2009 Sleaford Open House

October 23 and 24: An invitation.

"Celebrating the Night Sky", an IYA art show, September 2 - October 1, 2009

Download info here.

Sleaford Observatory

One of the benefits of membership with our Centre is access to our remote viewing site at Sleaford. The telephone number at the Sleaford site is 255-2045. For users of our site, here is some reading material (pdf format):


SCN-TV Video

To learn more about the Saskatchewan Summer Star Party and the CHIPP Dark-Dky Preserve, see us online on SCN-TV 15-Minutes of Fame at: SCN-TV Choose: Season 1, Episode 14

This clip is 13-minutes long and was shot at the 2006 Sask Summer Star Party.


Light Pollution Abatement Committee

We are fighting light pollution! The Saskatchewan Light Pollution Abatement Committee is a collaboration between the Saskatoon and Regina RASC Centres and a number of other key people in the province. See: http://www.ras.sk.ca/lpc/lpc.htm.


Observing and Beginner's Groups

The RASC Saskatoon Centre has a very active Observing Group. Contact the Observing Group Coordinator for details of the group's activities.

The Observing Group has an Observer's Yahoo Group for observing discussions, announcements and notices.

For beginning amateur astronomers there is a Beginners Yahoo Group to join.

National RASC Activities

The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada has many activities nationwide.


RASC Saskatoon Centre Raffle 2006/2007

The Saskatoon Centre RASC held a raffle featuring a spectacular hand made Star Blanket and some other very cool prizes. For details please see: RASC Raffle.


RASC Membership Activities

Here's a list of RASC member contributions to astronomy:
  1. SASKATCHEWAN AMATEUR ASTRONOMER DISCOVERS COMET! Comet Petriew! Congratulations to Regina astronomer Vance Petriew who discovered the comet at the 2001 Saskatchewan Summer Star Party! IAUC update number 2 on Comet Petriew has been released giving more post discovery information.

  2. CHANT MEDAL. In 2001, Rick Huziak received the prestigious Chant Medal. Congratulations Rick! We are very proud of your accomplishments in amateur astronomy and are very lucky to have you around. Rick is also the recipient of the AAVSO Director's Award, presented to him at the 92nd AAVSO Tuscon Conference.

  3. Saskatoon Centre RASC Astrophoto Page. Great astrophotos by our members.

  4. 2016+47C 100 COMP E This variable star, popularly called Huziak's Star, was noticed by Rick Huziak to be a variable. While he did not discover the star, he had independently noticed that it was variable. The star appears as a comparison (!) star on the AAVSO's U Cyg charts. The AAVSO has known it to be variable for a number of years. Observe it if you can!

  5. Rick Huziak's Great Canadian Observing Challenge.

  6. Rick Huziak's Geosynchronous Satellite Page

  7. Data from Tenho Tuomi's magnetometer at Lucky Lake, Saskatchewan.

  8. Video Videos of the January 5, 2008 fireball, from the camera "fireball2" and from the camera "fireball3".

Members Only

  1. Membership List (2005)