Freaky Friday at the the Redpath Museum
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Sputnik's launch into orbit, the Redpath Museum held a presentation called "Sputnik and Us - 50 Years in Space" as part of their "Freaky Friday" series. The RASC Montreal Centre was invited to help the celebrations along with an info table and some solar observing. The Canadian Space Agency even brought in some samples of Moon rock for everyone to look at.
Astronomy Day 2007 - Take 2!
The Astro League tried something new this year: for the first time, there were two Astronomy Days in the same year. Again we headed out to the Chapters bookstore in Pointe-Claire and set up our information tables, telescope displays, and held hourly lectures. What made this event special was the participation of the Canadian Space Agency, who partnered with us for our event. The CSA also gave hourly lectures and had their own info-table with free starfinders and other goodies. We had about 2,000 visitors that day - another successful event!
Astronomy Day 2007
This was the third year the Montreal Centre hosted its Astronomy Day activities at the Chapters bookstore in Pointe-Claire. This year we had even more diplay and lecture space, and for the first time a kid's table in the children's books corner. We were also very lucky to have clear skies and mild temperatures for our stargazing activities in the evening. Another great success!
1 - Mario DiCarlo and Dave Shuman in front of our brand-new signage
2 - Bill Strople during his telescope workshop presentation
3 - Andrew Fazekas gives his tour of the universe
4 - Bruno Paul Stenson and Zoe Chee at the kid's table
5 - Bettina Forget and Santiago Lopez
Photos by Daniel Biron
1 - Dave and his Coronado are attracting the girls...
2 - Part of the RASC Montreal Centre display at Chapters
3 - Zoe Chee, Bettina Forget and Dave Brown
4 - Mina Reyes and Chris Novak
5 - Chris Novak and Frank Tomaras
Photos by Frank Tomaras
Star-B-Q 2006
Chris Novak kindly hosted the Montreal Center's annual Star-B-Q, which also served as the First Light ceremony of the Centre's new Meade LX200R telescope, a generous gift of the Meade Corporation and David and Wendee Levy. A clear, warm summer night provided members with beautiful views of M13, M57, Jupiter and the Moon.
1 - The brand-new LX200R sees first light!
2 - The "Burger King" Chris Novak
3 - Santiago Lopez
4 - The crowd starts to gather
5 - Daniel Biron in action
6 - Bettina Forget, Carole Talbot, and David Shuman
2 - Night-time observing
Photos by Mina Reyes
1 - The LX200R in its (huge) box
2 - Chris Novak and Paul Simard unwrap the new telescope
3 - The state-of-the-art control panel
4, 5 - The LX200R ready to go!
6 - Montreal Centre members are getting their first look through the new scope
7 - Star-B-Q panorama
Photos by David Shuman
Astronomy Day 2006
The Montreal Centre hosted its Astronomy Day activities at the Chapters bookstore in Pointe-Claire for the second year, and it was another smashing success! Thank you to all our volunteers.
1, 2 - Bill Strople gives a presentation about telescopes
3 - Bettina Forget trains her telescope on a post-card of Jupiter on the far wall
4 - Minia Reyes and Chris Novak
5 - Andrew Fazekas gives a presentation about Mars
6, 7 - the crowd gathers 'round to hear Andrew's presentation
8 - Bruno Paul Stenson and Mark Bratton
9 - The orrery was one of our major attractions, especially for our young enthusiasts
10 - Bettina Forget, Chris Novak, Zoe and Andrew Fazekas
Photos by Santiago Lopez
The Centre
at the Cirque (2005)
Guy Laliberté
certainly knows how to throw a party! For his birthday he invited a few hundred
of his closest friends - and the RASC Montreal Centre - for Spica, his
celestial-themed party. Mark Bratton, Mina Reyes, Daniel Biron and Bettina Forget
brought their telescopes and showed the night sky to the guests.
1 - (from left to right) Bettina Forget,
Daniel Biron and Mark Bratton, having a whale of a time!
2 - (from left to right) Bettina Forget, Cirque event-coordinator Marie-Eve
Blackburn, and Mina Reyes
3 - Mark Bratton fine-tunes his scope for Spica guests. Note astronaut Julie
Payette on the far right.
4 - Mark Bratton and his telescope
5 - Mina Reyes checks out M57
6 - Some of the 'celestial beings' performing at the Spica event
7 - Acrobats were performing throughout the evening.
Photos by Mina Reyes and Daniel Biron.
