May 4th, 2015

Last Wednesday evening, the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) hosted a stargazing event in our schoolyard for some of the junior classes and their families. It was a fun night spent learning about the night sky and looking at planets and stars in telescopes – Jupiter’s moons were certainly a highlight!

The RASC puts on public “star parties” and other events from time to time, so if you are interested, here is the local RASC site and a few other links for anyone interested in learning more about stargazing and astronomy:

• http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html – Astronomy Picture of the Day
• http://kw.rasc.ca/~kwrasc/Main/?page=Home – KW RASC
• http://www.uv.es/jrtorres/triatlas.html – free star charts, or maps of the night sky
• https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/triatlas/id592681081?mt=8 – the free Triatlas app

Thank you to Mr. Stumpf for organizing this special learning event!