2023 International Astronomy Day In Victoria

Set For UVic On Sunday April 30th

The public is invited to daytime activities at the Bob Wright Centre on the Ring Road at the University of Victoria on Sunday April 30 from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

The Victoria Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada and the UVic Department of Physics and Astronomy are proud to sponsor family-friendly Astronomy Day activities, which will begin outside the Bob Wright Centre at 11 a.m. with solar telescopes for safely viewing the sun on the main concourse. The shift of daytime Astronomy Day activities to Sunday means that there will be FREE PARKING for the public at UVic.

Inside the Bob Wright Centre there will be astrophotography and historical displays, and tours of the Bob Wright Centre Observatory. RASC volunteers and Science Venture staff from the University of Victoria will engage children with hands-on activities. All the astronomy presentations, displays and workshops are free.

There will be free lecture presentations on astronomy in the Bob Wright Centre by Dr. Deborah Lochorst of the NRC on the DRAGONFLY Telescope, Simon Smith of the NRC on Dwarf Galaxies, Xiaoyi Ma of UVic on Finding Exoplanets, Nathan Hellner-Mestleman of Mount Doug High School on Life in Space, and David Lee of the RASC on Astrophotography the Easy Way.