Cloudy skies with wet snow flurries greeted 39 visitors (22 children and 17 adults) from the 1st Kintore/Thamesford Cub Pack for Exploring the Stars at the Cronyn Observatory, Wednesday, March 27th, 2013, 7:00 p.m. Graduate student Parshati Patel made the digital slide presentation, “Cubs and Scouts Astronomy Badge,” and followed this with the activity “Crater Read More …

Mostly clear skies greeted 18 visitors (14 children and 4 adults) from the 120th London Brownies for Exploring the Stars at the Cronyn Observatory, Tuesday, March 26th, 2013, 7:00 p.m. Graduate student Parshati Patel made the digital slide presentation, “Brownies Exploring Space,” and followed this with the activity “Crater Experiment” in which flour and cocoa Read More …

Mostly clear skies greeted 26 visitors (16 children and 10 adults) from the KLC Homeschool Group for Exploring the Stars at the Cronyn Observatory, Wednesday, March 20th, 2013, 6:30 p.m. Graduate student Allison Hill made the digital slide presentation, “Our Messy Solar System.” She followed this with the activity, “Kitchen Comet,” making a comet from Read More …

Cloudy skies and snow flurries, later partially clearing, greeted 18 visitors (15 children and 3 adults) from the 93rd London Brownies to the Cronyn Observatory for Exploring the Stars, Tuesday, March 19th, 2013, 6:30 p.m. Graduate student Parshati Patel made the digital slide presentation, “Brownies Exploring Space,” and followed this with the activity “Crater Experiment” Read More …

Graduate student Tyler Desjardins began his slide presentation, “The X-Ray Universe,” before 3 members of the Space Society of London (SS0L) at the Cronyn Observatory for Exploring the Stars, Thursday, March 14th, 2013, 7:00 p.m. They were joined later in the evening by another member for a total of 4 visitors for the evening after Read More …