Category: Cronyn Observatory

Partly cloudy skies greeted 34 visitors, including students and several staff members, from the Summer Academic Writing Clinic for incoming first-year students, for evening observing at Western University’s Cronyn Observatory, Thursday, August 9th, 2018, 8:30—10:30 p.m. Professor Jan Cami presented the digital slide presentation on “Astronomy and Space Research at Western” and fielded questions. The Read More …

Clear skies greeted 189 visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Summer Public Night, Saturday, August 4th, 2018, 8:30 p.m. Graduate student Ameek Sidhu made 2 presentations of her digital slide presentation “Spitzer Space Telescope – Observing the Universe in Infrared” and fielded questions. Professor Margaret Campbell-Brown did the “Transit Demonstration” and the “Spectroscopy Demonstration” downstairs Read More …

Cloudy skies greeted 143 visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Special Public Night for the Mars Opposition, Tuesday, July 31st, 2018, 8:30 p.m.—1:00 a.m. (August 1st). Although Mars reached opposition on Friday, July 27th, its closest approach to Earth was on Tuesday, July 31st, 2018. There were 2 digital slide presentations including (1) Professor Jan Read More …

Partly cloudy skies greeted 246 visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Summer Public Night, Saturday, July 28th, 2018, 8:30 p.m. Professor Sarah Gallagher made 2 presentations of her digital slide presentation“How to Ruin a Beautiful Machine: Radiation Damage in the Early Days of the Chandra X-ray Observatory,” first at 8:30 p.m. and the second time Read More …

Mostly clear skies greeted 22 visitors, including 18 students, 3 staff members and one volunteer, from the Summer Academic Writing Clinic for incoming first-year students, for evening observing at Western University’s Cronyn Observatory, Wednesday, July 18th, 2018, 8:30—10:30 p.m. Before the slide presentation, RASC London Centre member Henry Leparskas met the group outside the Cronyn Read More …