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RASC Calgary Centre @calgaryrasc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

September’s Ask An Astronomer episode with Gina Martin (CTV News) is available! 💫✨🙌 Featuring Dr. Stephen Jeans and Don Hladiuk! youtu.be/FrNidPoG8SU?...

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What happens when the ISS retires? | Ask an Astronomer | September 2026

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass. It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots. This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.

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RASC Calgary Centre @calgaryrasc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Thank you to CalgaryToSpace team members (Marian Abebe, Amy Brunton, Aarti Chandiramani, Meagan Davies and Aaryan Deshpande) who joined us to present “The Journey of CalgaryToSpace”! 💫🤩 A fantastic presentation building FrontierSat, Calgary’s first student-led mission to send a satellite to space!

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RASC Calgary Centre @calgaryrasc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

TODAY!! You can still register up until the time of the event. Looking forward to seeing you there!

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tcieslewicz.bsky.social @tcieslewicz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Spent the weekend at the Alberta Star Party! Such an amazing way to learn about all things astronomy. Here are some photos taken with a Nikon Z5. Ones without cars or tents were shot through a Celestron 9.25" SCT. Thanks for a fantastic weekend @calgaryrasc.bsky.social!

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RASC Calgary Centre @calgaryrasc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is tomorrow (Saturday)! Grab your tix! 🛰️🎟️✨

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RASC Calgary Centre @calgaryrasc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Join us Saturday, Sept 19 at 4:30PM for “The Journey of CalgaryToSpace” at Telus Spark Infinity Dome Theatre with the UofC team! This presentation explores the journey of building FrontierSat, Calgary's first student-led mission to send a satellite to space! Register for free via Eventbrite! 💫🛰️

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The Journey of CalgaryToSpace

This presentation explores the journey of building FrontierSat, Calgary’s first student-led mission to send a satellite to space!

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RASC Calgary Centre @calgaryrasc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Alberta Star Party 2026 engage! Some local star observing before the night commences! (This wonderful human is Judy Sterner, our librarian and highly active council member.) Please tag us on any ASP photos! Photo by Garnet Tozer

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RASC Calgary Centre @calgaryrasc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Last chance to pre-register for the Alberta Star Party! Online registration closes on Thursday at 8pm (you can also register in person on-site, so fret not!) Link: calgary.rasc.ca/wp/?page_id=...

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ASP Alberta Star Party | RASC Calgary Centre

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RASC Calgary Centre @calgaryrasc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Registration for our Alberta Star Party 2026 is now open! Catch the link in our bio! Join us for the 40th anniversary! ✨🔭⛺️

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launch Credit: NASA/John Kraus images.nasa.gov/details/NHQ2... #Roman 🔭🧪

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope on board is seen transiting the sun during launch from Launch Complex 39A, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, named after the agency’s first chief astronomer, will survey billions of stars and galaxies with a field of view far larger than Hubble’s, helping scientists study dark energy, exoplanets and the evolution of the universe.

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Jason Nishiyama @evilscientistca.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

M17 is an emission nebula located about 5500 ly away in the constellation of Sagittarius. It is an HII region, that is a region containing large amounts of ionized hydrogen. Stars are being formed here. #astronomy

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Chris Fisher @fisherspeaks.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The bitter-sweet fall migration of our songbirds is underway. Lovely to see them - but sad to see them go! #birds #AB

A western tanager pauses on migration in green foliage.

An American redstart pauses on migration in green foliage.

A Warbling Vireo pauses on migration in green foliage.

A Tennessee Warbler pauses on migration in green foliage.

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Alberta Community Bat Program/Western Bat Program 🦇 @albertabats.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tools of a Bat Biologist: Bat Detectors 🦇 Bats navigate and hunt using ultrasonic calls—sounds too high for us to hear. Bat detectors bring those calls into our hearing range and allow biologists to record and examine them. What can we learn by listening to bats? A thread… 1/2

Dimly lit photo of a masked bat biologist holding a bat bag in one hand and a detector in the other. Labels read "Bat in bag" pointing at bag (shown with lines indicating an echolocating bat inside vocalizing) and the labels Yuma? Little Brown? around the detector. Text reads Hand-held detectors- Used by our Western Bat Team along with morphological measurements to distinguish Little Brown Myotis from Yuma Myotis Photo by Jordi Segers

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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

AURORA ALERT 🚨 NOAA has a G2 (moderate) geomagnetic storm watch up for Friday Aug 28, with G1 conditions Thursday. Two CMEs from Tuesday's M7 flare may clip Earth. Northern U.S. and Canada in play, plus a nearly total lunar eclipse Thursday night. Here's the rundown 👇 #heliophysics

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Jason Nishiyama @evilscientistca.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It is rare to find PN in clusters as the clusters tend to drift apart before the stars that make PN get to that stage of evolution.

