Category: Cronyn Observatory

Mostly clear skies with hazy clouds later in the evening greeted visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Summer Public Night, Saturday, June 21st, 2014, 8:30 p.m. Graduate student Sahar Rahmani made 2 presentations of her digital slide presentation “The Summer Solstice” before an audience numbering 25 people by 8:43 p.m. Postdoctoral fellow Sophia Lianou was Read More …

Clear skies greeted some 60 visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Summer Public Night, Saturday, June 14th, 2014, 8:30 p.m. Physics and Astronomy Department Chair Dr. Shantanu Basu made his digital slide presentation “Galaxies” twice during the evening. Visiting professor Dr. Duncan Steel was also there. Graduate student Jeff Vankerkhove was telescope operator and postdoctoral Read More …

Hazy, partly cloudy skies greeted visitors to the Cronyn Observatory Summer Public Night, Saturday, June 7th, 2014, 8:30 p.m. Graduate student Neven Vulic made his digital slide presentation Supernova Explosions: Are They Cool or What?! There were 24 visitors present around 8:57 p.m., including one child upstairs in the dome. There may have been around Read More …

Mostly clear skies greeted visitors to the Cronyn Observatory Summer Public Night, Saturday, May 31st, 2014, 8:30 p.m. Visiting professor Dr. Duncan Steel made his digital slide presentation We’re All Going to Die! A Light-hearted View of Asteroid & Comet Impacts with some 27 people having arrived by 8:45 p.m., including several who went upstairs Read More …

Mostly clear skies greeted visitors to the Cronyn Observatory Summer Public Night, Saturday, May 24th, 2014, 8:30 p.m. Faculty member Dr. Sarah Gallagher made 2 presentations of her digital slide presentation Gasbags and Blowhards Supermassive Black Holes in the Universe before an audience numbering 28 people by 8:40 p.m. Graduate student Richard Cyr was crowd Read More …