Category: Star Parties

Hazy, partly cloudy skies greeted 4 RASC London Centre members to the Springwater Conservation Area Campground near Aylmer, Ontario, Saturday, June 7th, 2014. Dave McCarter brought his 25.4cm Dobsonian; Gaetan Godin, his 20.3cm Home Built Dobsonian; Harold Tutt, his 80mm Stellarvue Night Hawk refractor; and Everett Clark, his 11.4cm Tasco Newtonian on a Super Polaris Read More …

RASC London Centre Public Outreach Coordinator and Past President, Dave McCarter made his digital slide presentation The Universe is Awesome! before 21 visitors in the shelter on the east side of the campgrounds at Pittock Conservation Area beside Pittock Reservoir, Saturday, May 31st, 2014. He distributed 21 Star Finder planispheres & several Moon Gazers’Guide cards Read More …

Partly cloudy skies greeted 47 visitors from the home school group Kids Learning Connection of London to the RASC London Centre’s Fingal Wildlife Management Area Dark Sky Observing Site, Monday, May 5th, 2014. RASC London Centre Public Outreach Coordinator and Past President Dave McCarter began the event around 7:00 p.m. with an orientation talk. This Read More …

Partly cloudy skies greeted 45 visitors (including about 25 children and 20 adults) from the Jean Vanier Catholic School Grade-6 class to the Cronyn Observatory for Exploring the Stars, Wednesday, October 16th, 2013, 7:00 p.m. Graduate student Parshati Patel presented the digital slide show “Our Solar System” and then fielded some thoughtful questions from the Read More …

RASC London Centre member Gaetan Godin conducted 3 outreach events hosted at Summer House Park on Miller Lake on the Bruce Peninsula near Tobermory and Bruce Peninsula National Park, August 1st, 7th and 8th, 2013. Thursdays, August 1st and 8th were wonderfully clear, but Wednesday, August 7th, was mostly cloudy with just occasional patches of Read More …