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Partly cloudy skies greeted 47 visitors from the home school group Kids Learning Connection of London to the RASC London Centre’s Fingal Wildlife Management Area Dark Sky Observing Site, Monday, May 5th, 2014. RASC London Centre Public Outreach Coordinator and Past President Dave McCarter began the event around 7:00 p.m. with an orientation talk. This Read More …
Mostly clear skies greeted visitors to the Cronyn Observatory Summer Public Night, Saturday, May 24th, 2014, 8:30 p.m. Faculty member Dr. Sarah Gallagher made 2 presentations of her digital slide presentation Gasbags and Blowhards Supermassive Black Holes in the Universe before an audience numbering 28 people by 8:40 p.m. Graduate student Richard Cyr was crowd Read More …
Partly cloudy skies greeted visitors to the Cronyn Observatory Summer Public Night, Saturday, May 17th, 2014, 8:30 p.m. Professor Els Peeters made her digital slide presentation Carbon and Our Cosmic Roots. There were 28 people in the lecture room by 8:45 p.m. and a total of 45 visitors by the end of the evening during Read More …
Some hazy clouds with later clear skies greeted visitors to the Cronyn Observatory Summer Public Night, Saturday, May 10th, 2014, 8:30 p.m. Professor Martin Houde made his digital slide presentation Submillimetre Astronomy twice, first at 8:30 p.m. and again at 10:00 p.m. Graduate student Abedin Abedin was crowd manager. There were about 12—15 people in Read More …
Partly cloudy skies greeted visitors for the first Cronyn Observatory Summer Public Night, Saturday, May 3rd, 2014, 8:30 p.m. Faculty member Dr. Pauline Barmby began her digital slide presentation The Eta Aquarids: Shooting Stars from Halley’s Comet before an audience of 9 people (not including 2 who came and went). There were 12 people later Read More …