April 2003 - astronomy@lists.redbrick.dcu.ie

[Astronomy Ireland]AI member's telescope on RTE Radio 1
by David Moore 28 Apr '03

28 Apr '03

Astronomy Ireland member Eamonn Ansbro was on Morning Ireland RTE Radio 1 last week talking about the completion of his 36-inch telescope. You can still listen to the interview online (see below). Eamonn and his new telescope was on the cover of our April 2003 issue you will recall. > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Morning Ireland - The Morning News Service From RTE Interactive > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > 24�April�2003�10:31 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > ON MORNING IRELAND TODAY > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > 1. Growing concerns over SARS virus > 2. Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal retires at 94 > 3. Claims over destruction of Iraqi weapons > 4. Government rejects EU reform proposals > 5. Blair increases pressure on Sinn F�in > 6. Completion of telescope in Co Roscommon > 7. Health spending: Where does the money go? > 8. US military admits holding children at Guantanamo Bay > 9. Sports News > 10. Business News > 11. It Says In The Papers > [snip] > > 6.Completion of telescope in Co Roscommon > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Martina Fitzgerald talks to an astronomer in Boyle > 28k - > http://www.rte.ie/news/2003/0424/morningireland/morningireland6a.smil The above is the link to check. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Morning Ireland is a free weekday service from RTE bringing you the latest > news from Ireland. For regular news updates throughout the day check RTE > Interactive News at http://www.rte.ie/news/. > > If you experience any problems with this service then please email > newsonline(a)rte.ie. > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from Morning Ireland please go to the email > page on the RTE Interactive website at http://www.rte.ie/email.html > ------------------------------------------------------------ ===== David Moore BSc FRAS, Chairman, Astronomy Ireland, P.O.Box 2888, Dublin 5. Editor, "Astronomy & Space" magazine. ASTRONOMY SHOP: open Mon.-Fri. 9:30am-5:30pm and Sat. noon-6pm. Tel (01) 847 0777. Fax (01) 847 0771. WWW: http://www.astronomy.ie (Subscribe FREE to AI's Events emailing list) Email: info(a)astronomy.ie __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com

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Re: [Astronomy Ireland] Tonight with Vincent Browne, Columbia Lecture OnLine, Please Help us Pack Magazine
by David Moore 17 Apr '03

17 Apr '03

--- Dermot Rafter <dermotrafter(a)yahoo.ie> wrote: > Well done David. I wont take all the credit. Geraldine and Ben got thrown in at the deep end talking on Radio 1 with the great VB! > It was a wonderful mild clear night here in Wexford, > and I took the radio out on to the patio. > > I am a keen VB listener and I thought he handled the > show well. It was all Vincent's idea so he has a personal interest. Interesting angle too where he used actors, mytholosists etc. Never seen that done before. > I actually saw a satalite going over during the show > but it was very faint. hee hee. I saw a fairly bright one (mag 0 or +1) but he was in full flow and near the end of the show so I just couldnt interrup him. If you know anyone who wants to listen to the Show from last night they can simply go to: http://www.radio1.ie/evening/vincentbrowne/ and click on "Wednesday" near the bottom of the page. > Regards, > > Dermot ===== David Moore BSc FRAS, Chairman, Astronomy Ireland, P.O.Box 2888, Dublin 5. Editor, "Astronomy & Space" magazine. ASTRONOMY SHOP: open Mon.-Fri. 9:30am-5:30pm and Sat. noon-6pm. Tel (01) 847 0777. Fax (01) 847 0771. WWW: http://www.astronomy.ie (Subscribe FREE to AI's Events emailing list) Email: info(a)astronomy.ie __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo http://search.yahoo.com

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[Astronomy Ireland] Tonight with Vincent Browne, Columbia Lecture OnLine, Please Help us Pack Magazine
by David Moore 15 Apr '03

15 Apr '03

1. Wednesday RTE Radio 1 at 10pm after the News: Listen to members of Astronomy Ireland talking on the "Tonight with Vincent Browne" show, outside and 'live' show under a clear sky (hopefully!). A unique event. Get your radio and binoculars and join us for a night under the stars. You can listen live online at http://www.radio1.ie/evening/vincentbrowne/ just click on the box in the sidebar that says: "click here to listen live to Radio 1" If you miss the show you can listen to past shows online too: just click "Wednesday" at the bottom of that page and you should hear us. 2. Our April 14 Lecture was a great success with over 70 people attending to hear Brian Harvey explain what happened on "The Last Voyage of Columbia". You can watch this talk on our website NOW by going to http://www.astronomy.ie Then click "Lecture Webcasts" on the sidebar and then click "April" (there are 10 previous months' talks online too!) After Brian's talk you can hear David Moore describe the Transit of Mercury coming up on May 7 (see May issue of A&S, out soon). Thanks to our colleagues at DCU for making all this possible. 3. The May issue of our magazine arrives in our office/Shop on Wednesday (the same day some of us are due to go on the VB show!). Therefore we need even more volunteers to come in and help pack the magazine into envelopes all day, and late into the night. If you've got an hour or more to spare between 10am and 11pm please call 847 0777 any time. There's a map at http://www.astronomy.ie/map.html We could really use your support this month as we want to get the magazine in to the post on Wednesday night so it might be delivered BEFORE Easter! If you can bring any friends to help please do! ===== David Moore BSc FRAS, Chairman, Astronomy Ireland, P.O.Box 2888, Dublin 5. Editor, "Astronomy & Space" magazine. ASTRONOMY SHOP: open Mon.-Fri. 9:30am-5:30pm and Sat. noon-6pm. Tel (01) 847 0777. Fax (01) 847 0771. WWW: http://www.astronomy.ie (Subscribe FREE to AI's Events emailing list) Email: info(a)astronomy.ie __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo http://search.yahoo.com

