New Horizons Pluto Mission

The latest video from our April 17th, 2015 public talk has just been posted on our YouTube Channel. Our speaker is Dr John Spencer from the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder. Dr. Spencer discusses the many remarkable things that we already know about the Pluto system, the long journey of New Horizons from conception to the launch pad,

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Public Star Night 17 April – Dr John Spencer – NASA’s New Horizons Mission to Pluto and beyond

Our speaker for this evening will be Dr John Spencer from the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder and the title of his talk will be “NASA’s New Horizons Mission to Pluto and beyond”.

On July 14th 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will make the first-ever encounter with the dwarf planet Pluto,

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Public Star Night 20 March 2015 – Bryan White – Aurora Borealis

Our guest speaker is Bryan White, known from past years for his great 3-D comet slide show as well as an out of this world Aurora Borealis show. Bryan White has updated his show with new pictures from 2002, 2004, and 2006.  He thought it would be interesting for people to see that there is still outstanding Aurora in Yellowknife during the solar minimum. 

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Hello LTO!

February 25, 2015 1:30 p.m.

The new LTO website is up and running!

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