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The guest speaker for September will be RASC London Centre member Tyrone Klassen. His topic will be “The Electric Universe and the power of charged particles”. Come join us ! For more information about our meetings please see the Information Page.
The guest speaker for November will be Professor Pauline Barmby from Western’s Astronomy dept. Her talk is titled ‘Big Data in Astrophysics”. Pauline worked with the team that won the Nobel Prize for discovering that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating. Come join us ! For more information about our meetings please see the Information Read More …
Partly cloudy skies greeted visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory for the Total Lunar Eclipse, coincident with the Supermoon, Sunday, September 27th, 2015. This was also Western University’s Homecoming weekend, September 25th—27th, 2015. There was solar observing from around 3:00 p.m. in Western University’s Alumni/ Thompson Parking Lot, on the wide brick-paved sidewalk on the Read More …
By Robert Duff Display Case at Eldon House On Sunday evening, April 12th, 2015, 19th Century Star Gazing for Yuri Gagarin Night “Yuri’s Night” was celebrated at London’s Eldon House. The evening began with a presentation in the Interpretive Centre, 8:00 p.m., followed by stargazing with period and modern telescopes, 8:30—10:30 p.m. This event Read More …
RASC London Centre Honorary President Peter Jedicke visited St. Kateri Catholic School and spoke to 27 students and their teacher in the Grade-6 class on Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015, 10:30 a.m.—12 noon. Peter showed them slides about the solar system and space travel and touched on key concepts in the Ontario Science Curriculum such as Read More …