Month: February 2014

Mostly cloudy skies greeted 17 visitors (13 children and 4 adults) from the Masonville 77th Cub Scouts at the Cronyn Observatory for Exploring the Stars, Thursday, February 6th, 2014, 7:00 p.m. Graduate student Shannon Hicks made the digital slide presentation “Constellations” and around 7:25 p.m. brought everybody upstairs into the dome.

Graduate student Tony Martinez made the digital slide presentation “Brownies Astronomy Badge” before 7 visitors (3 children and 4 adults and leaders) from the 66th London Brownies at the Cronyn Observatory for Exploring the Stars, Tuesday, February 4th, 2014, 6:15 p.m.

Graduate student Parshati Patel made the digital slide presentation “Brownies & Sparks Astronomy Badge” before 43 visitors (26 children and 17 adults) from the 1st Dorchester Sparks and Brownies at the Cronyn Observatory for Exploring the Stars, Monday, February 3rd, 2014, 6:15 p.m. She followed this with the activity “Constellation”, distributing 25 “Star Finder” plansipheres Read More …

Graduate student Tony Martinez made the digital slide presentation “Constellations” before 13 visitors from the 2nd London Beavers, including 7 Beavers, 2 small children and 4 adults, at the Cronyn Observatory for Exploring the Stars, Tuesday, January 28th, 2014, 6:30 p.m. This was followed by questions and then Tony immediately introduced the activity “Kitchen Comet”, Read More …