Join us this Friday, December 8th for our regular monthly meeting!    
         
There is no speaker this month to allow time for our Seasonal Social.  The meeting will start with announcements, Ann Tekatch will present the 2021-2022 financial statement and information will be shared about the 2 possible new venues for the club’s meetings.  Members at the meeting will be given the opportunity to ask questions and share their thoughts about the two possible locations, after which a final decision on our new venue will be made.  Matthew Mannering will then present “The Sky this Month” which will be followed by the Seasonal Social.

The latest issue of the Hamilton Amateur Astronomers Event Horizon newsletter is now available for download!

In this issue you’ll find;

• HAA Explorers
• The Sky for December 2023
• What’s Up in Awards? December 2023
• The Twelve Days of Christmas
• Planets of Binary Star Systems Part 2
• Occultations – Perhaps the Ultimate Amateur Astronomy
• Upcoming Events
• Plus More

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Photo credit:  Dumbbell Nebula (M27), by Andrew Brenyo

Join us this Friday, November 10th for our regular monthly meeting!   
 
The meeting will be available on Zoom as well as being available on YouTube after the meeting. The ZOOM address is available at the end of this invitation.

The speaker for our meeting is Doug Turner.  Doug, editor of the HAA Celestial Events Calendar, will be presenting a preview of the new calendar.  Members who have pictures in the calendar will be discussing their photos and club members will have an opportunity to ask questions.

The 2024 Celestial Events Calendar will be on sale at the meeting on Friday starting at the Break.  $10 per calendar Cash or Cheque only. The calendars make great gifts.  So, shop early! Online calendar sales will open at a later date.

The latest issue of the Hamilton Amateur Astronomers Event Horizon newsletter is now available for download!

In this issue you’ll find;

• HAA Explorers
• The Sky for November 2023
• What’s Up in Awards? November – December 2023
• HAA Dark Sky Party at Andromeda Meadow 2023
• Planets of Binary Star Systems Part 1
• Upcoming Events
• Plus More

Download the latest issue or visit the newsletters section for past issues.

Photo credit: The First Quarter Moon of October 22, 2023, by Bob Christmas.

Join us this Friday, October 13th for our AGM, and as we welcome Brother Guy Consolmagno, Director of the Vatican Observatory joining us via ZOOM. Br. Guy’s topic for the evening will be “What’s Surfacing About Bennu?”.

The recent NASA mission to asteroid Bennu, OSIRIS-REx, which is bringing back samples gathered on its surface, discovered a surface that, on the surface, doesn’t make sense: it’s covered with boulders, but it absorbs heat like a powder. What’s going on and how did it get that way? Our measurements of the most likely analog meteorite type, CM carbonaceous chondrites, suggests a surprising answer.

The latest issue of the Hamilton Amateur Astronomers Event Horizon newsletter is now available for download!

In this issue you’ll find;

• HAA Explorers
• The Sky for October 2023
• What’s Up in Awards? October – November 2023
• NASA Night Sky Notes
• Eye Candy
• Upcoming Events
• Plus More

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Photo credit: The Galaxy NGC 7331 and Stephan’s Quintet, by
Pavle Culum.

Join us this Friday September 8 for our September members meeting as we kick off our new 2023-2024 season. Our guest speaker will be the 2023 BASEF winner of the James A. Winger award. Following her, we will have a summer activity recap, and then HAA Chair Bernie Venasse will also present “What I Did This Summer”.

Observing Director Steve Germann will also be there with the summer edition of The Sky This Month.

We will also be giving away some door prizes. Don’t forget that we gladly accept donations of food or cash for delivery to Hamilton FoodShare. Anything you can spare would be greatly appreciated!

Doors open at 7:00 PM and the meeting begins at 7:30 PM.

Photo credit: John Gauvreau

The latest issue of the Hamilton Amateur Astronomers Event Horizon newsletter is now available for download!

In this issue you’ll find;

• HAA Explorers
• The Sky for September 2023
• What’s Up in Awards? September – October 2023
• NASA Night Sky Notes
• Eye Candy
• Upcoming Events
• Plus More

Download the latest issue or visit the newsletters section for past issues.

Photo credit: Crescent Nebula (NGC 6888), by Alex Kepic.

Join us this Friday August 11, 2023 from 8:00 PM till midnight, for our public Perseids night at Binbrook Conservation Area. Admission is FREE! Donations of food (or cash in kind) for the Food Bank will be accepted at the gate.

Binbrook Conservation Area is located at 5050 Harrison Rd, Binbrook, ON L0R 1C0.

Photo credit: almanac.com

Join us on Friday June 9th as we welcome Dr. John Percy, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto. His topic for the evening will be “Variable Stars, the AAVSO, and You”.

As Dr. Percy describes it, “Variable stars are those stars which change in brightness, which most do — they are “action in the sky”. In this presentation, I will give an overview of variable stars, and how skilled amateur astronomers contribute to their understanding — especially through the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO). You can, too! I will also briefly describe my current research projects which make use of AAVSO data”.