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A clear slightly hazy sky greeted 36 visitors (19 children and 17 adults) from the Jean Vanier Catholic School Grade-6 class to the Cronyn Observatory for Exploring the Stars, Thursday, October 25th, 7:00 p.m. Since the lecture room beneath the dome was not available, graduate students Emily McCullough and Allison Hill arranged chairs in the Read More …
Partly cloudy skies greeted 25 visitors (24 students and 1 instructor) from Western University’s History, Science & Technology class to the Cronyn Observatory for Exploring the Stars, Wednesday, October 24th, 7:00 p.m. Since the lecture room beneath the dome was not available, graduate students Allison Hill and Emily McCullough arranged chairs in the dome to Read More …
Overcast skies and misty rain greeted 34 visitors, including 25 children and 9 adults, from St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Secondary School grade-9 class to the Cronyn Observatory for Exploring the Stars, Wednesday, October 23rd, 7:00 p.m. Graduate student Tyler Desjardins made two digital slide presentations, the first one being “Mars” and the second one, “Seeing Read More …
A partly cloudy sky greeted 22 visitors, including 10 children and 12 adults, from the 26th Scouting Group to the Cronyn Observatory for Exploring the Stars, Thursday, October 18th, 7:00 p.m. Bringing the group immediately upstairs into the dome, graduate students Emily McCullough and Allison Hill showed them the crescent Moon through the big 25.4cm Read More …
A clear sky with some hazy clouds greeted 13 visitors from the Space Society of London to the Cronyn Observatory for Exploring the Stars on Wednesday, October 17th, 7:00 p.m. Graduate student Tyler Desjardins made the digital slide presentation, “Mars,” and this was followed by observing.