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Jason Nishiyama @evilscientistca.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

M46 is an open cluster located about 4900 ly away in the constellation of Puppis. The planetary nebula NGC 2438 appears to be in the cluster, but is a foreground object, being only about 1400 ly away from us. #astronomy

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Jason Nishiyama @evilscientistca.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) is a long period comet that passed through the inner solar system in 2023. The long period comets are thought to originate in the Oort cloud, a cloud of cometary bodies surrounding the solar system upwards of 1 ly from the Sun. #astronomy

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 22/08/2026

🔭 Mostly Perseids Image Credit & Copyright: Jakub Koukal (Valašské Meziříčí Observatory) ap260822

See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download
the highest resolution version available.

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Jason Nishiyama @evilscientistca.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

M95 is a barred spiral galaxy located about 33 Mly away in the constellation of Leo. Unlike normal spirals, barred spirals have a prominent bar of stars moving through their cores as seen in M95. Our own Galaxy is a barred spiral.

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Alberta Community Bat Program/Western Bat Program 🦇 @albertabats.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A busy weekend at Dinosaur Provincial Park! We participated in their festival celebrating dark skies, stars, and nocturnal wildlife this weekend. Hosted the bat booth, gave a bat talk and led a bat walk on Saturday evening to 64 participants! A beautiful summer weekend in Alberta!🦇

A Western Small-footed Myotis peers out from a rock roost. This is a small 5gram bat with yellow fur and black ears, face and wings. Photo by Jason Headley.

A photo of the Dinosaur Provincial Park pavilion in front of the visitor centre. Blue sky and badlands in the background. Photo: SHolroyd

Photo of a box on a sandy area with the words Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta stamped on it (this is used by interpreters who lead groups on fossil exploration excursions in the protected area of the park). The background is a spectacular vista of the Alberta badlands and blue sky. Photo: SHolroyd

A photo of a prickly-pear cactus at ground level against a blue sky. Sharp eyes might find a remnant fossil in the stones in the foreground of the photo (you can go many steps without finding something in this area!) Photo: SHolroyd

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RASC Calgary Centre @calgaryrasc.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Our stargazing adventure with the public last night in Dinosaur Provincial Park occurred with this amazing trio playing in the moonlight. #astronomy outreach

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RASC Calgary Centre @calgaryrasc.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Are we the coolest gang of astronomers in the Dinosaur Provincial Park badlands tonight? Yes. Yes, we are. #astronomy #outreach

A group of astronomers with their telescopes are ready for tonight’s outreach event in concert (literally) with a string trio in the normally closed part of the badlands in Dinosaur Provincial Park.

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RASC Calgary Centre @calgaryrasc.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Our stargazing adventure with the public last night in Dinosaur Provincial Park occurred with this amazing trio playing in the moonlight. #astronomy outreach

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 23/08/2026

Hey Canada. Support Canadian artists

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

A hand-colored illustration from my 1869 copy of ‘Canadian Wild Flowers’ by Agnes Dunbar Fitzgibbon, considered “one of the first serious botanical works published in Canada.” The accompanying text (added to alt text) is by her aunt, Canadian naturalist Catharine Parr Traill. 🇨🇦 🌱 🥀

An illustration centered on a yellow orchid. To its right are several blue irises and below a small species of orchid. Parr’s description of the yellow orchid: Ballot Daup's Slippers.
Cypripèdium parviforum and Cypripèdium pubéscens.
"And golden slippers meet for Faries' feet."
HIS ornamental family are remarkable alike for the singular beauty of their flowers, and the peculiar arrangement of the internal organs. In the Linnæan classification they were included in common, with all the Orchis tribe, in
the class Gynandria, but in the Natural Order of Jussieu, which we have followed, the "Lady's Slipper" (Cypripèdium), forms one of the sub-orders in the general Order ORCHIDACEE.
Of the two species represented in our Artist's group, the larger and central flower is Cypripèdium pubéscens, the smaller, C. parviflorum, or LESSER LADY's SLIPPEr. The latter is, perhaps, the more elegant and graceful plant, and is also somewhat fragrant. The sepals and petals are longer and more spiral, but the colouring of the lip is not so rich and vivid as in the larger flower, C. Pubéscens.”

