Category: Cronyn Observatory

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, Friday, June 30, 2017. Asteroid Day is held each year on the anniversary of the 1908 Tunguska impact Read More …

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 …