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Overcast skies and misty rain greeted 34 visitors, including 25 children and 9 adults, from St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Secondary School grade-9 class to the Cronyn Observatory for Exploring the Stars, Wednesday, October 23rd, 7:00 p.m. Graduate student Tyler Desjardins made two digital slide presentations, the first one being “Mars” and the second one, “Seeing Read More …
A partly cloudy sky greeted 22 visitors, including 10 children and 12 adults, from the 26th Scouting Group to the Cronyn Observatory for Exploring the Stars, Thursday, October 18th, 7:00 p.m. Bringing the group immediately upstairs into the dome, graduate students Emily McCullough and Allison Hill showed them the crescent Moon through the big 25.4cm Read More …
A clear sky with some hazy clouds greeted 13 visitors from the Space Society of London to the Cronyn Observatory for Exploring the Stars on Wednesday, October 17th, 7:00 p.m. Graduate student Tyler Desjardins made the digital slide presentation, “Mars,” and this was followed by observing.
Clouds and rain greeted 10 visitors to the Cronyn Observatory Open House, Saturday, October 13th, 7:00 p.m. Graduate student Ted Rudyk gave his slide presentation, “Top 10 Reasons Why Jupiter is an Interesting Planet.” They then went upstairs where graduate student Neil Bhatt was in charge of the big 25.4cm refractor in the dome, which Read More …
Mostly cloudy skies greeted the 54th London Beavers & Cubs Group to the Cronyn Observatory on Wednesday, October 10th, 6:45 p.m. Graduate student Tyler Desjardins made the digital slide presentation, The Scout / Guide Astronomy Badge, and this was followed by a tour of the big 25.4cm refractor in the dome.