Your local chapter of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
Center activities to promote astronomy education.
Cloudy skies with rain showers greeted some 30 visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Summer Public Night, Saturday, May 14th, 2016, 8:30 p.m. Professor Els Peeters made 2 presentations of her digital slide presentation “Carbon and Our Cosmic Roots,” with the second presentation to just 2 people.
Cloudy, later clearing, skies greeted 57 visitors (43 adults and 14 children) to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Summer Public Night, Saturday, May 7th, 2015, 8:30 p.m. Professor Jan Cami made 2 presentations of his digital slide presentation “The Transit of Mercury of May 9, 2016,” with the second presentation at 10:00—10:30 p.m. This was in Read More …
Clear skies greeted some 60 or more enthusiastic children and parents for the Star Night at Matthews Hall School in London, Thursday, April 14th, 2016, 8:00 p.m. The Star Night involved the whole school from JK to Grade-8 and outdoor lighting was turned off for better viewing through telescopes.
Cloudy with snow flurries and later clearing skies greeted visitors to Western University’s Cronyn Observatory Public Night, Saturday, April 9th, 2016, 8:00 p.m. Graduate student Dilini Subasinghe presented the digital slide presentation “The Kuiper Belt” before an audience of some 36 people and fielded questions. Other people arrived during the course of the evening for an estimated Read More …
Cloudy skies and rain greeted students from the London District Catholic School Board, Grade-7 Enrichment Program, for Exploring the Stars at Western University’s Cronyn Observatory, Wednesday, April 6th, 2016, 7:00 p.m. There were 37 visitors in all, including some 21 Grade-7 students and possibly other siblings, one teacher, 14 parents and one small child.