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Cloudy skies with later partial clearing greeted 18 visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Public Night, Saturday, August 8th, 2015, 8:30 p.m. Undergraduate student Ian Mulholland made 2 presentations of his digital slide presentation “Are We Alone?” RASC London Centre member Bob Duff counted 12 people in Ian’s first slide presentation and Ian counted 7 Read More …
Partly cloudy, later clearing skies greeted some 76 visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Public Night, Saturday, August 1st, 2015, 8:30 p.m. Undergraduate student Ian Mulholland made 2 presentations of his digital slide presentation “A Walk Through the Solar System”. RASC London Centre member Peter Jedicke counted 27 people in Ian’s first slide presentation and Read More …
Partly cloudy, later clearing skies greeted some 70 visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Public Night, Saturday, July 25th, 2015, 8:30 p.m. Beginning with 3 slides from the New Horizons spacecraft flyby mission of Pluto, Professor Jan Cami made 4 presentations of his digital slide presentation “Fingerprinting the Universe” and “Spectroscopy Demonstration” using 4 low Read More …
Mostly cloudy, hazy skies greeted some 70 visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Public Night, Saturday, July 18th, 2015, 8:30 p.m. Professor Sarah Gallagher made the first of her 2 digital slide presentations, “On Top of the Mountain All Covered with Ash: An Astronomer at the Telescope”, before an audience increasing to more than 50 Read More …
Partly cloudy, hazy skies greeted some 75 visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Public Night, Saturday, July 11th, 2015, 8:30 p.m. Graduate student Laura Lenkic made her digital slide presentation “Ground Based Telescopes (but really) a Look at Radio Astronomy” before an audience numbering 52 people by 9:00 p.m., and with more arrivals there were Read More …