It's a busy Wednesday and Thursday (sorry for short notice if you check emails infrequently):

Astronomy Ireland Chairman, David Moore will be interviewed by Pat Kenny on RTE Radio 1 on Wed (Feb 8) between 11am and noon about the society's upcoming Eclipse Holiday to Turkey next month and the beginners' Evening Classes starting Feb. 22 (note this is a NEW date)

Also at 1pm on Wed. Feb 8 at 1pm Dr Ian Elliott will give a lecture on on 'Grubbs of Dublin: Telescope makers and Victorian Entrepreneurs' in the Thomas Davis Theatre, Trinity College Dublin.

Then a few hours after being on national radio David Moore will be on television (RTE 1) with David McWilliams on "THE BIG BITE" at 2:30pm to 3:30pm talking about the future and space.

On Thursday (Feb 9) watch BBC 2 TV's Horizon programme at 9pm about "Missing Matter - only 4% of the Universe is made of stuff we understand"

For details or bookings go to:

Evening Classes: www.astronomy.ie/eveningclass.html

Eclipse Trip: www.astronomy.ie/turkeyeclipse.html

Black Holes Lecture: www.astronomy.ie/lecture0602.html

( BOOK NOW! U.K. speaker! )

In observing news:

Mars and Saturn are visible every evening. Saturn is on the edge of the Beehive star cluster (amazing binocular sight) and Mars is closing in on the Pleiades (also amazing!). See Sky Diary pages of our magazine for more details or order it here: www.astronomy.ie/sub

Visit Ireland's biggest telescope shop at www.astronomy.ie/shop.html

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