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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 …
Partly cloudy skies greeted 47 visitors (25 children and 22 adults) from the University Lab School for Exploring the Stars at the Cronyn Observatory, Thursday, April 24th, 2014, 6:30 p.m. Graduate student Tony Martinez made his digital slide presentation Constellations and then fielded questions. He followed this with the activity Crater Experiment, dropping rocks and Read More …
Clear skies greeted 23 visitors (12 children and 11 adults) from the Montessori School for Exploring the Stars at the Cronyn Observatory, Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014, 6:30 p.m. Graduate student Tony Martinez made his digital slide presentation Our Solar System—an updated version including material from the presentation The Small Bodies in Our Solar System—and then Read More …
Cloudy skies with rain showers greeted some 50 visitors (adults and children) for the Cronyn Observatory Public Night, Saturday, April 12th, 2014, 8:00 p.m. Graduate students Dilini Subasinghe and Tony Martinez hosted the event. RASC London Centre was represented by Peter Jedicke and Bob Duff, later joined in the dome by Everett Clark. Dilini made Read More …
Cloudy skies with occasional rain greeted 6 visitors (3 children and 3 adults) from a private group for Exploring the Stars at the Cronyn Observatory, Thursday, April 10th, 2014, 6:30 p.m. They immediately went upstairs into the dome where RASC London Centre member Everett Clark showed them the communications tower in south London through the Read More …