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1.
Public Lecture to kick off Science Week
In a major public lecture for National Science Week (Nov. 7-14), Dr Andy Shearer will explain everything you wanted to know
about neutron stars but were afraid to ask! In his talk, entitled ‘Pulsars: Cosmic Clocks and Little Green
Men’, Dr Shearer will give a captivating talk to the
general public on these extremely bizarre objects, and how our understanding of
them has developed in over 40 years. Only five spinning neutron stars have ever
been seen in normal light, like cosmic lighthouses, and Dr Shearer's Irish team
of astronomers based NUI Galway found two of them - a remarkable Irish success
story at the cutting edge of world science!
The lecture takes place next Monday night, November 8, at 8pm, in the Fitzgerald
Building, Trinity College Dublin, for more information on this
lecture click HERE. After the lecture there will be a social reception in The Lombard. All
guests are welcome to attend and you will have the opportunity to chat
with Dr Andy Shearer, other guests, and Astronomy Ireland staff and volunteers.
A
DVD is
available to order online for anyone who cannot make the talk on the night.
FREE
JUPITER WATCHES THROUGHOUT SCIENCE WEEK
As part of our Science Week celebrations, Astronomy Ireland will
be hosting a number of Nationwide
Jupiter Watches. We
encourage everyone to come along with friends and family to these free
events and see Jupiter through some of Ireland's most powerful
telescopes.
Watches will be held on the following dates
·
Tuesday, November 9,
·
Wednesday, November 10
·
Thursday November 11
Please
note: Dublin Watches will take place at the Astronomy Ireland offices
in Artane from 6pm.
More
locations will be added over the coming week, please keep checking our website www.astronomy.ie/scienceweek
for more information. Please
note Watches will go ahead regardless of weather.
DAVID
MOORE – ‘THE UNIVERSE’ LECTURE NOV.11
Astronomy Ireland Chairman, David Moore will give a lecture
entitled ‘The Universe’ on Thursday, November 11. This
lecture will take place in the Fitzgerald
(Physics) Building, Trinity College Dublin. The
lecture will take place at 8pm, admission is 5euro.
ASTRO-EXPO
NOV. 13
Astronomy
Ireland's annual astronomy exhibition will once again take place this year in
the SNIAM Building, Trinity College Dublin. This year's event is a one-day
affair, with people coming from all parts of Ireland. It takes place on
Saturday, November 13, and will include a high power amateur rocket display and
also:
SPEAKERS:
Our
keynote speaker this year is Irish amateur astronomer, David Grennan, who will
be speaking about the first Irish supernova. Other speakers include:
Carlos
Frank – ‘Cosmology – Everything from Nothing’
Peter
Gallagher – ‘Irish Radio Astronomy’
FREE:
There
is no entry fee to the exhibitions
The
price for lectures is 25euro for all three, or 10euro each (a 20% discount
applies to members of Astronomy Ireland).
Each
year, members from all over Ireland converge on Dublin for our annual
exhibition and lectures so don't miss this, our 20th annual event
"Astro-Expo" - Ireland's biggest annual space exhibition.
The
event runs from 12pm-6pm on Saturday, November 13. For more information and to
book your places click HERE or
call us on (01) 847 0777.
2. See Space Station in your Go-To
Telescope!
On
Saturday we’re holding a FREE Workshop to show everyone how
to hook your telescope up to a computer and look through the windows on the
ISS! All you need is some free software and a couple of cables.
Admission
is FREE and you don’t have to own a Celestron telescope
yet.
Workshop
starts at 5pm and if clear the ISS will fly over at 5.54pm when we will give a
live demo. See Dave Grennan’s early attempt here.
If
you can’t make it please call us and we will tell you how you can do it
at home!
Venue: Astronomy Ireland
Shop (map)
Time: 5pm Saturday
November 6th
P.S.
– Don’t forget you can see ISS every evening until Nov. 15 (Text
SPACE to 57003 for predictions)
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