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The Niagara Centre has been bringing astronomy to the citizens of Niagara since 1958.

10/21/2026

POPUP ASTRONOMY EVENT TONIGHT IN FORT ERIE (OCTOBER 21)! With this week’s perfect observing weather, we’re having an impromptu public star night at Old Fort Erie tonight only, from 7:30-9. Two members of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada's Niagara Centre will be at Old Fort Erie with their telescopes tonight, October 21. The skies will be clear and they will be targeting the Moon and Saturn. We invite the general public to this free event. Come out and enjoy the relatively warm weather and our solar system's two finest objects in a telescope! Observing will take place in the overflow parking on Dominion Road, to the southwest of the Old Fort. Plenty of free parking, but please avoid the loop, where we will be setting up the telescopes. Red flashing lights will indicate where the telescopes are.

10/13/2026

Niagara Centre member Peter Schorse photographed the eastern section of the Veil Nebula with his new SeeStar telescope. Two and a half hours of exposures were combined with Astrowizard. Come see the nebula for yourself at our next public star night at Guy Road Park in St. Catharines on October 17. Clear skies permitting, we will be there with our amazing telescopes to view the Moon, planets, stars and the Andromeda Galaxy. The event goes from 6:30-9 p.m. It is free and fun for the whole family. If it’s cloudy or rainy, the event will be cancelled.

10/09/2026

Niagara Centre President Dan Frigault photographed Messier 33, a large galaxy in the constellation Triangulum, with his new SeeStar. Come see the galaxy for yourself at our next public star night at Guy Road Park in St. Catharines on October 17. Clear skies permitting, we will be there with our amazing telescopes to view the Moon, Saturn, stars and more. The event goes from 6:30-9 p.m. It is free and fun for the whole family. If it’s cloudy or rainy, the event will be cancelled.

10/08/2026

Our next general meeting will be on October 15 at Heartland Forest in Niagara Falls. The beginners session starts at 6. The general meeting is at 7. Our guest speaker is Mike Flegel. He will speak about the different ways of calculating the date of Easter through history.

10/06/2026

The Moon passed in front of Jupiter this morning, an event called an occultation. In Niagara, Jupiter got covered up by the Moon at 4:25 a.m. and reappeared at 5:23. Niagara Centre member Philip Downey photographed the Moon, its four brightest moon and our Moon shortly after Jupiter reappeared from behind the Moon’s dark limb.

10/05/2026

Our next public star night of the year will be at Guy Road Park in St. Catharines on October 17. Clear skies permitting, we will be there with our amazing telescopes to view the Moon, planets, stars and the Andromeda Galaxy, picture here by Niagara Centre member Philip Downey. The event goes from 6:30-9 p.m. It is free and fun for the whole family. If it’s cloudy or rainy, the event will be cancelled.

09/28/2026

Messier 27, best known as the Dumbbell Nebula, is one of the largest planetary nebula in the sky. The nebula is a bipolar cloud of gas that was puffed off a sun-like star nearing the end of its life. It can be seen with binoculars or any telescope. Niagara Center member Philip Downey photographed the nebula in September with a Dwarf 3 smart telescope. Processing with Dwarf’s AI tools.

09/22/2026

The Veil Nebula shines brightly overhead in the fall. The Veil is the gaseous remains of a large star that exploded in our Milky Way Galaxy between 10 and 20 thousand years ago. Niagara Centre member Philip Downey took this picture of the nebula with a Dwarf 3 smart telescope in early July. The telescope was in eq and mosaic modes. Processing with Dwarf’s AI tools and Adobe Photoshop.

09/10/2026

Our first general meeting of the fall season will be on Thursday, September 17 at Heartland Forest in Niagara Falls. Beginners have their meeting at 6 p.m. The general meeting begins at 7. Our guest speaker is Erik Rosolowsky, an astronomer at the University of Alberta. He researches star formation in nearby galaxies. He will be on Zoom.

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