1. Public Lecture: The Billion Euro
Telescope
Astronomy Ireland welcomes an international speaker
for its May Public Lecture about a billion euro telescope, the ALMA Project in
Chile!
Dr John Richer from the University of Cambridge is the UK Project Scientist
for ALMA, and he will explain in this lecture how the facility will allow
astronomers to peer deep inside star-forming regions of galaxies, otherwise
invisible to telescopes such as the Hubble Space Telescope. It will enable
transformational research into the physics of the cold Universe, probe the first
stars and galaxies, and directly image the formation of planets.
ALMA - short for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array
- is an extremely important project in science and when completed it can
effectively configure its 50 individual telescopes to act as a single large
telescope 16km across! It is the biggest and most expensive ground-based
astronomical project being built at over a billion euro already.
The lecture will take place in Trinity College Dublin next Monday, May
13th, at 8pm.
To book tickets or to order DVDs, please click
HERE or call (01) 890 11
11.
2. "The Sky at Night" BBC May
2013
Stunning Saturn: With Saturn in our evening skies, the team investigate the
storm that is still raging in the planet's atmosphere, and illustrate Saturn's
'opposition effect'.
TSAN MAY 2013
Mon May 06 at 12:05am BBC 1 Northern
Ireland
Mon May 06 at 12:05am BBC One HD
Thu May 09 at 07:30pm BBC
FOUR
Fri May 10 at 01:50am BBC FOUR
Sat May 11 at 11:10am BBC 2 Northern
Ireland
Sat May 11 at 11:10am BBC Two HD
Sun May 12 at 01:05am BBC
FOUR
Note that the BBC1 and BBC2 programmes are shorter versions (20
minutes).
Try to watch BBC FOUR transmissions (30 minutes)
All of the Sky At Night team have now given public lectures to Astronomy
Ireland, all of which you can get on DVD by post at
www.astronomy.ie/dvd
For advice on telescopes to view the objects in this programme call
Ireland's biggest telescope shop at Astronomy Ireland:
www.astronomy.ie/shop or
call (01) 890 11 11 six days a week.
3. Saturn Watch
Saturn is now in evening skies and a truly spectacular sight in a powerful
telescope. Would you like us to organise a Saturn Watch at our Telescope Shop in
Airside Enterprise Centre (next to Dublin Airport)? If so, what day of the week
do you prefer and can you help us organise and run it?