#bloomsky #sciart #booksky

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Oh for a teleportation device .... 🤩🔭

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RASC Calgary Centre @calgaryrasc.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Are we the coolest gang of astronomers in the Dinosaur Provincial Park badlands tonight? Yes. Yes, we are. #astronomy #outreach

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American Bird Conservancy @abcbirds.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The night sky is a highway for migrating birds, so what happens when it stops being dark? 🌙 The Federal Communications Commission recently greenlit the launch & operation of a test satellite for a company called Reflect Orbital. Read more from @nbcnews.com: abcbirds.info/4i9qw8P

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RASC Calgary Centre @calgaryrasc.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We are at Dinosaur Provincial Park for our annual Astronomical Extravaganza www.albertaparks.ca/parks/south/...

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Astronomical Extravaganza | Dinosaur Provincial Park | Alberta Parks

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RASC Calgary Centre @calgaryrasc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

While out at night in #Alberta’s Dinosaur Provincial Park we looked for fluorescent scorpions with our UV lamps. We also ran into a rattlesnake. #astronomy outreach event

A fluorescent light blue scorpion discovered at night using an ultraviolet lamps

A sinuous prairie rattlesnake under ultraviolet illumination. We noticed that the underbelly and the rattle on the tail (lower right) were slightly fluorescent

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RASC Calgary Centre @calgaryrasc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

While out at night in #Alberta’s Dinosaur Provincial Park we looked for fluorescent scorpions with our UV lamps. We also ran into a rattlesnake. #astronomy outreach event

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

One of a set of 32 astronomical star-chart cards known as Urania’s Mirror or a View of the Heavens published in around 1825. Each card is pierced with holes corresponding in size to the magnitudes of the brightest stars. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/u...

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RASC Calgary Centre @calgaryrasc.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We are at Dinosaur Provincial Park for our annual Astronomical Extravaganza www.albertaparks.ca/parks/south/...

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Astronomical Extravaganza | Dinosaur Provincial Park | Alberta Parks

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Jason Nishiyama @evilscientistca.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Abell 2666 is a galaxy cluster located about 350 Mly away in the constellation of Pegasus. Galaxies tend to be found in clusters as minor fluctuations in the energy of the Big Bang caused mater to coalesce in regions around voids. #astronomy

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SkyCalPro | Kev @skycalpro.com · 20/08/2026

Visible in the next hour: Lunar Clair-obscur effect - Two Bright Stars. See image for viewing guide. #Astronomy #MoonHour

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RASC Calgary Centre @calgaryrasc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

CALGARY! 🛰️✨ Join us on Saturday, September 19 at 4:30PM with UCalgary’s CalgaryToSpace team for “The Journey of CalgaryToSpace” at @telus-spark.bsky.social’s Infinity Dome Theatre! Register your spot for free via Eventbrite (link in bio)! We can’t wait to see you there! 🫶💫

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SkyCalPro | Kev @skycalpro.com · 20/08/2026

Visible in the next hour: Lunar Clair-obscur effect - The Face in Albategnius. See image for viewing guide. #Astronomy #MoonHour

The The Face in Albategnius lunar light effect

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RASC Calgary Centre @calgaryrasc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

First quarter phase today (thanks @skycalpro.com for the heads up!). The #Moon is still pretty low in the sky and wildfire smoke is still creating an orange pall over everything. Here’s a minute of video as taken with an iPhone through a non-tracking #telescope. #astronomy

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Jason Nishiyama @evilscientistca.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The double cluster is a pair of open clusters located about 7500 ly away in the constellation Perseus. Unlike most objects in space that appear close to each other but aren't, these two clusters are actually only a few hundred ly apart. #astronomy

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RASC Calgary Centre @calgaryrasc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Nearly 8 hours of #timelapse that captured overnight #aurora and a serene #sunrise from near Carseland, #Alberta. #astronomy

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