To mark the centenary of the birth of Armagh Planetarium's founder Dr E.M. Lindsay (1907-1974), a one-day conference is being held at The Rotunda, St. Patrick's Trian, 40 English St., Armagh on Friday 26th January

That evening astronomer, writer and broadcaster Dr Alan Chapman, will give a PUBLIC LECTURE at 7:30pm entitled "Robert Ball: Ireland's Astronomical Muse".

If you can't wait for that, then this Friday (Jan. 19) the Trinity College Physical Society (Physoc) is playing host to Dr. C. Alex Young, NASA Senior Scientist. Dr. Young will be giving a talk entitled

At 7.30pm in the Schrödinger lecture theatre in the Fitzgerald building in TCD. Dr. Young is involved in many Solar Physics missions such as SOHO, STEREO, SDO and HINODE/SOLAR-B. He will give an introduction to the Sun and proceed to talk about the future of Solar Spacecraft - of particular interest as 2007 has been designated the International Heliophysical Year.

Sooner still is Trinity Astronomical and Space Society's (TASS) public lecture by Professor Lynden-Bell, Professor of Astrophysics, Cambridge University on Thursday January 18th at 7:30pm in the Physics Building, T.C.D. Same venue as Astronomy Ireland's monthly meetings (www.astronomy.ie/events)

This is a very rare opportunity to hear such an eminent speaker, so TASS would like to extend an invitation to you all to attend as guests of theirs. Admission is free courtesy of TASS so to advise of numbers could you email gillesjb@tcd.ie to say how many of you are going.

REST OF IRELAND:
As a service to all our subscribers in every part of Ireland we have made a DVD of our "sell out" New Year Lecture by the Astronomer Royal of Scotland "Black Holes & White Rabbits". To cover costs it's only 5euro. Prof John Brown (the 10th Astronomer Royal) gave a superb talk about Black Holes and performed several magic tricks to a packed hall in TCD on Jan 8. There was standing room only and, unfortunately we had to turn a large number of people away (we're organising a larger hall in TCD for Dr John Gribbin's Feb 12 lecture and book launch "The Universe - a Biography" so book places here www.astronomy.ie/lecture200702.html). You can order the New Year Lecture DVD online at www.astronomy.ie/lectureDVD.html

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