Speakers and topics from the beginning of the new program in 2010:
| Centre | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Halifax | Elder Murdena Marshall | Mi'kmaq night sky story “Muin and the Seven Bear Hunters |
| London, Windsor, Hamilton, Sarnia | Paul Gray | Barnard's Dark Nebulae Trials and Tribulations of a Supernova Hunter |
| Sunshine Coast | Dr. Jaymie Matthews | Where Will Avatar 2 Be Set? - The Real Science of Exotic Exoplanets |
| Toronto and Mississauga | Wilfred Buck (Manitoba) | First Nations Astronomy |
| Centre | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Sunshine Coast | Bill Phillips | Unravelling the mystery of 'Sagittarius A' |
| Saskatoon | Dr. Aaron Price | Citizen Science, IYA, and the AAVSO 100 years |
| Regina | Alan Dyer | Astrophotography on the Prairies |
| Kingston | Patrice Scattolin | Space Exploration From the Ground Up |
| Calgary | Glen Fountain | New Horizons |
| Centre | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Calgary | Dr. P.Z. Myers | Making Aliens |
| Sunshine Coast | Bill Phillips | Asteroids 101 |
| Saskatoon | Alan Dyer | To the Ends of the Earth: Tales of the Transit of Venus |
| Regina | Randall Rosenfeld | Perceiving New Worlds: The Transit of Venus Across the Centuries |
| Hamilton | Terry Dickinson | The good years and the bad years of astronomy |
| Winnipeg | Murray Paulson | Meteorite Hunting |
| Halifax | Tim Doucette | Deep-Sky Eye |
| Vancouver | Sara Seager | Exoplanets |
| Victoria | Ken Tapping | Recent Developments in Solar Research |
| Centre | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| New Brunswick | James Edgar | Synthesis of Elements in Stars |
| Sunshine Coast | Stanley Yen | Missing Solar Neutrinos |
| Sunshine Coast | Bill Phillips | History of Man-made Satellites |
| Ontario Various (Ottawa, Kingston, Toronto, Kitchener-Waterloo, Mississauga, Hamilton) and Montréal | David Levy | A Nightwatchman's Journey |
| Victoria | Debra Fischer | Exploring the Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems |
| Regina | Peter McMahon | Wilderness Astronomy |
| Date | Centre | Speaker/Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 27 | Vancouver | Dr. Nancy Chabot / Messenger Mission |
| Mar 15 | Calgary | Bonnie Buratti / The Rosetta Mission |
| Apr 13 | Sunshine Coast | Stanley Yen / Supernova Neutrinos |
| Jul 12 | Mississauga | Andrew Chaikin / Apollo 8 |
| Aug 06 | Sunshine Coast | Sarah Pearce / Life in the Solar System |
| Aug 24 | Yukon | Charles Ennis / Making Starry Nights |
| Sep 02 | Sunshine Coast | Dr. Sean Dougherty / Canada's Telescopes |
| Sep 02 | Sunshine Coast | Dr. Jeremy Heyl / Precision Astronomy |
| Sep 03 | Sunshine Coast | Leigh Cummings / Mars Exploration |
| Sep 03 | Winnipeg | Paul Gray / Dark Nebulae |
| Sep 14 | Sunshine Coast | Richard Shaw / CHIME |
| Sep 21 | Yukon | Chris Gainor / Hubble Space Telescope |
| Oct 12 | Ontario X 4 | James Edgar / Synthesis of Elements in Stars |
| Oct 20 | New Brunswick | Dave Chapman / In Search of the 13th Mi'qmaw Moon |
| Nov 05 | Sunshine Coast | Bill Wall / Large Millimetre Telescope Alfonso Serano |
| Nov 08 | New Brunswick | Doug Cunningham / The Poetic Experience of Astronomy |
| Dec 10 | Sunshine Coast | Chris Gainor / Hubble Space Telescope |
| Dec 10 | Sunshine Coast | Sarah Savic Kallesoe / Neils Bohr Institute |
$3424.11 was reimbursed to speakers (6 speakers waived payment).
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