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Center activities to promote astronomy education.
Hazy, partly cloudy skies greeted 4 RASC London Centre members to the Springwater Conservation Area Campground near Aylmer, Ontario, Saturday, June 7th, 2014. Dave McCarter brought his 25.4cm Dobsonian; Gaetan Godin, his 20.3cm Home Built Dobsonian; Harold Tutt, his 80mm Stellarvue Night Hawk refractor; and Everett Clark, his 11.4cm Tasco Newtonian on a Super Polaris Read More …
Hazy, partly cloudy skies greeted visitors to the Cronyn Observatory Summer Public Night, Saturday, June 7th, 2014, 8:30 p.m. Graduate student Neven Vulic made his digital slide presentation Supernova Explosions: Are They Cool or What?! There were 24 visitors present around 8:57 p.m., including one child upstairs in the dome. There may have been around Read More …
RASC London Centre Public Outreach Coordinator and Past President, Dave McCarter made his digital slide presentation The Universe is Awesome! before 21 visitors in the shelter on the east side of the campgrounds at Pittock Conservation Area beside Pittock Reservoir, Saturday, May 31st, 2014. He distributed 21 Star Finder planispheres & several Moon Gazers’Guide cards Read More …
Mostly clear skies greeted visitors to the Cronyn Observatory Summer Public Night, Saturday, May 31st, 2014, 8:30 p.m. Visiting professor Dr. Duncan Steel made his digital slide presentation We’re All Going to Die! A Light-hearted View of Asteroid & Comet Impacts with some 27 people having arrived by 8:45 p.m., including several who went upstairs Read More …
Partly cloudy skies greeted 47 visitors from the home school group Kids Learning Connection of London to the RASC London Centre’s Fingal Wildlife Management Area Dark Sky Observing Site, Monday, May 5th, 2014. RASC London Centre Public Outreach Coordinator and Past President Dave McCarter began the event around 7:00 p.m. with an orientation talk. This Read More …