Category: Outreach & Education

Graduate student Emily McCullough greeted 43 visitors from the Northdale Central Public School Grade-6 class (Dorchester) at the Cronyn Observatory for Exploring the Stars on Wednesday, January 30th, 7:00 p.m. Two more adults arrived around 8:15 p.m. for a total of 45 visitors (20 children and 25 adults). Emily made the digital slide presentation, “The Read More …

Cloudy skies and rain greeted 44 visitors (26 children and 18 adults) from the Grade-6 class of Northdale Central Public School in Dorchester, to the Cronyn Observatory for Exploring the Stars on Tuesday, January 29th, 7:00 p.m. They were welcomed by graduate students Emily McCullough and Parshati Patel. Emily made the digital slide presentation, “The Read More …

Graduate students Allison Hill and Ted Rudyk greeted 8 visitors (6 girls and 2 counsellors) from the 8th Grade GEMS to the Cronyn Observatory on Thursday, January 24th, 7:30 p.m. Allison made the digital slide presentation, “The Solar System,” and brought the group upstairs into the dome. It was a very cold night with clear Read More …

A hazy cloudy sky greeted 23 visitors (14 children and 9 adults) from the London Waldorf School to the Cronyn Observatory for Exploring the Stars on Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013, 7:00 p.m. Graduate students Emily McCullough and Ted Rudyk immediately brought them upstairs into the dome where Ted showed them Jupiter through the 25.4cm refractor. Read More …

Clear hazy skies greeted 19 visitors (12 children, one infant and 6 adults) from the 37th London Beavers to the Cronyn Observatory for Exploring the Stars, Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013, 6:30 p.m. Graduate student Emily McCullough brought them immediately up into the dome and showed them the 4-day-past-first-quarter Moon through the 25.4cm refractor (52mm Erfle Read More …