Author: Robert Duff

Graduate student Shannon Hicks began her digital slide presentation “Alien Life in the Universe” with 6 students from Huron University College Residences, Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013, 7:00 p.m. Another student arrived during the presentation bringing the number to 7 and finally one more joined the group in the dome towards the end of the evening Read More …

Partly cloudy skies greeted 32 visitors (19 children and 13 adults) from the University Heights Public School Grade-5 / 6 class to the Cronyn Observatory for an evening of Exploring the Stars, Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013, 7:00 p.m. Graduate student Dilini Subasinghe made the digital slide presentation, “The Big Bang,” and this was followed by Read More …

Graduate students Tony Martinez and Shannon Hicks greeted 30 visitors, including 21 children and 9 adults, from the St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Secondary School Grade-9 class on Thursday, October 17th, 2013, 7:00 p.m. Tony made 2 digital slide presentations beginning with “The Stuff of Stars” and followed by “Galaxies.” The students asked informed and thoughtful Read More …

Cloudy skies greeted 20 visitors (15 children and 5 adults) to the Cronyn Observatory for Exploring the Stars, Tuesday, October 15th, 2013, 6:30 p.m. Graduate student Parshati Patel made the digital slide presentation “Constellations.” This was followed by an activity in which she distributed 15 “Star Finder” planispheres and showed the children how to assemble Read More …