Spring Sale Membership DVD Shop 1. Public Lecture: The Billion Euro Telescope Astronomy Ireland welcomes an international speaker for its May Public Lecture about a billion euro telescope, the ALMA Project in Chile! Dr John Richer from the University of Cambridge is the UK Project Scientist for ALMA, and he will explain in this lecture how the facility will allow astronomers to peer deep inside star-forming regions of galaxies, otherwise invisible to telescopes such as the Hubble Space Telescope. It will enable transformational research into the physics of the cold Universe, probe the first stars and galaxies, and directly image the formation of planets. ALMA - short for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array - is an extremely important project in science and when completed it can effectively configure its 50 individual telescopes to act as a single large telescope 16km across! It is the biggest and most expensive ground-based astronomical project being built at over a billion euro already. The lecture will take place in Trinity College Dublin next Monday, May 13th, at 8pm. To book tickets or to order DVDs, please click HERE or call (01) 890 11 11. 2. "The Sky at Night" BBC May 2013 Stunning Saturn: With Saturn in our evening skies, the team investigate the storm that is still raging in the planet's atmosphere, and illustrate Saturn's 'opposition effect'. TSAN MAY 2013 Mon May 06 at 12:05am BBC 1 Northern Ireland Mon May 06 at 12:05am BBC One HD Thu May 09 at 07:30pm BBC FOUR Fri May 10 at 01:50am BBC FOUR Sat May 11 at 11:10am BBC 2 Northern Ireland Sat May 11 at 11:10am BBC Two HD Sun May 12 at 01:05am 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 For advice on telescopes to view the objects in this programme call Ireland's biggest telescope shop at Astronomy Ireland: www.astronomy.ie/shop or call (01) 890 11 11 six days a week. 3. Saturn Watch Saturn is now in evening skies and a truly spectacular sight in a powerful telescope. Would you like us to organise a Saturn Watch at our Telescope Shop in Airside Enterprise Centre (next to Dublin Airport)? If so, what day of the week do you prefer and can you help us organise and run it? Astronomy Ireland The world's most popular astronomy club www.astronomy.ie ( subscribe / unsubscribe )