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Mostly cloudy skies greeted visitors to the Cronyn Observatory Open House, Saturday, June 22nd, 2013, 8:30 p.m. Faculty member Dr. Pauline Barmby began the first of 2 presentations of her digital slide presentation, “The Summer Solstice and the Supermoon,” before and audience of 23 people, which increased to 47 visitors by the end of the Read More …
On Tuesday, June 11th, Dave McCarter was at Camp Sylvan as Astronomy support for the Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority children’s program. The event was scheduled from around 7:45—10:45 p.m. There were 24 grade-8 students and 5 parents from Northbrae Public School (London, Ontario) plus the Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority staff. Dave gave his slide presentation, Read More …
Mostly cloudy skies greeted visitors to the Cronyn Observatory Open House, Saturday, June 15th, 2013, 8:30 p.m. Faculty member Dr. Jan Cami helped graduate student Neil Bhatt set up a spectroscopy demonstration using 3 gas discharge lamps on a table at the front of the lecture room. Neil made his digital slide presentation, “The Mysterious Read More …
Partly cloudy skies greeted visitors to the Cronyn Observatory Open House, Saturday, June 8th, 2013, 8:30 p.m. Graduate student Robbie Halonen made his digital slide presentations, “The Search for Another Earth.” Graduate students Jeff Bailey and David Stock operated the big 25.4cm refractor in the dome and managed the crowd, respectively. RASC London Centre member Read More …
Cloudy skies greeted 16 visitors to the Cronyn Observatory Open House, Saturday, June 1st, 2013, 8:30 p.m. Graduate student Abedin Y. Abedin made his digital slide presentation “Comets: The Dirty Snowball Model.” Graduate student Matt Shannon assisted and faculty member Dr. Peter Brown was also there. Dale Armstrong, Peter Jedicke and Dave McCarter represented the Read More …