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Partly cloudy skies greeted visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Summer Public Night, Saturday, July 26th, 2014, 8:30 p.m. Since there was no slide projector immediately available graduate student Abedin Abedin gave his first talk “Comets” without slides. He later made his second presentation of “Comets” with slides after the basement storeroom was finally unlocked Read More …
Cloudy skies with some later clearing greeted visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Summer Public Night, Saturday, July 19th, 2014, 8:30 p.m. Graduate student Neil Bhatt made his digital slide presentation “The Sun” and fielded questions. Graduate student Nina Ivkovich was crowd manager and counted 14 visitors by 9:00 p.m. after 3 people had left. Read More …
Cloudy skies greeted RASC London Centre Public Outreach Coordinator and Past President Dave McCarter for the slide presentation and star night at Fanshawe Conservation Area, Saturday, July 12th, 2014, 9:10—10:30 p.m. Since the sky was cloudy Dave did not set up his telescope but made his digital slide presentation “Space: It’s Closer Than You Think” Read More …
Partly cloudy skies greeted 76—later increasing to 84—International and Exchange Students to the Cronyn Observatory, Thursday, July 17th, 2014: 9:00 p.m. Graduate student Parshati Patel showed digital slides and discussed the Cronyn Observatory and astronomy courses at Western University as well as organizations such as the RASC London Centre, the Space Society of London (SSoL), Read More …
Partly cloudy later clearing skies greeted 38 visitors, including 30 youth and 8 counsellors from the Indigenous Services Mini-University Camp at Western University to the Cronyn Observatory, Tuesday, July 15th, 2014: 9:00 p.m. Graduate student Tony Martinez began with a short digital slide presentation "Introduction to Cronyn Observatory" followed by his digital slide presentation "Solar Read More …