Category: Cronyn Observatory

Mostly cloudy skies greeted some 33 visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Public Night, Monday, February 22nd, 2016, 7:00 p.m. They were welcomed by graduate student Dilini Subasinghe and, since there was no slide presentation, were directed upstairs into the dome.

Mostly cloudy skies and damp weather greeted some 24 visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Public Night, Monday, January 25th, 2016, 7:00 p.m. They were welcomed by graduate student Kendra Kellogg and, since there was no slide presentation that evening, were directed upstairs into the dome.

Cloudy skies and damp weather greeted 57 visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Public Night, Saturday, January 9th, 2016, 7:00 p.m. Graduate student Shannon Hicks presented her 45 minute digital slide presentation “Europa: The Next Frontier” before a standing-room only crowd and fielded questions. She made a shorter 20 minute version of her presentation again Read More …

Clear skies greeted some 75 visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Public Night, Saturday, November 28th, 2015, 7:00 p.m. Graduate student Dilini Subasinghe made 2 presentations of the digital slide presentation “Mercury and Venus” and fielded questions.

Partly cloudy skies greeted visitors to the second day of Western University’s Hume Cronyn Memorial Observatory 75th Anniversary celebration, Sunday, October 25th, 2015, 2:00—5:00 p.m. The agenda included another re-enactment of the 1940 opening ceremony, followed by tours of the Observatory by Professor Jan Cami. There was solar observing through filtered telescopes on the Observatory’s Read More …