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Cloudy skies greeted 14 visitors, including 8 children and 6 adults (not including an infant and a small child), from the 2nd Strathroy Girl Guides for Exploring the Stars at Western University’s Cronyn Observatory, Wednesday, March 30th, 2016, 6:30 p.m. Graduate student Laura Lenkic presented the digital slide presentation “Girl Guide Astronomy Badge” (title slide Read More …
Mostly clear skies greeted an estimated 120 visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Public Night, Tuesday, March 29th, 2016, 7:00 p.m. This included 34 visitors from the 1st Strathroy Scouts (25 Scouts and 9 adults / leaders) who showed up early in the evening. The visitors were welcomed by graduate student Dilini Subasinghe and, since Read More …
Partly cloudy, later mostly clear skies, greeted 4 adult visitors of a private group for Exploring the Stars at Western University’s Cronyn Observatory, Monday, March 28th, 2016, 7:00 p.m. Graduate student Shannon Hicks presented the digital slide presentation “Constellations” and fielded questions. Shannon followed this with the activity “Kitchen Comet”, making a comet from dry Read More …
Cloudy skies and rain greeted 38 visitors (17 children and 21 adults) from the 1st St. Thomas Brownies for Exploring the Stars at Western University’s Cronyn Observatory, Thursday, March 24th, 2016, 6:30 p.m. Graduate student Dilini Subasinghe made the digital slide presentation “Cub Scout Astronomy Badge” and fielded questions. Dilini followed this with the activity Read More …
Cloudy skies with occasional rain greeted 16 visitors from Best Buddies at King’s College for Exploring the Stars at Western University’s Cronyn Observatory, Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016, 6:00 p.m. Graduate student Shannon Hicks presented the digital slide presentation “Constellations” and followed this with the “Constellations Activity”, distributing 16 “Star Finder” planispheres. She then showed the Read More …