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[Astronomy Ireland]Important Columbia Disaster Lecture Monday April 14
by David Moore 13 Apr '03

13 Apr '03

This is a final reminder that Brian Harvey will explain what happened to the Space Shuttle Columbia on February 1st when it was destroyed on re-entry killing all 7 astronauts at a SPECIAL ASTRONOMY IRELAND PUBLIC LECTURE on Monday April 14th at 8:00pm in the main lecture hall of the Henry Grattan Building at DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY Please bring as many people as you can. It will obviously be a talk requiring no technical knowledge. If you have never been to D.C.U. before it is very simple to get to: just make your way to Collins Avenue and go in the main entrance to D.C.U. The multi-storey car park is on your left, you can't miss it. It's then just a very short walk to the Henry Grattan Building as this campus map shows: (map: http://www.dcu.ie/dcumisc/location/campus.html) Doors open at 7:30pm so please be early. See you there for what should be a very interesting evening! ===== David Moore BSc FRAS, Chairman, Astronomy Ireland, P.O.Box 2888, Dublin 5. Editor, "Astronomy & Space" magazine. ASTRONOMY SHOP: open Mon.-Fri. 9:30am-5:30pm and Sat. noon-6pm. Tel (01) 847 0777. Fax (01) 847 0771. WWW: http://www.astronomy.ie (Subscribe FREE to AI's Events emailing list) Email: info(a)astronomy.ie __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com

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[Astronomy Ireland] Book Now for Space Shuttle Disaster Public Lecture April 14
by Astronomy Ireland PR 09 Apr '03

09 Apr '03

ASTRONOMY IRELAND Press Notice April 9 SPECIAL PUBLIC LECTURE "T h e L a s t V o y a g e o f C o l u m b i a" 8pm Monday April 14 Dublin City University Just over two months since the space shuttle Columbia was destroyed on February 1st killing all 7 astronauts it is time to review what has been discovered about the cause of the catastrophe. Internationally renowned space author Brian Harvey will give a special public lecture organised by ASTRONOMY IRELAND - Ireland's largest space interest group. Mr Harvey will give the very latest analysis. Everyone is welcome to come along to Dublin City University on April 14 to hear a man who has made professional studies of the space programmes of all the world's space faring nations. Brian Harvey has published definitive books on the space programmes of Russia, India, Japanese and the European Space Agency of which Ireland is a part and which uses the space shuttle fleet to launch its own astronauts and space modules. Brian can be regularly heard on radio commenting on world space matters. All this makes Brian Harvey one of the world's experts, if not the world expert, on manned spaceflight. His next book is to deal with the forthcoming launch by China of their first man in space, a fact many in the West have neglected. --------------------------------synopsis------------------------------- The space shuttle Columbia burned up over Texas just over two months ago. Ever since then, NASA and other experts have been trying to explain the sudden and tragic events of 1st February. Up to five thousand people are still combing Texas and Louisiana for tell-tale debris. Two weeks ago, the black box was recovered and this is expected to yield important clues. It's now apparent that the shuttle was in serious trouble long before it crossed the California coastline. In 'Columbia's last journey', Brian Harvey looks at what we now know about the last minutes of Columbia and what has been learned in the painstaking evaluation of debris so far. There are indications that there were, in retrospect, warning signs from previous missions of dangers to the left wing tiles. Now NASA faces some really hard choices about what it must do to get the shuttle into the air again - if at all. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Event : Astronomy Ireland Public Lecture Title : "THE LAST VOYAGE OF COLUMBIA" Date : Monday 14th April at 8:00pm (doors open 7:30pm) Speaker : Brian Harvey, space author Venue : main lecture hall, Henry Grattan Building, DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY (Glasnevin, Dublin 9) Admission : All welcome (5 Euro adults, 3 Euro children/student) Bookings : Astronomy Ireland on (01) 847 0777 CALL MONDAY TO SATURDAY UP TO 6PM TO BOOK SEATS AS THIS LECTURE IS LIKELY TO BE VERY POPULAR AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC HAVE BEEN BOOKING PLACES ALL WEEK LONG. YOU CAN BOOK FOR FRIENDS AS WELL!!! YOU CALL TO RESERVE YOUR PLACES AND THEN PAY AT THE DOOR ON THE NIGHT, THIS WAY YOU ARE GUARANTEED A SEAT. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com

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