1. TELEVISION
This Saturday Feb. 3rd tune in to RTE 2 Television for the young
people's programme "Sattitude" at 10am (
www.rte.ie/tv/theden//sattitude)
and you will see Astronomy Ireland Chairman David Moore. He will be interviewed
about the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence in response to a recently
published Irish book on UFOs. Set your video!
Two more TV appearances are scheduled for Astronomy Ireland by
the way: On Mon Feb 12 "Seoige & O'Shea" RTE 1 TV at 4:30pm, John Gribbin
will talk about his new book 'The Universe: A Biography', and the public lecture
(
www.astronomy.ie/lecture200702.html)
he is giving for us that night in TCD. Then later in February David Moore
will be back talking about Ireland in space.
2. AIRS - the
Astronomy Ireland Radio
Show
This week's AIRS is now online at
www.astronomy.ie/AIRS for everyone all
around Ireland to download (why not do this every week!).
Find out all about cosmology, the Hubble Space
Telescope break down, and Saturn passing extremely close to the Moon on
Friday.
3. FIREBALL
A brilliant fireball (extremely bright meteor) was seen from all
over Ireland last Wed January 24th around 7:30am.
If you saw it please fill out the form on our website while it's
still fresh in your memory.
Go to
www.astronomy.ie and
click on "report a fireball" in the menu on the left.
4. EVENING
CLASSES
Don't forget our beginner's Astronomy Classes start tonight (Jan
31) in Trinity College Dublin (Physics Building).
You can still register online at
www.astronomy.ie or come along early on the
night (7pm at the latest).
There are 10 classes, every Wednesday evening. If you cannot
make the first class you can still register and start next week (Feb. 7) which
many people often do.
For those living too far from Dublin we are looking in to
organising classes in other cities.
Email
sec@astronomy.ie if
you are interested in attending or giving (training will be provided) classes in
your area.
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