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Partly cloudy skies greeted 47 visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Summer Public Night, Saturday, June 24th, 2017, 8:30 p.m. Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Andrew Pon made 2 presentations of his digital slide presentation “The Most Spectacular Images from Astronomy, and the Science behind Them” and fielded questions. Undergraduate student Roy Zang was “crowd manager” and Read More …
Mostly cloudy, later partly clearing skies greeted 26 visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Summer Public Night, Saturday, June 17th, 2017, 8:30 p.m. Undergraduate student Meet Panchal made his digital slide presentation on “Charles Messier’s Catalog of the Heavens” and fielded questions. Due to technical difficulties, the laptop computer from the “Transit Demo” in the Read More …
Partly cloudy skies greeted some 100 visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Summer Public Night, Saturday, June 10th, 2017, 8:30 p.m. Professor Martin Houde made 3 presentations of his digital slide presentation “Submillimetre Astronomy” and fielded questions. Undergraduate students Angus Keith was “crowd manager.” There were 48 visitors at the first slide presentation, 28 at Read More …
Partly cloudy skies greeted 142 visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Summer Public Night, Saturday, June 3rd, 2017, 8:30 p.m. Professor Stan Metchev made 3 presentations of his digital slide presentation “Towards Finding Other Earths” and fielded questions. He preceded these presentations with a spectacular NASA video featuring the latest pictures from the Juno spacecraft Read More …
Partly cloudy skies greeted some 48, possibly 62 visitors, to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory, Friday, June 2nd, 2017, 8:00—10:00 p.m. The occasion was the 2017 Synchro Canada Espoir Synchronized Swimming Championships, being held May 30th—June 4th, 2017, with 250 young athletes (ages 11—15) participating at the Western Sports & Recreation Center.