Category: Cronyn Observatory

Clear skies greeted visitors to the Cronyn Observatory Open House, Saturday, September 14th, 2013, on Western University’s campus. Graduate student Parshati Patel began her digital slide presentation “Smaller Bits of the Solar System” around 8:00 p.m. Graduate student Dilini Subasinghe directed the 25.4cm refractor in the dome towards the Moon, with the 32mm Erfle eyepiece Read More …

Clear skies with some hazy clouds greeted visitors to the Cronyn Observatory Open House, Saturday, August 31st, 2013, on Western University’s campus. Dr. Sarah Gallagher made 2 presentations of her digital slide presentation “Gasbags & Blowhards: Black Holes in the Universe” and got half-way through a third presentation before the Observatory closed down at 11:00 Read More …

Clear skies greeted visitors to the Cronyn Observatory Open House, Saturday, August 24th, 2013, on Western University’s campus. Graduate student Neven Vulic began the first of 2 presentations of his digital slide show “Supernova Explosions—Are They Cool or What?” around 8:30 p.m. He presented it again at 9:30 p.m. Postdoctoral fellow Elisabetta Micelotta was crowd Read More …

Clear skies greeted visitors to the Cronyn Observatory Open House, Saturday, August 17th, 2013, on Western University’s campus. Physics and Astronomy Department Chair Dr. Shantanu Basu began the first of 3 presentations of his digital slide show on the “Formation of the Solar System” at 8:30 p.m. He also mentioned the newly discovered Nova in Read More …

Clear skies greeted visitors to the Cronyn Observatory Open House, Saturday, August 10th, 2013, and Dr. Paul Wiegert began the first of 2 presentations of his digital slide show “The Perseid Meteor Shower” at 8:30 p.m. He followed this with a short slide presentation, “The Russian Meteor of February” concerning the brilliant meteor that exploded Read More …