Summer Sale Membership DVD Shop 2. International Speaker for Lecture & DVD: 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. Astrophotography Exhibition Opens Tonight Astronomy Ireland member and Cork Coordinator Denis Walsh opens his exhibition called Astrophotography & Cosmotography in Beara Dark Sky tonight, Friday, May 10th, at 9pm. The exhibition will feature some of Denis's breathtaking shots of the night sky, and it will take place in the Allihies Copper Mine Museum in Beara, West Cork. All are welcome to attend. For information on the museum's activities please visit www.acmm.ie 3. Dr Brian May in The Irish Times Astrophysicist and world-renowned musician was interviewed by journalist and Astronomy Ireland member Ronan McGreevy in yesterday's Irish Times. Dr May talked about his recent return to astronomy to complete his doctorate thesis that he began in the 1970s before he shot to fame with Queen, and how his love for astronomy was supported by his friend, the late Sir Patrick Moore. If you missed the print edition of the Irish Times yesterday, you can read the article online HERE. Astronomy Ireland The world's most popular astronomy club www.astronomy.ie ( subscribe / unsubscribe )