Yukon Astronomical Society

The Yukon Astronomical Society (RASC: Yukon Centre) is a Yukon-based non-profit organization devoted to popularizing astronomy, and all related sciences.

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Our next star party is August 25 and 26. Hope to see you there!

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Viewing the sun and the moon.

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Happy equinox!

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I was doing some snow shoveling in preparation for the star party (March 24 and 25, see https://t.co/XKcTHAIQ3y) and I had to stop to admire the view.

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Hole in the clouds! Time to check out what the sun is doing today.

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We're really looking forward to our star party this weekend! Hope to see you there. https://t.co/9wwEkzv0LB

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Looking up the hill at our observatory on a late summer evening.

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Canada’s instrument NIRISS on #Webb reveals the distinct signature of water 💧 in the atmosphere of a hot, puffy gas giant planet orbiting a distant Sun-like star. It also shows evidence of haze and clouds that previous studies of this planet did not detect. ☁

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Oh wow! 🤩 Canada’s NIRISS on #Webb has found water in the atmosphere of exoplanet WASP-96 b! 💧 ☁️

Check it out 👇

Credit: CSA, NASA, ESA, STScI, Christine Daniloff/MIT, Julien de Wit, NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt, T. Pyle

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It's here–the deepest, sharpest infrared view of the universe to date: Webb's First Deep Field.

Previewed by @POTUS on July 11, it shows galaxies once invisible to us. The full set of @NASAWebb's first full-color images & data will be revealed July 12: https://t.co/63zxpNDi4I

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The next Astro 101 is tonight starting at 6:30pm at the Whitehorse Public Library (downstairs meeting room) or online via Google Meet. Hope to see you then!

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Sungazing at @fireweedmarket this afternoon.

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Sungazing at Front St and Steele St.

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Thanks to @sdssurveys for taking the images, and @Mikea1985 for finding them for us!

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Asteroid (10112) Skookumjim. The images are 54 second exposures taken by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in January 2006, with the second image taken about 5 minutes after the first.

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Distant asteroid now bears Tagish adventurer Skookum Jim’s name https://t.co/5RjGsATBBt

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Thank you to all of those who came to our Moon Party and learned about the Moon and the upcoming Artemis missions! 🌒 🚀 ✨

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Catching some rays, but not too many!

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Visited the observatory this afternoon to shovel some snow and got treated to this lovely view. Clouds are terrible for astronomical observing, but sure are pretty.

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Doing a bit of observing tonight.