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Cloudy skies greeted 10 visitors, including 6 children (ages 6—10) and 4 adults, from the group Little Astronomers for Exploring the Stars at Western University’s Cronyn Observatory, Thursday, October 15th, 2015, 6:00 p.m. Graduate student Tony Martinez made the digital slide presentation “Our Solar System” and fielded questions. He followed this with the activity “Crater Read More …
Clear skies greeted 6 visitors from Western University Science Students’ Council for Exploring the Stars at Western University’s Cronyn Observatory, Wednesday, October 14th, 2015, 6:30 p.m. Graduate student Tony Martinez made the digital slide presentation “Extra Solar Planets” and followed this with the “Constellations” activity, distributing 6 “Star Finder” planispheres and showing the visitors how Read More …
Cloudy skies greeted 11 girls and 2 leaders from the 60th London Girl Guides for Exploring the Stars at Western University’s Cronyn Observatory, Tuesday, October 13th, 2015, 6:30 p.m. They were joined by a parent around 7:40 p.m., bringing the total 14 visitors (11 children and 3 adults). Graduate student Dilini Subasinghe made the digital 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 …
Partly cloudy hazy skies greeted visitors to the Cronyn Observatory for solar observing in the afternoon and evening stargazing, Saturday, September 26th, 2015, 3:00—11:00 p.m. This was in celebrations of Western University’s Homecoming weekend, September 25th—27th, 2015.