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Cronyn Observatory Public Night

Saturday, September 14, 8:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m. (sunset is at 7:36 p.m.)

See cronyn.uwo.ca for details of all our fall public nights for 2013.

Details for Sept. 14:

We will have professional astronomer give a short public talk about an astronomical topic.

The weather forecast looks good. There will be a pretty waxing gibbous Moon, and cool objects currently visible include the globular cluster M13 in Hercules, the well-known colorful double star Albireo, the donut-shaped Ring Nebula M57, and the magnificent Andromeda spiral galaxy M31. Come on out to catch a glimpse of these objects — and many more — with your own eyes through our telescopes!

This was so much fun that we must consider it as the inaugural event !

Here is the youtube video.

Our history web pages have a wonderful new addition.

Professor Emeritus  and photographer Donald R. Moorcroft has compiled a complete visual catalog of all of the stone carvings and sculptures which make up the exterior of the Physics and Astronomy Building.

This catalog of stone carvings is now part of our history web pages, which you may notice are now in a new location outside of the news folder structure of the departmental web pages. However they are still linked through the News area.

See the full pdf announcement.

Note that there will be a reception in the Physics and Astronomy atrium from 3:00 p.m. until 4:30 p.m. just before the talk.

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Here is an interesting article from BC:

http://www.theprovince.com/business/university+degrees+losing+their+value/8855657/story.html