@rascvancouver.bsky.social
All things astronomical; free monthly lectures, access to Trottier Observatory @SFU, free loaner telescopes, and star parties! Astronomy newcomers & experts welcome! Free monthly events as well 👀 yes, a real human makes the posts (hi) rasc-vancouver.com
hi! coming up this Thursday evening is our February lecture! if you're an astrophotography nerd, this might be the night for you 👀
🔗: www.meetup.com/astronomy-13...
tickets, as always, are totally free!
thanks to @sfuscience.bsky.social @sfuphysics.bsky.social and @sfu.ca!
mother nature has been kind to us! come hang out with us and the fine folks with @sfuscience.bsky.social and learn about the night sky!
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come on up the mountain!! it's been a long long time since we had good weather, come say hi and nerd out with us!
16.01.2026 20:20 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The forecast is gloomy for tonight, so we're not going ahead with Starry Nights tonight. Keep your fingers crossed for better weather soon!
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happy 2026! coming up next week is our first meeting of the new year with NASA Solar System Ambassador Matthew Borghese.
deets:
www.meetup.com/astronomy-13...
like all of our events, it's totally free and open to the public. hope to see y'all Jan 8th!
Happy New Year!
May clear skies and perfect collimation find you in 2026. Among other things, of course.
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this is happening tonight!! if you're looking for an escape from the rain why not hang out with a bunch of nerds at the @spacecentreyvr.bsky.social ??
free tickets at the link below 👇
Green clouds in the sky in Vancouver. Photo taken next to a red and white lighthouse in the park by the inlet. Across the water are city lights from North Vancouver and the North Shore mountains
Hey Vancouver, the auroras are out 😍
Photo taken tonight in Stanley Park
If you have a very low-latitude aurora observation from tonight, please record your exact time and rough location and DO NOT DELETE your photo. These observations will be important for scientific research of this event.
Comment below if you have a low-latitude aurora sighting.
yeah we have some questions about that, too
12.11.2025 05:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
hey astro friends, just wondering.
what kind of aurora is grey, billowy, and tinged by light pollution?
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An infographic showing how different aurora colors are produced by different gasses at various altitudes in the atmosphere.
I’ve seen this shared several times with the header and footer not visible, so you can’t see the artists’s name.
Credit: Leo the Alien — alienyrox on redbubble and other platforms.
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12.11.2025 04:58 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
to those of you with a nice, clear view of the #aurora tonight:
happy for you. great. love that for you. must be nice. enjoy.
this is happening this week !!! tickets are free at the link down below or in our bio 👀👀👀
come say hi to us at the @spacecentreyvr.bsky.social !!
this is happening in under a week !!! come on out to the @spacecentreyvr.bsky.social for some real honest to goodness space content !!!
free tickets free tickets free tickets free tickets
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helloooooooooooooooooooo
wanna learn about telescopes and how to navigate the night sky? funny you mention that, because we're doing another starhopping and telescopes night with @spacecentreyvr.bsky.social on november 12!!
get your f r e e tickets here:
🔗 www.eventbrite.ca/e/rasc-vanco...
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Interstellar comet 3I/Atlas is flying past Mars today. Might get some cool views!
skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...
An #asteroid passed just 300 km above Antarctica earlier today. It was not discovered until hours after close approach.
01.10.2025 19:38 — 👍 206 🔁 68 💬 24 📌 23
cha-cha-cha
monthly lecture announcement time:
🔗: www.meetup.com/astronomy-13...
Jennie "Starstuff" King will be hanging out with us up at SFU Burnaby on Oct. 9th! She'll be going over some of the latest space news, and a little field trip she took 👀
Come hang out with us!
Tickets are starting to dwindle for tonight's free monthly lecture hosted at the @spacecentreyvr.bsky.social! The lecture will start just after 7:30pm, but doors will be open about 15 minutes ahead of time for folks to find their seats.
(free) tickets here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/rasc-vanco...
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The SFU Trottier Observatory and Science Courtyard at night. The hatch is open on the observatory dome and the courtyard is lit up in the spectrum of the sun. A handful of shadowy people are standing around telescopes.
Starry Nights is ON tonight! Join us in person at Burnaby campus, 8:30-11:30pm for views of Andromeda Galaxy, Caroline's Rose cluster and Saturn with @sfuphysics.bsky.social and @rascvancouver.bsky.social! www.sfu.ca/science/comm...
19.09.2025 20:07 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0hiiii please look
12.09.2025 22:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🙏🙏🙏😭
12.09.2025 22:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0but uh. we always hope it IS aliens, because that would be cool.
10.09.2025 15:44 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0remember: it's never aliens until it's Actually, Totally, Completely, 100%, "Yup, that's an alien," aliens.
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and if you want to keep an eye out for more of our events, here's a link to our meetup page where we post everything we do!
🔗: www.meetup.com/astronomy-13...
#vancouver #yvr #free #astronomy #science #events
hi! our monthly lecture isn't taking place this week, but is instead taking place next week: friday september 19th at the @spacecentreyvr.bsky.social! for this lecture we're asking you to get tickets - which are free - just so we can keep track of seating!
🔗: www.eventbrite.ca/e/rasc-vanco...
