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 …