Category: Cronyn Observatory

Partly cloudy skies greeted an estimated 28 visitors to the Cronyn Observatory Public Night, Saturday, February 8th, 2014, 7:00 p.m. There were just 14 people (including one small child) when graduate student Parshati Patel began the digital slide presentation “The Life and Times of Stars” around 7:05 p.m. There was a brief intermission around 7:20 Read More …

Cloudy skies and light wet snow flurries greeted visitors to the Cronyn Observatory Public Night, Saturday, January 11th, 2014, 7:00 p.m. There were 22 people in the audience by the time graduate student Tony Martinez finished the first of 2 presentations of the digital slide show “Life in the Universe.” There were 4 other visitors Read More …

Cloudy skies with occasional snow flurries greeted visitors to the Cronyn Observatory Public Night, Saturday, December 14th, 2013, 7:00 p.m. Graduate student Dilini Subasinghe began her digital slide presentation, “Smaller Bits of the Solar System,” before 6 visitors, including one small child. More people arrived, increasing the total to 10 visitors by the end of Read More …

Cloudy skies with occasional light rain greeted visitors to the Cronyn Observatory Public Night, Saturday, November 9th, 2013, 7:00 p.m. Graduate student Shannon Hicks began her digital slide presentation, “Solar Weather,” before some 26 people, which increased to an estimated 45 visitors by the end of the evening. RASC London Centre member Richard Gibbens was Read More …

Since 2011 RASC London Centre members have been assisting with the first year student Astronomy 1021 Cronyn Observatory Telescope Projects. This year, RASC London Centre members set up the London Centre’s 25.4cm Dobsonian and the Cronyn Observatory’s Meade 8-inch (20.3cm) Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes on the Observatory’s balcony to supplement the 25.4cm refractor in the dome. The Read More …