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Clear skies greeted visitors to the Cronyn Observatory Open House, Saturday, August 10th, 2013, and Dr. Paul Wiegert began the first of 2 presentations of his digital slide show “The Perseid Meteor Shower” at 8:30 p.m. He followed this with a short slide presentation, “The Russian Meteor of February” concerning the brilliant meteor that exploded Read More …
London Centre members Dave McCarter, Harold Tutt, Everett Clark and Dianne and Peter Jedicke travelled to Grand Bend for the Huron Woods star night, Tuesday, August 6th, 2013. As reported by Peter Jedicke, it was a “rain or shine” event. Following a hearty barbeque dinner at the cottage home of one of the hosts, they Read More …
Partly cloudy skies greeted visitors to the Cronyn Observatory Open House, Saturday, August 3rd, 2013, 8:30 p.m. Graduate student Ethan Luo made 2 presentations of his digital slide show, “How Crazily Can Stars Rotate?” during the course of the evening. Graduate student Dimuthu Hemachandra supervised and counted visitors, totalling 80 people by the end of Read More …
Clouds and rain greeted arrivals at the Cronyn Observatory for the Open House, Saturday, July 27th, 8:30 p.m. Graduate student Luis Victorero began his digital slide presentation, “Exploring the Universe, Life Beyond Our Planet,” around 9:12 p.m., before 3 visitors including 2 students from Western University’s Faculty of Information & Media Studies Master’s Journalism Program Read More …
Mostly cloudy skies greeted visitors to the Cronyn Observatory Open House, Saturday, July 20th, 2013, 8:30 p.m. Graduate student Sahar Rahmani made 3 presentations of her digital slide show “How and Where are Stars Born? (Star Formation)” during the course of the evening. Physics and Astronomy Department computer resource person Henry Leparskas was there with Read More …