OAOG Gabfest When: 06/16/2022 7:30pm to 10:00pm (UTC-04:00) America/New York Where: ZOOM View Event Description: Until further notice, our monthly meetings will return to the ZOOM platform. Please use

Tristan Young, who worked at Focus Scientific serving the astronomical community here in Ottawa for many years, is currently doing an apprenticeship as an electrician. He will now be supplementing his

Hello All, I just wanted to give everyone a heads up that I will be giving a presentation on astronomical filters next Friday. It will be an online presentation made to the Sacramento Valley Astronomi

Reminder: OAOG Gabfest When: 06/16/2022 7:30pm to 10:00pm (UTC-04:00) America/New York Where: ZOOM View Event Description: Until further notice, our monthly meetings will return to the ZOOM platform.

Hello all, I had a successful observation night (May 30/31) at Balsam Provincial Park in the south-central area of Ontario! Accompanied by Shane Finnigan and Raymond Dubois. Skies about 6.1-6.3 mag ov

Reports from all over are starting to surface, people saw meteors and fireballs yesterday and last night. In Arizona they seemed to be centered near (not eminating from, but igniting? past) arcturus.

Hello all, As many of you are aware , there is a possibility of a meteor ouburst from shattered comet 73P/Schwassman-Wachmann 3 tomorrow night! Earth may encounter the 1995 dust trail from 73P at a mi

Hello all, I just wanted to post an update / reminder on two dark observing sites that are available to amateur astronomers to use. The question may arise with people looking to find a place to observ

Hello all, I joined Raymond Dubois and Shane Finnigan (near Renfrew, ON) to observe and photograph the total lunar eclipse of May 15/16 2022. It was a beautiful eclipse even though the clouds interfer

Here’s a report on my recent outing to Bootland Farm (near Stewartville, ON, about 75 km west of Ottawa). I observed meteors for a few hours until the morning twilight. The sky was clear with below-av

Hello all! I just wanted to share my sentiments on a highly successful International Astronomy Day event on May 7th! The weather cooperated perfectly, and the event really came up together well!!! Thi

I enjoyed a pleasant night of observing at Shane Finnigan’s property, near Renfrew (about 80 km west of Ottawa), with the company of Raymond Dubois and Shane to view the post-maximum Lyrids. (Unfortun

On January 21, 2022, satellite expert Kevin Fetter alerted the community that a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V launch would produce a luminous cloud in space, during the rocket fuel dump. The ef

On the following night, I went out again for the Quadrantids. The timing for the maximum activity was not well positioned for North America this year (predicted during the late afternoon hours with a

I decided to head out despite the cold (-26C, -15F) for a late night session to catch the Quadrantids several hours before their predicted peak. The sky was very clear but windy, so I drove to Johnsto

Hello again, For the Geminids 2021 peak night, Raymond Dubois joined me for an excellent night of observing at the North Frontenac Dark Sky Preserve (NFDSP), located about 160 km west of Ottawa near t

I returned to Moosecreek on the following night to observe meteors for another three hours, this time much earlier in the evening, for a much higher Draconids radiant. The sky transparency was not qui

Hello all! I hope everyone is well! I am catching up on some older reports! Here’s a two hour session I did last October at the Moosecreek site in an attempt to look for Draconids. Although nothing sp

Hello I hope most of you are safe and recovering from the recent storm ! Just letting you know that we have City permission to have a public star party at the Carp library Saturday June 4, 2022 weathe

Hi all… I thought you’d like to know that there is going to be an interview with Pierre Martin talking about the Tau Herculids on today’s episode of Daily Space, a daily astronomy and space news show