HR MacMillan Space Centre - Just for Teachers

Resources to help you teach about astronomy, space science and sustainability

The HR MacMillan Space Centre located in Vancouver, BC is a popular field trip destination. Look here for resources to help you with teaching space science and astronomy in your classroom. www.spacecentre.ca

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Iron Science

Calling all science teachers! Are you interested in blowing stuff up? Does a 'normal' day in your class involve safety gear? Are you making the science of learning fun and active?

If you answered yes to any of those questions (or even just 'maybe') then you owe it to yourself to check out the Iron Science Competition (www.ironscience.ca)

The HR MacMillan Space Centre, (in partnership with Science World), is hosting the BC division here on January 22nd 2010 and we would love to have a… Continue

Posted by Cam on October 15, 2009 at 2:17pm

Kasun Somaratne

How I saw Neptune

I have been wanting to see Neptune for a very long time. On many occasions I have tried to observe this distant world but I have failed for various reasons. Mostly due to the not so dark skies around my house in Surrey. Sometimes it is confusing to find the 7.8 magnitude faint Neptune among a bunch of 5 or 6 magnitude stars near by. But my lucky moment arrived in the early morning of July 10th (2009).



I read on SkyNews magazine that Jupiter was passing by Neptune for the next few… Continue

Posted by Kasun Somaratne on July 13, 2009 at 8:00pm

Kasun Somaratne

2 ways to impress the crowd at a Starparty!

If you are into stargazing this site is a must know. heavens-above.com gives you pretty much everything you need to know about those mysterious slow moving stars that you might come across if you stare at the sky for just as little as 5 minutes. After you have created an account with your location on Earth it will tell you when you could see ISS, Hubble, Iridium flares, other major satellites, and occasionally the space shuttle when it is in orbit.… Continue

Posted by Kasun Somaratne on June 9, 2009 at 8:30pm

Kasun Somaratne

Comet Lulin (The green comet)

So I heared about this comet from one of my friends and decided to check it out myself. This comet actually looks green. That is due to C2 and CN gases that gets released due to sunlight as the comet gets closer to the sun. This comet is in a highly eccentric orbit which means that it will not come around the sun for another long long time.



So I went outside at around 8.30pm despite the bitter cold wind with my 20X50 binoculars to find the comet. Before I went outside I looked online… Continue

Posted by Kasun Somaratne on February 26, 2009 at 10:42pm

Kasun Somaratne

International Astronomy Year Begins!

It's been 400 years since Galileo first had a look at the stars through his telecope. This Galileo moment was the first step in our current scientific understanding of the universe.



Wonder how Galileo felt when he saw phases in Venus, moons of Jupiter and rings of Saturn for the first time? Well if you haven't seen these already you will have a very good chance of seeing them yourself this year as the whole world turn towards the night sky. The United Nations has declared the year… Continue

Posted by Kasun Somaratne on January 1, 2009 at 12:00am

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Spacecraft Photographs Avalanches on Mars

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Rubik's Cube In Center Of Earth?

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Iron Science

Calling all science teachers! Are you interested in blowing stuff up? Does a 'normal' day in your class involve safety gear? Are you making the science of learning fun and active?If you answered yes to any of those questions (or even just 'maybe') then you owe it to yourself to check out the Iron Science Competition (www.ironscience.ca)The HR MacMillan Space Centre, (in partnership with Science World), is hosting the BC division here on January 22nd 2010 and we would love to have a whole gang…See More
Blog post by Cam Oct 15, 2009
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The 26m Telescope at DRAO. Built in 1960 this telescope is the second largest single dish telescope in Canada. The largest is in Algonquian Park in Ontario (46m). I work with this telescope on a survey called GMIMS (Global Magneto-ionic Medium…
Jul 14, 2009
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One of the 7 antennas that make up the synthesis telescope.
Jul 14, 2009
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The synthesis telescope of DRAO. Together these 7 antennas function as an equivalent telescope with a 600m diameter.
Jul 14, 2009
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The 22MHz T shaped array at DRAO was operational near the end of 1960's. Now it is a tourist attraction. There are 1698 wooden poles altogether. it is 1.3Km long in E-W and 400m long in N-S.
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