Month: July 2017

Cloudy skies with some light rain greeted 79 visitors (including 68 students and 11 adults) from the SHAD program, for solar observing at Western University’s Cronyn Observatory, Wednesday, July 12th, 2017, 2:00 p.m. The SHAD program is for highly gifted high school students from across Canada. They were welcomed in the lecture room by Professor Read More …

Clear skies greeted some 111 visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Summer Public Night, Saturday, July 8th, 2017, 8:30 p.m. Professor Margaret Campbell-Brown made 2 presentations of her digital slide presentation “Meteor Showers” and fielded questions. Undergraduate student Josh Folkerson was “crowd manager” for the evening and counted a total of 111 visitors.

Mostly clear skies greeted some 32 visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Summer Public Night, Saturday, July 1st, 2017, 8:30 p.m. Undergraduate student Meet Panchal made 3 presentations of his digital slide presentation on “Gravitational Waves” and fielded questions. Graduate student Richard Bloch was “crowd manager” for the evening and counted a total of 32 Read More …

Western University’s Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration (CPSX) in collaboration with the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Department of Earth Sciences hosted a special event at the Hume Cronyn Memorial Observatory on Asteroid Day, Friday, June 30, 2017. Asteroid Day is held each year on the anniversary of the 1908 Tunguska impact Read More …

Partly cloudy skies greeted 47 visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Summer Public Night, Saturday, June 24th, 2017, 8:30 p.m. Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Andrew Pon made 2 presentations of his digital slide presentation “The Most Spectacular Images from Astronomy, and the Science behind Them” and fielded questions. Undergraduate student Roy Zang was “crowd manager” and Read More …