Category: Exploring the Stars

The sky was cloudy with occasional light rain as graduate student Tony Martinez began the digital slide presentation “The Life and Times of Stars” before 5 student visitors from Huron University College on Tuesday, October 14th, 2014, 6:37 p.m.

Clear skies becoming partly cloudy later greeted 27 visitors (17 children and 10 adults) from Jean Vanier Catholic School Grade-6 class for Exploring the Stars at the Cronyn Observatory, Thursday, October 9th, 2014, 7:00 p.m. Graduate student Parshati Patel made the digital slide presentation, “The Stuff of Stars” and followed this with the activity “Constellation”, Read More …

  Partly cloudy skies greeted some 50 visitors to the Centre for Planetary Science & Exploration (CPSX) event at the Cronyn Observatory, Wednesday, October 8th, 8:30 p.m. This was following the 10th Annual CPSX Distinguished Public Lecture “Finding Earth’s Twin: The Great Escape” by MIT Professor Dr. Sara Seager in Western’s Paul Davenport Theatre, Talbot Read More …

Partly cloudy skies greeted 47 visitors (25 children and 22 adults) from the University Lab School for Exploring the Stars at the Cronyn Observatory, Thursday, April 24th, 2014, 6:30 p.m. Graduate student Tony Martinez made his digital slide presentation Constellations and then fielded questions. He followed this with the activity Crater Experiment, dropping rocks and Read More …

Clear skies greeted 23 visitors (12 children and 11 adults) from the Montessori School for Exploring the Stars at the Cronyn Observatory, Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014, 6:30 p.m. Graduate student Tony Martinez made his digital slide presentation Our Solar System—an updated version including material from the presentation The Small Bodies in Our Solar System—and then Read More …