away from discovering signs of life on worlds outside of our own solar system, much progress is being made today to identify the best potential candidates for hosting such life. In this talk, I will discuss much of what we currently know about these so-called exoplanets and how we know it. I will then highlight the steps that will be taken in the not-so-distant future to characterize the conditions on potentially habitable exoplanets using extreme telescopes. All of this in hopes that one day these efforts will culminate with the probable detection of life like our own elsewhere in the galaxy.

Riverwood Public Star Party

Riverwood Park, Mississauga 4300 Riverwood Park Lane, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Public Star Party at The Riverwood Conservancy
May 30 (Weather backup date May 31)