Mars Night at the Mill Of Kintail – Monday April 14, 2014
Come join us as we explore Mars in Space and on the Ground – Monday April 14 2014 Where: Mill of Kintail Conservation Area Visitor Center When: Monday April 14 2014 – starts 7:45 pm for Special Lecture...
View ArticleNight Sky Course – Astro Tour tonight … GO call
Calling it a GO for tonight to try to do some observing . Tonight: 8:15 PM Monday April 28 – Meet at the Mill of Kintail Visitor Center If reasonably clear we will continue observing the objects we...
View ArticleObserving through the ‘Sucker Holes’
Monday night April 28 was the only night without precipitation in the forecast, so we took our chances to see if we could peer through the clouds. At 9pm as predicted by the FLO clear sky clock for...
View ArticleNight Sky Course ‘lab’– Fun with Stellar Evolution
In order to get a sense of how stellar mass influences the evolutionary path of stars, here’s a lab exercise to try (on a cloudy night) Here’s a capture of what happens to a star at 10 solar masses:...
View ArticleReferences to use for Night Sky Activities
Here’s a guide to the books, charts, magazines and software mentioned in the Night Sky Course. Resource Rating Author Comments Introductory Astronomy and Astrophysics ***** Zelik and Smith Second...
View ArticleSpecial Astrophotography Lecture Friday May 9
Sanjeev Sivarulrasa, Ottawa-based visual artist and author, will be a guest speaker at the Mill of Kintail on May 9 to talk about his new book Vanishing Stars. Sanjeev contrasts his own experience in...
View ArticleNight Sky (not) in Yellowknife
Some of you who took the Night Sky Conservation Course this Spring had the pleasure of meeting our assistant Andrew Lindstrom. Andrew has remained connected to NSC as a remote correspondent in...
View ArticleRide to the Stars *and* Planets – Mars, Saturn and the Rising Milky Way
For the StarGazer’s ride June 27 2014, Night Sky Conservation Programmers (the folks that do the Spring Astronomy Course) offer the following description of some of the celestial objects above our...
View ArticleAlmost Heaven: Observing locally…
RASC – Ottawa Canada Excerpt from the June 2014 Astronotes of the RASC Ottawa Center This article is an excerpt from the Ottawa RASC (Royal Astronomical Society of Canada) June 2014...
View ArticleStar Hop to Comet Jacques 2014 !
Comet Jacques Now Sailing past the Constellation Cepheus! Finder chart – Courtesy Sky and Telescope Comet Jacques (C/2014 E2) is now visible through small telescopes and moving fairly quickly across...
View ArticleRainbows and Rain on Lunar Eclipse
Rainy Days and Nights make for a spectacular Rainbow and a non-eventful Lunar Eclipse (Oct 8 2014) Early Wednesday morning – (meaning 3 am local time for us) was a wash-out for the Oct 8 2014 Lunar...
View ArticleMill of Kintail Special Night Walk – Saturday Nov 15 6-8 pm
This Year’s Night Quest… Learn about the wonders of the night environment
View ArticleCosmology and Our Perception – RASC Astronomy Lecture
This month, the Ottawa Centre of the RASC (Royal Astronomical Society of Canada) invited a special guest speaker, staff writer for Astronomy Magazine, Mr. Bob Berman. There are 2 websites where the...
View ArticleObserve Comet Lovejoy C2014 this January
Skies above Mississippi Mills this January host a nice comet-like object Messier 1 (M1) and a REAL comet, Comet Lovejoy C2014. The first one leads you right to the real one: Locate M1 just above Zeta...
View ArticleFinding planet Mercury January 2015 – with a little help from Venus …
The best opportunity to see Mercury is when the planet is at greatest ‘eastern’ or ‘western’ elongation. You need a clear horizon, because this inner planet does not appear high in the sky at night,...
View ArticleFebruary 2015 The Parade of Planets Continues – Venus and *Mars*
Last month the close conjunction of Venus and Mercury allowed us to see Mercury,the innermost planet of our Solar System. This month, Feb 20/21 2015, we have a new near neighbour to Venus at Sunset –...
View ArticleEarly Spring Night Sky Observing
Looking West – Observe the Winter Milky Way Walking home from my neighbour‘s I was blessed to behold: the brilliance of the Winter Milky Way in the South West. Here we see the bright giant stars of...
View ArticleLecture 1: ‘The Night Sky Around Us’ March 27 2015
MVNSC: Mississippi Valley Night Sky Conservation: Program developed by: Mississippi Valley Conservation Authority in partnership with: Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Ottawa Astronomy Friends...
View ArticleLunar ‘Road Map’– How to Observe the Moon
MVNSC – Mississippi Valley Night Sky Conservation How-To Observe the Moon around First Quarter Equipment you will need: Moon chart – Overview with labelled sections near the terminator (line between...
View ArticleMorning Moonset ‘Eclipses’ Eclipse – April 4 2015
If we take the definition of the verb form ‘eclipse’ to mean ‘to block’, then we have the time and place set for our location in Mississippi Mills on the morning of April 4 2015. We didn’t get to see...
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