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RASC Saskatoon Centre, Public & Media Events
All events are free of charge and open to the general public unless otherwise noted
INSTRUCTIONS FOR JOINING ZOOM EXECUTIVE or GENERAL MEETINGS DURING COVID-19
Download the ZOOM app onto your computer or device (if you haven't already.) Register for the Executive or General meeting following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83454419510An email will be sent to you with the meeting link information for your computer or phone. check the newsletter monthy for last minute changes in the link or event scheduling.
2021
September 11 - Observer's Group Night at the Sleaford Observatory - Observing starts at dusk. Get there early and set up for a great night of observing! Members and their guests only.
September 13 - RASC General Meeting - Zoom link will be sent to members for a virtual meeting because of COViD-19. Unfortunately bandwidth limitations prevent us from opening the virtual meeting to the general public. NOTE THIS MEETING WAS MOVED FROM SEPT 20 DUE TO THE FEDERAL ELECTION
September 26 - Sleaford Site Cleanup/Work Bee. A site cleanup/work bee at Sleaford scheduled this Sunday. Please mark your calendar.
October 2 - Public Open House at the Sleaford Observatory *CANCELLED DUE TO ONGOING COVID-19 CONCERNS*.
October 18 - RASC Annual General Meeting and Election of Officers - Zoom link will be sent to members for a virtual meeting because of COViD-19. Unfortunately bandwidth limitations prevent us from opening the virtual meeting to the general public.
November 6 - Observer's Group Night at the Sleaford Observatory - Observing starts at dusk. Get there early and set up for a great night of observing! Members and their guests only.
November 15 - RASC General Meeting - Zoom link will be sent to members for a virtual meeting because of COViD-19. Unfortunately bandwidth limitations prevent us from opening the virtual meeting to the general public.
December 4 - Observer's Group Night at the Sleaford Observatory - Observing starts at dusk. Get there early and set up for a great night of observing! Members and their guests only.
December 13 - RASC Christmass General Meeting - Zoom link will be sent to members for a virtual meeting because of COViD-19. Unfortunately bandwidth limitations prevent us from opening the virtual meeting to the general public.
2022
January TBD - Observer's Group Night at the Sleaford Observatory - Observing starts at dusk. Get there early and set up for a great night of observing! Members and their guests only.
January 17 - RASC General Meeting
February TBD - Observer's Group Night at the Sleaford Observatory - Observing starts at dusk. Get there early and set up for a great night of observing! Members and their guests only.
February 28 - RASC General Meeting
March TBD - Observer's Group Night at the Sleaford Observatory - Observing starts at dusk. Get there early and set up for a great night of observing! Members and their guests only.
March TBD - Messier Marathon Night at the Sleaford Observatory -
Here is your chance to observer 109 of the 110 Messier objects over once
grueling night, dusk to dawn. Observing starts at dusk, but show up
early as your first objects need to be observed in bright evening
twighlight. Get there early and set up for a great night of observing!
Members and their guests only.
March 21 - RASC General Meeting
April TBD - Observer's Group Night at the Sleaford Observatory - Observing starts at dusk. Get there early and set up for a great night of observing! This is also the last-chance Messier Marathon Back-up Night. Members and their guests only.
April 18 - RASC General Meeting
May TBD - Observer's Group Night at the Sleaford Observatory - Observing starts at dusk. Get there early and set up for a great night of observing! Members and their guests only.
May 16 - RASC General Meeting
June TBD - Observer's Group Night at the Sleaford Observatory - Observing starts at dusk. Get there early and set up for a great night of observing! Members and their guests only.
June 20 - RASC General Meeting
July TBD - Observer's Group Night at the Sleaford Observatory - Observing starts at dusk. Get there early and set up for a great night of observing! Members and their guests only.
August 12 - Perseid Meteor Shower (007 PER) - Usually with a ZHR
of 110, but rates can be variable. Meteors are detectable July 17
August 24. The new moon is on the 12th, so this is a very unfavourable year for observing this shower. However, in 2021, an unexpected storm occurred about 30 hours after the traditional peak! For more
information, see https://www.imo.net/files/meteor-shower/cal2022.pdf
August 24 - 29 - 25th Annual Saskatchewan Summer Star Party at Cypress Hills - See Star Party Pages - sidebar.
Open to anyone.
August 16 - 21 - 26th Annual Saskatchewan Summer Star Party at Cypress Hills - See Star Party Pages - sidebar.
Open to anyone.
August 17 - 22 or August 22 - 28 - Saskatchewan Summer Star Party 2044 - 47th Annual SSSP at Cypress Hills Provincial Park. Program TBD. Stay tuned!
See our Newsletter
or email us.
For information specifically on Saskatchewan Summer Star Party (SSSP), email us.
Or see Starparty homepage.
Click here to join the Saskatoon Centre.
Something wrong on this page? Email the Events Page editor.
One of the benefits of membership with our Centre is access to our
remote viewing site at Sleaford. The telephone number at the Sleaford site is 255-2045. For users
of our site, here is some reading material (pdf format):
We are fighting light pollution! The Saskatchewan Light Pollution Abatement Committee
is a collaboration between the Saskatoon and Regina RASC Centres and a number of other
key people in the province. See: Light Pollution in Saskatchewan. The RASC Saskatoon Centre has an active Observing Group. Contact the Observing
Group Coordinator
for details of the group's activities.
Observing Aids
The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada has many activities nationwide.
2023
2044
For More Information on Events & the RASC:
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Sleaford Observatory
Light Pollution Abatement Committee
Observing Group
You can earn you binocular certificate by observing 35 of the 40
objects on this list, created by Darrell Chatfield. Once you have
started, register with the newsletter editor, Tenho Tuomi, to get your
name added to the challenge list on page 10 of the Saskatoon Skies
newsletter.
Don Machholz provides a great ordered listing for the Messier Marathon on his website.
National RASC Activities
RASC Membership Activities
Here's a list of RASC member contributions to astronomy:
