The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada and the Royal BC Museum present International Astronomy Day at the Royal BC Museum Saturday, April 21, 2018 10AM to 4PM Amazing Astronomical Activities for all Ages! Poster (408k PDF) – please spread the word
Astronomy Day 2017 in Victoria
The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada and the Royal BC Museum present International Astronomy Day at the Royal BC Museum Saturday, April 29, 2017 10AM to 4PM Amazing Astronomical Activities for all Ages! Poster (425k PDF) – please spread the word and
FOR SALE: Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way – Barnard, 1927 (SALE WITHDRAWN)
RASC Victoria Centre is selling a rare antiquarian star atlas from our library: Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way – by Edward Emerson Barnard Published by Carnegie Institution of Washington 1927Part I – Photographs and DescriptionsPart II – Charts
Stardust: the cosmic seeds of life – Prof. Sun Kwok
September 14, 2016, 7:30PM, University of Victoria, Bob Wright Centre A104 – RASC Victoria Centre’s monthly meeting Event info “Stardust: the cosmic seeds of life ” – Prof. Sun Kwok, Faculty of Science, The University of Hong Kong How did
Astronomy Day 2016
The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada and the Royal BC Museum present International Astronomy Day at the Royal BC Museum Saturday, May 14, 2016 10AM to 4PM Amazing Astronomical Activities for all Ages! 2016-IAD-MediaRelease (59k PDF) Event Details All Astronomy Day
Summer Star Parties 2016 at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory!
Back for 2016! The Victoria Centre will be hosting thirteen Saturday Evenings at the DAO, featuring guest speakers, solar and nighttime observing with telescopes provided by RASC-Victoria Centre volunteers, tours of the historic Plaskett telescope, and more! Rain or shine,
Monthly Meeting Speaker: Azadeh Fattahi, PhD Astronomy at UVic
January 13, 2016, 7:30PM, University of Victoria, Bob Wright Centre A104 – RASC Victoria Centre’s monthly meeting Event info “What dwarfs teach us about the galaxy formation” – Azadeh Fattahi, PhD Department of Physics and Astronomy at UVic The standard model
Total Solar Eclipse – August 21, 2017
A Total Solar Eclipse is a rare astronomical event, and it is even rarer for one to occur close to where you live. Those of us who live in the Pacific Northwest of North America will be favoured with such
Orion Nebula imaged by Dan Posey
M42 – Everything and the kitchen sink First off happy holidays! We have only had small windows of clear sky this month in Victoria, but I managed to gather a little bit of data about two weeks ago. I
New Horizons Pluto fly-by celebration – July 14th
Tuesday July 14 is going to be an historic day. The New Horizons spacecraft will make its long-awaited flyby of Pluto, obtaining the first closeup photos and data from this mysterious world. In honour of this event, I am arranging