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The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) is a national, non-profit, charitable organization devoted to the advancement of astronomy and related sciences. At present, there are 30 local branches of the Society, called Centres, in towns and cities across the country from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Victoria, British Columbia, and as far north as Whitehorse, Yukon.
Beginning with Ottawa in 1911, several Canadian cities hosted AAS meetings. Canada was also an early member of the International Astronomical Union, with activities coordinated through the Dominion Observatory. In the 1960s, university programmes in science expanded rapidly and astronomy groups and departments appeared across Canada.
Dominion Meteorological Building, 315 Bloor Street West, Toronto - now home to Munk School of Global Affairs; Dominion Observatory, Ottawa; Elginfield Astronomical Observatory, Middlesex Centre; Gustav Bakos Observatory, University of Waterloo, Waterloo; Hume Cronyn Memorial Observatory, University of Western Ontario, London
NRC-HAA also operates the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory outside of Penticton, British Columbia and the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre as well as managing Canadian involvement in the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, Gemini Observatory, Atacama Large Millimeter Array, the Square Kilometre Array, and the Thirty Meter Telescope, as well as Canada's national astronomy data centre.
Galaxy Zoo is an online astronomy project which invites members of the public to assist in the morphological classification of large numbers of galaxies. It is an example of citizen science as it enlists the help of members of the public to help in scientific research. An improved version—Galaxy Zoo 2—went live on 17 February 2009.
Astronomy North is a Canadian astronomical society for auroras. They collaborate with the project Aurora Max and the Canadian Space Agency. Website
The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Victoria Centre, which has a long association with the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory and public outreach dating back to 1914, holds free public "star parties" at the DAO on select summer Saturday evenings. [4]
The Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto is an astronomical research centre. [1] [2] [3]The institute was founded in 2008 with the help of endowed gifts to the University of Toronto from David M. Dunlap and J. Moffat Dunlap, [4] using the proceeds from the sale of the David Dunlap Observatory.
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