Category: Cronyn Observatory

Clear skies greeted visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Summer Public Night, Saturday, August 9th, 2014, 8:30 p.m. Graduate student Laura Lenkic made 3 presentations of her digital slide presentation “The Perseid Meteor Shower; Plus: The Russian Meteor of February 2013”.  Undergraduate student Nathalie Thibert was crowd manager and counted visitors, there being 60 people Read More …

Mostly cloudy skies with some later clearing greeted visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Summer Public Night, Saturday, August 2nd, 2014, 8:30 p.m. Graduate student Neil Bhatt made his digital slide presentation “Resonance: Solar System Harmony” and fielded questions. Undergraduate student Nathalie Thibert was crowd manager and counted visitors, there being some 37 people by Read More …

Partly cloudy skies with hazy clouds greeted 25 visitors, including 18 youth and 7 counsellors, from the Indigenous Services Mini-University Camp at Western University to the Cronyn Observatory, Friday, August 1st, 2014: 8:30 p.m. Graduate student Shannon Hicks began with a short digital slide presentation “Solar Activity & Solar Weather” followed by the digital slide Read More …

Partly cloudy skies greeted visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Summer Public Night, Saturday, July 26th, 2014, 8:30 p.m. Since there was no slide projector immediately available graduate student Abedin Abedin gave his first talk “Comets” without slides. He later made his second presentation of “Comets” with slides after the basement storeroom was finally unlocked Read More …

Cloudy skies with some later clearing greeted visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Summer Public Night, Saturday, July 19th, 2014, 8:30 p.m. Graduate student Neil Bhatt made his digital slide presentation “The Sun” and fielded questions. Graduate student Nina Ivkovich was crowd manager and counted 14 visitors by 9:00 p.m. after 3 people had left. Read More …