Author: Robert Duff

Mostly clear skies greeted 40 visitors from Western Law – Student Legal Society for Exploring the Stars at the Cronyn Observatory, Wednesday, March 26th, 2014, 7:00 p.m. Graduate student Parshati Patel made the digital slide presentation Life in the Universe and fielded questions. She immediately followed this with the activity Kitchen Comet making a comet Read More …

Partly cloudy skies with hazy clouds greeted 31 visitors (28 students and 3 adults) from the St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Secondary School Grade-9 class for Exploring the Stars at the Cronyn Observatory, Tuesday, March 25th, 2014, 6:30 p.m. Graduate student Tony Martinez made the digital slide presentation The Big Bang and then proceeded with his Read More …

Cloudy skies with snow flurries greeted 23 visitors (18 children and 5 adults) from the 82nd London Guides for Exploring the Stars, at the Cronyn Observatory, Monday, March 24th, 2014, 6:30 p.m. Graduate student Shannon Hicks made the digital slide presentation The Scout / Guide Astronomy Badge and, after fielding some questions, brought everybody upstairs Read More …

Cloudy skies greeted 37 visitors (27 children and 10 adults) from the Arthur Stringer Public School Grade-6/7 class for Exploring the Stars at the Cronyn Observatory, Thursday, March 20th, 2014, 6:45 p.m. Graduate student Dilini Subasinghe made her digital slide presentation Mars and answered questions. Dilini immediately followed this with the activity Constellations, distributing some 26 Read More …

Cloudy skies with some light rain greeted 25 visitors (16 children and 9 adults) from the 68th B London Beaver Colony for Exploring the Stars at the Cronyn Observatory, Wednesday, March 19th, 2014, 6:30 p.m. Graduate student Shannon Hicks made the digital slide presentation “The Cub Scout Astronomy Badge” and answered questions.