Category: Outreach & Education

Mostly clear skies greeted visitors to the Cronyn Observatory Summer Public Night, Saturday, May 24th, 2014, 8:30 p.m. Faculty member Dr. Sarah Gallagher made 2 presentations of her digital slide presentation Gasbags and Blowhards Supermassive Black Holes in the Universe before an audience numbering 28 people by 8:40 p.m. Graduate student Richard Cyr was crowd Read More …

Partly cloudy skies greeted visitors to the Cronyn Observatory Summer Public Night, Saturday, May 17th, 2014, 8:30 p.m. Professor Els Peeters made her digital slide presentation Carbon and Our Cosmic Roots. There were 28 people in the lecture room by 8:45 p.m. and a total of 45 visitors by the end of the evening during Read More …

Some hazy clouds with later clear skies greeted visitors to the Cronyn Observatory Summer Public Night, Saturday, May 10th, 2014, 8:30 p.m. Professor Martin Houde made his digital slide presentation Submillimetre Astronomy twice, first at 8:30 p.m. and again at 10:00 p.m. Graduate student Abedin Abedin was crowd manager. There were about 12—15 people in Read More …

Partly cloudy skies greeted visitors for the first Cronyn Observatory Summer Public Night, Saturday, May 3rd, 2014, 8:30 p.m. Faculty member Dr. Pauline Barmby began her digital slide presentation The Eta Aquarids: Shooting Stars from Halley’s Comet before an audience of 9 people (not including 2 who came and went). There were 12 people later Read More …