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1.  Star-B-Q Success!

This year’s Star-B-Q at the weekend was another great success, with around 300 people attending in Roundwood, Co Wicklow. The barbecued food went down very well and everyone enjoyed the three talks.

After talks as it got dark we went outside to the telescopes. Some cloud cover quickly disappeared to give us great views of the wonders of the Universe underneath the dark skies, including the Andromeda Galaxy, the Great Hercules Cluster, and of course, the nova in Delphinus!

DVDs of the Star-B-Q talks can be ordered online at www.astronomy.ie/dvd

We will have a full report of the event with photos in the coming days on our website.

2.  Public Lecture: The Past, Present, and Future of Lunar Science

The Moon has been the subject of great fascination for thousands of years, but it wasn't until the 1950s and 1960s, when we sent orbiting and landing spacecraft to explore its surface, that we made giant leaps forward to understand its origin and evolution. In 2013 our knowledge is still growing with state of the art cameras capturing photographs of geological features down to only a few metres in size, and geophysics missions measuring the state of the lunar crust in never before seen detail. This renewed interest in the Moon is on-going with two more lunar missions being launched in the next year by the USA and China, and the race is on between nations and commercial enterprises to continue the exploration of our nearest neighbour.

This lecture will be delivered by Dr Katherine Joy who we are flying in especially to talk to you from the University of Manchester.

It takes place on Monday, September 16^th at 8pm in Trinity College Dublin. For tickets and DVDs, please click HERE.

3.  BBC The Sky at Night

Fatal Attraction: Chris Lintott talks to the astronomer royal about black holes, the beating heart of galaxies which also have a destructive side.

TSAN SEPTEMBER 2013

Mon Sep. 02 at 12:20am BBC 1 Northern Ireland

Mon Sep. 02 at 12:20am BBC One HD

Wed Sep. 04 at 07:30pm BBC FOUR

Thu Sep. 05 at 12:50am BBC FOUR

Sat Sep. 07 at 11:10am BBC 2 Northern Ireland

Sat Sep. 07 at 11:10am BBC Two HD

Sun Sep. 08 at 02:20am 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

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