Category: Cronyn Observatory

Clear hazy skies greeted some 104 visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Public Night, Saturday, July 4th, 2015, 8:30 p.m. Graduate student Emily McCullough made her digital slide presentation “Pluto”, featuring the latest pictures and data from the New Horizons spacecraft, due to make its flyby of Pluto on July 14th. There were some 80 Read More …

Cloudy skies and rain greeted 14 visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Public Night, Saturday, June 27th, 2015, 8:30 p.m. Professor Margaret Campbell-Brown made her digital slide presentation “When World’s Collide: Comets, Asteroids and the Earth”.

Partly cloudy skies greeted some 50 visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Public Night, Saturday, June 20th, 2015, 8:30 p.m. Graduate student Sahar Rahmani made the first of 2 presentations of her digital slide presentation “The Life Cycle of the Stars”, before an audience of some 18 people. With more people arriving she made her Read More …

Partly cloudy skies greeted some 40 visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Public Night, Saturday, June 13th, 2015, 8:30 p.m. Graduate student Neil Bhatt made 2 presentations of his digital slide presentation “Decoding Starlight”, which was about spectroscopy, to about 10 people in total.

Mostly clear skies with a few hazy clouds greeted some 110 visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Public Night, Saturday, June 6th, 2015, 8:30 p.m. Graduate student Neven Vulic made his digital slide presentation “X-Ray Astronomy: No Lead Required” twice during course of the evening. Peter Jedicke counted 95 people before Neven’s second slide talk Read More …