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Clear skies greeted some 206 visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Summer Public Night, Saturday, August 12th, 2017, 8:30 p.m. Professor Jan Cami made 2 presentations of his digital slide presentation “The Solar Eclipse of August 21, 2017” and fielded questions. Graduate student Sivayini Kandeepan was “crowd manager” and counted 130 visitors by 9:20 p.m. Read More …
The partial eclipse begins on the right side of the Sun’s disk just after lunch, at 13:07. Soon after this you will notice the black bite out of the Sun. Maximum eclipse occurs at 14:30, when 75% of the Sun will be blocked by the Moon’s disk. The Sun will be back to normal by Read More …
A mostly clear sky greeted some 47 (40 students and 7 staff members) from the Ivey Summer Leadership Program, for a special event at Western University’s Cronyn Observatory, Monday August 7th, 2017, 8:30 p.m. The Ivey Summer Leadership Program is put on by the Ivey Business School at Western University and is an enrichment program Read More …
Clear skies greeted some 100 visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Summer Public Night, Saturday, August 5th, 2017, 8:30 p.m. Professor Sarah Gallagher made 2 presentations of her digital slide presentation “Tight Families: Compact Galaxy Groups” and fielded questions. Graduate student Pranav Manangath was the “crowd manager” for the evening.
A cloudy, later partly clearing hazy sky greeted 38 visitors (students and staff members) from the Summer Academic Writing Clinic for incoming first-year students, for evening observing at Western University’s Cronyn Observatory, Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017, 8:30 p.m. Professor Robert Cockcroft made the digital slide presentation “Celestial Bear: The Six Nations’ Night Sky” and fielded Read More …