The Astronomy and Space Exploration Society (ASX) is holding the 7th annual "Expanding Canada's Frontiers" Symposium. Wher...

Even if I don't pay attention to anything else, I'll always know that the holidays are around the corner when the trashscopes come o...

This summer I received a copy of a new astronomy book to review: National Geographic's Backyard Guide to the Night Sky by Howard Schneid...

Peter McMahon of Discovery Channel will host a Halloween flavoured star party coming up at the OSC. Costumes, scary stories, and telescop...

STAR Symposium is a combined effort between the Department of Physics and Astronomy, the York University Astronomical Observatory and the ...

Three star parties around in Ontario Huronia Star Party - South Simcoe Amateur Astronomers - September 16-19 12th Annual Algonquin Adventure...

Image from Wikipedia Byron Wilfert, the Member of Parliament representing Richmond Hill, is sponsoring a petition "Protect the David ...

Astronomers in North America have been fortunate to have Clear Sky Charts for weather forecasts available.  While astronomers elsewhere may...

This summer, a good friend of mine took his familiy on a vacatation through the south west. Along the way they stopped in at the Lowell Obs...

There's a messy new bunch of kids in the solar system. Half comet and half asteroid they orbit in the main asteroid belt and leave a d...

A few weeks back I received my second exchange in the The Great Astronomers Badge Swap . The Astronomer's Badge from the 12th Winches...

Just in! Space historian, Randy Atwood will be giving a fascinating presentationon the Apollo 11 Landing and how it narly failed. Following...

I enjoy many of the shows that air on The Discovery and a History channels. Mythbusters , Doing DaVinci , and MayDay to name a few. But...

One thing that astronomers and Scouts share is being outside at night during the summer. That also means one other thing - Mosquitoes and...

Ever wonder about just how big the International Space Station is?   USA Today published a nice animation from NASA showing all the flights ...

Have you ever wanted to get something in space named after someone? Well it turns out you can but it's not as easy as filling out a web...

Every summer since 2003, emails make the rounds talking about how Mars will appear as big as the full Moon. This is complete nonsense. I ...

The main belt asteroid 70207 discovered in 1999 is now called 70207 Davidunlap.  It orbits once every 3.7 yeas near the inner edge of the ma...

Source: Paul Wiegert's Quasi-satellite page at UWO. Click on image for more or see links below. This time let's look at a number o...

The observatory that confirmed the first black hole will reopen this summer for public outreach programs! Congratulations to the folks at ...