Your local chapter of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
I could see lots of thick dark cloud while driving up to Grand Bend, and the prospects of enjoying any observing were not looking good. When I arrived at the Community Centre I saw Lucas Piskunowicz with his wife and Everett Clark walking through an empty parking lot. Pretty soon some community members arrived and Read More …
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 …
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.
