Category: Exploring the Stars

Clear skies greeted 30 visitors (15 children and 15 adults) from the Montessori Academy of London (Oxford Street) for Exploring the Stars at the Cronyn Observatory, Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014, 6:30 p.m. Graduate student Shannon Hicks made her digital slide presentation The Basics, presenting the basics of astronomy, and answered questions. She then introduced the Read More …

Partly cloudy skies and windy weather greeted 15 visitors (including 2 children) from the Best Buddies, Fanshawe College Chapter, for Exploring the Stars at the Cronyn Observatory, Tuesday, April 1st, 7:00 p.m. They included staff and family members from Hutton House, with which Best Buddies is associated. Graduate student Tony Martinez made the digital slide Read More …

Clear skies greeted 32 visitors (21 children and 11 adults) from the 110th Spark’s Unit for Exploring the Stars at the Cronyn Observatory, Monday, March 31st, 2014, 6:30 p.m. Graduate student Dilini Subasinghe made the digital slide presentation Constellations. Dilini immediately followed this with the activity Constellations, distributing 22 Star Finder planispheres and assisted everybody Read More …

Cloudy skies with some rain greeted 22 visitors (13 children and 9 adults) from the London 4th Cub Group for Exploring the Stars at the Cronyn Observatory, Thursday, March 27th, 2014, 7:00 p.m. Graduate student Dilini Subasinghe made the digital slide presentation The Cub Scout Astronomy Badge and answered a lot of very good questions. Read More …

Mostly clear skies greeted 40 visitors from Western Law – Student Legal Society for Exploring the Stars at the Cronyn Observatory, Wednesday, March 26th, 2014, 7:00 p.m. Graduate student Parshati Patel made the digital slide presentation Life in the Universe and fielded questions. She immediately followed this with the activity Kitchen Comet making a comet Read More …