Music. Moonlight. Telescopes. On August 5th, Ten Telescopes and the Guelph Symphony Orchestra are once again joining forces for one of our favourite events of the year: Symphony Under the Stars III at the Riverside Park Bandshell. Over the past two years, hundreds of people have gathered under the summer sky to experience something truly unique. As the orchestra performs beneath the striking Riverside Park Bandshell, audiences settle onto blankets and lawn chairs, surrounded by telescopes,...

This spring, members of the Hamilton Centre of the RASC gathered at the Ten Telescopes workshop to build something special: the first ten of thirty Skyward 200 telescopes for the Young Galileos program. The photos tell the story. Volunteers spent their weekends assembling tripods, fitting components, and transforming boxes of parts into rows of finished telescopes destined for young astronomers and their families. What makes this project particularly exciting is that these aren't toy...

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