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Outreach & Tours

The Allan I. Carswell Astronomical Observatory has been a prominent hub for science outreach to the broader community since 1969. About 5,000 visitors a year visited the Observatory for in person public viewing on Wednesday nights; online public viewing opportunities have increased with the pandemic and expanded engagement. Our most popular regular events are York Universe Radio Show on Monday nights, Online Public Viewing (that runs during the radio show), TeleTube YouTube shows on Wednesday nights, Public Observing and Group Tours.

Monday Nights: York Universe Radio Show Podcast and Online Public Viewing

Galaxy NGC 7331 about 40 million light-years away, captured on the 1-metre telescope

The York Universe Radio Show is broadcast on Monday nights 9-10 pm ET (except holidays) on YouTube. Recently we have also launched as a Podcast and can be found whereever you get your podcasts. Tune in every week for an exciting broadcast about astronomy, this week in history, and amazing interviews! Running simultaneously with York Universe is our Online Public Viewing on YouTube. You can tune in for live images from our telescopes (weather allowing), astronomical images, and chats with the Observatory student crew.

Podcast main site - Amazon, Apple, Spotify and more!

Podcast RSS Feed

See below for our clickable York Universe Episode Oldies Archive, browse through time and space and have a listen to some of our previous shows, most before we launched into podcast territory! This archive was assembled by Rob Keown from astronomy.fm and observatory members: 
  • Kasra Fard (code and system design)
  • Sorena Sharifzadeh, Arfa Ali, Mani Mehdipoor, Halima Mohamud, Obada Wazwaz, and Marianna Veltri (archive detectives)

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