Clear skies greeted 44 visitors (22 children and 22 adults) from the London District Catholic School Board Gifted Grade-8 students for Exploring the Stars at the Cronyn Observatory, Wednesday, April 9th, 2014, 7:00 p.m. Graduate student Tony Martinez made his digital slide presentation Our Solar System — an updated version including material from the presentation The Read More …

Clear skies with a few clouds greeted 16 visitors (10 students and 6 adults) from the Blyth Academy (Grade-9) for Exploring the Stars at the Cronyn Observatory, Tuesday, April 8th, 7:00 p.m. Graduate student Shannon Hicks made the digital slide presentation Life in the Universe and fielded questions. She followed this with the activity Crater Read More …

Cloudy skies and rain greeted 32 visitors (14 students and 18 adults) from the London District Catholic School Board Gifted Grade-7 students for Exploring the Stars at the Cronyn Observatory, Monday, April 7th, 2014, 7:00 p.m. Graduate student Shannon Hicks made the digital slide presentation The Small Bodies in Our Solar System and fielded questions. Read More …

Cloudy skies greeted 28 visitors (26 students and 2 adults) from the Catholic Central High School Grade-9 class for Exploring the Stars at the Cronyn Observatory, Thursday, April 3rd, 2014, 6:30 p.m. Graduate student Dilini Subasinghe made the digital slide presentation, Our Solar System with a few additional slides about Earth’s Moon. After fielding some Read More …

Clear skies greeted 30 visitors (15 children and 15 adults) from the Montessori Academy of London (Oxford Street) for Exploring the Stars at the Cronyn Observatory, Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014, 6:30 p.m. Graduate student Shannon Hicks made her digital slide presentation The Basics, presenting the basics of astronomy, and answered questions. She then introduced the Read More …