On the first Thursday of most months, free tours are offered by the graduate students in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto.
Tours start at 8 p.m. in the Winter and 9 p.m. in the Summer.
Presentations are generally in a hall in the McLennan Physical Labs building at 60 St. George street.
Observing sessions take place on the 15th and 16th floors of that building.
We now also offer planetarium shows during the observing session.
You can now sign up for the May 19th planetarium shows here.
May 12, 2012 - 11:00am
Location: St. George Campus
The department of Astronomy & Astrophysics will be participating in Science Rendezvous again this year. We will have a table at the St. George Campus at the University of Toronto, where we will have a variety of interactive Astronomy activities, including our General Relativity demo, real meteorites, and telescopes set up for solar observing. We will also be offering planetarium shows throughout the day.
Keynote Public Lecture: Pluto is still dead and other good news
Speaker: Prof. Michael Brown
May 19, 2012 - 7pm to 11pm
Location: J.J.R. MacLeod Auditorium,
Medical Sciences Building
1 King College Circle
While the occasional "Bring back Pluto!" t-shirt can still be found in the used-shirt bin at the store,
most of the world has moved on...
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Speaker: Ernst De Mooij
June 5, 2012 - Transit at 5:45pm, lecture at 7:00PM
Location: TBA
On June 5, 2012, Venus will cross the face of the Sun starting at 6:04pm in Toronto. This rare event has not happened since 2004 and will not happen again until 2117...
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TBA
Speaker: Dr. Kipp Cannon
July 5, 2012 - 9:10PM
Location: MP102
TBA
TBA
Speaker: Jackie Radigan
August 2, 2012 - 9:10PM
Location: MP102
TBA
The Free Astronomy Public Tours are made possible with the generous support from the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics and the University of Toronto Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics.
