Author: Robert Duff

Partly cloudy skies with hazy clouds greeted 14 visitors (including one young boy) from the Ontario Association of Physics Teachers (OAPT) Physics Camp for evening observing at Western University’s Cronyn Observatory, Thursday, July 7th, 2016, 9:00—11:00 p.m. They were welcomed by Professor Stan Metchev and Physics and Astronomy Department staff member Henry Leparskas was also Read More …

Partly cloudy skies greeted 20 visitors (17 teachers and 3 event organizers) from the Ontario Association of Physics Teachers (OAPT) Physics Camp for solar observing at Western University’s Cronyn Observatory, Wednesday, July 6th, 2016, 12:30—2:00 p.m. They were welcomed by Professors Sarah Gallagher and Pauline Barmby along with postdocs Parshati Patel and Aycha Tammour. Physics Read More …

Partly cloudy skies with hazy clouds, later clearing, greeted visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Summer Public Night, Saturday, July 2nd, 2016, 8:30 p.m. Graduate student Laura Lenkic made 2 presentations of the digital slide presentation “Small Bodies in the Solar System.” There were some 160 visitors by the end of the evening, and if Read More …

Western University’s Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration (CPSX) in collaboration with the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Department of Earth Sciences hosted a special event at the Hume Cronyn Memorial Observatory on Asteroid Day, Thursday, June 30, 2016. Asteroid Day is held each year on the anniversary of the 1908 Tunguska impact Read More …

Partly cloudy skies with some hazy clouds, later clearing, greeted some 130 or more visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Summer Public Night, Saturday, June 25th, 2016, 8:30 p.m. Professor Pauline Barmby made 3 presentations of her digital slide presentation “Space is Hard!” —which concerned the challenges of space exploration and failed missions. There were Read More …