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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 …
Partly cloudy skies greeted 47 visitors (25 children and 22 adults) from the University Lab School for Exploring the Stars at the Cronyn Observatory, Thursday, April 24th, 2014, 6:30 p.m. Graduate student Tony Martinez made his digital slide presentation Constellations and then fielded questions. He followed this with the activity Crater Experiment, dropping rocks and Read More …
Clear skies greeted 23 visitors (12 children and 11 adults) from the Montessori School for Exploring the Stars at the Cronyn Observatory, Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014, 6:30 p.m. Graduate student Tony Martinez made his digital slide presentation Our Solar System—an updated version including material from the presentation The Small Bodies in Our Solar System—and then Read More …