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Cloudy skies with some light rain greeted 37 visitors (32 children, 1 staff member and 4 helpers) from the Boys & Girls Club of London for Solar Observing at Western University’s Cronyn Observatory, Thursday, August 16th, 2018, scheduled 1:30—3:30 p.m. They arrived at 2:00 p.m. and graduate student Viraja Khatu presented the digital slide presentation Read More …
Partly cloudy skies greeted 43 visitors (19 children and 24 adults) from the Girl Guides Camp, Special Event, at Western University’s Cronyn Observatory, Wednesday, August 15th, 2018, scheduled 8:30—10:30 p.m. The Guides, with their parents and leader, arrived early at 8:00 p.m. Graduate student Viraja Khatu had set up a table in the lecture room Read More …
Partly cloudy skies greeted some 192 visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Summer Public Night, Saturday, August 11th, 2018, 8:30 p.m. Professor Martin Houde made 2 presentations of his digital slide presentation “Submillimetre Astronomy,” first at 8:30 p.m. and the second time at 9:45 p.m. Undergraduate summer research student from Simon Fraser University, Dave Miller, Read More …
We would like to thank all those that came out to help with and view the Eclipse on Monday 21 August, 2017. It was a very successful event and could not have happened with out the help and enthusiasm of everyone involved. Stay tuned for the Total Solar Eclipse of 2024 details to come.
The partial eclipse begins on the right side of the Sun’s disk just after lunch, at 13:07. Soon after this you will notice the black bite out of the Sun. Maximum eclipse occurs at 14:30, when 75% of the Sun will be blocked by the Moon’s disk. The Sun will be back to normal by Read More …