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Western University and Cronyn Observatory On Tuesday, June 5th, the planet Venus transited across the Sun, beginning at 6:03 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. The transit continued through sunset at 8:50 p.m. and ended 6 ½ hours after it began. Graduate students and other people from Western’s Physics and Astronomy Department, coordinated by Professor Jan Cami, Read More …
Clear skies greeted visitors to the Cronyn Observatory Open House, Saturday, June 9th, 8:30 p.m. Dr. Sarah Gallagher made her digital slide presentation, “The Early Days of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory,” twice; the first group included 18 visitors and the second, just 6 people. In all there were an estimated 30—40 visitors at the slide Read More …
Clouds and rain greeted visitors to the Cronyn Observatory for the Saturday evening Open House, June 2nd, 8:30 p.m. Professor Jan Cami made his digital slide presentation, “Transit of Venus, June 5, 2012,” before 11 visitors. Besides the visitors, Henry Leparskas from Western’s Physics and Astronomy Department was there along with RASC London Centre members Read More …
Bill Gardner reported spending the weekend at Killarney Provincial Park and opening the Observatory, Saturday evening, May 19th. He had a small group of 7 camp visitors join him for a small night time sky tour. He showed the group the planets Venus, Mars and Saturn, along with the deep-sky classics M13 and M57. One Read More …
Thursday morning, May 24th, Dave McCarter attended Joan Roffey’s kindergarten class at Blessed Kateri Separate School on Sunnyside Drive near Masonville in London. He set up his 80mm Stellarvue refractor with a Baader film solar filter for the children to view the Sun and sunspots. This was followed by a question and answer session indoors.