We have kept recordings of most lectures over the years going back to 2004. If there is a particular one you would like a copy of give us a call at 086 0646 555 and we will do our best to find it in our archives.
2017
| April 10th Communications with Extra-terrestrial Civilisations By Dr. Eamonn Ansbro, M.Ast, M.Phil, PhD (ABD), FRAS | |
| March 13th 2017 “The puzzle of gamma-ray bursts” By Dr. Martin Topinka, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. | |
| February 12th Sungrazing Comets – Falling Into Hell by Professor Alan Fitzsimmons, Queens University Belfast | |
| January 9th 2017 “Space: a platform to inspire the next generation of Engineers, Scientists and Innovators” by Dr. Norah Patten, International Space University | |
| December 12th ‘Where next after Rosetta? Comets, asteroids, and some confused objects in between’ by Dr. Colin Snodgrass, Open University. | |
| November 14th ‘100 Years of General Relativity: from Black Holes to Gravitational Waves’ by Dr. Cormac O’Raifeartaigh, Waterford Institute of Technology. | |
| October 10th “The Cosmic Chemical Cauldron by Dr. Helen Fraser, Open University, UK. | |
| September 19th “Blow up a Star and find Dark Energy”, By Dr. Cosimo Inserra, Queens University, Belfast. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| Star-B-Q 2016 Talks | |
| Black Holes by Dr Paul Callanan from University College Cork. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| Black Space: how outer space has changed on our TV and cinema screens by Dr Padraig Murphy, DCU Science Communication Course Director. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| The Universe by David Moore, a mini-version of his one-man stage-show selling out theatres across Ireland this year. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| August 8th “The world in eleven dimensions” by Professor Michael Duff, Theoretical Physics, Imperial College London | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| July 11th Neptune, Triton and the Outer Solar System by Dr. Craig Agnor, Queen Mary University of London | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| June 13th “Multi wavelength Universe, as observed with the telescopes of the 21st century” by Dr. Masha Chernyakova of DCU | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| May 16th 2016 May 16th 2016 “An Emerging Cosmic Perspective” By Kevin Nolan of the Planetary Society | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| April 11th 2016 “Venus Exploration: past, present and future ” By Dr Colin Wilson, University of Oxford University. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| March 14th 2016 “Exploring the low – frequency Universe with LOFAR” By Dr. Peter Gallagher, Physics and Astrophysics, TCD | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| February 8th 2016 ” The Bizarre Nature of Volcanism on Early-Forming Asteroids” by Professor Lionel Wilson of Lancaster University. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| January 18th 2016 “The Beauty and Science of Nebulae” by Dr. Carolin Crawford, University of Cambridge. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| January 5th International Space Station Operations and Tim Peake’s Principia Mission” by Andrea Boyd, ISS Flight Operations Engineer, Space Applications Services | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| Dec 14th 2015 “Exoplanets and the Search for ET” By Dr. Duncan Forgan of Edinburgh University. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| Nov. 9th 2015Mapping the Universe, The Sloan Digital Sky Survey By Dr. Karen Masters, University of Portsmouth, UK. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| Oct 12th 2015 TBA By Professor Stephen J Smartt of Queen’s University Belfast | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| Sept. 21st 2015 “Rosetta the comet chaser – up close & personal” By Dr Laurence O’Rourke, Irishman at European Space Agency. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| Star-B-Q August 15 2015 Prof. Susan McKenna Lawlor, Leo Enright and David Moore. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| Aug 10th 2015 “The Sun – Our Star By Professor Mihalis Mathioudakis, Queen’s University Belfast. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| July 6th 2015 “Cosmic dust: The stuff of asteroids and comets” by Dr. Mathew Genge, Imperial College London. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| June 15 2015 “Star Formation in the Milky Way and in the Early Universe” By Jorick Vink of Armagh Observatory | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2015 May 11 “Einstein and the Big Bang” by Dr Cormac O Raifeartaigh, Waterford Institute of Technology | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2015 April 13 “Dark Matter? Dark Energy? – What we don’t know about the Universe” by Professor Andy Shearer of NUIG | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2015 March 9 “Russian Space Science” By Brian Harvey Space Author. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2015 February 9 “Exploring the Realm of the Giants” By Dr. Leigh Fletcher, University of Oxford | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2015 January 12 “A surprising Comet” Dr. Pedro Lacerda of the Max Planck Institute. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2014 December 8 “How to blow up a star” by Dr Stuart Sim of QUB. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| ASTRO-EXPO 2014 | |
| 1pm- Tom O’Donoghue, “Astro-photography” | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 3pm- Dr. Ian Sanders, TCD Geology Department “Meteorites” | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 5pm- John Hackett, “Human Space Flight – The Near Future “ | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2014 November 10 ” The Great Stone Circle at Lough Gur” by Dr. Frank Prendergast of DIT. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2014 October 13 “A bird’s eye view of the Milky Way” By Dr. John Magorrian, Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2014 September 8 ” Putting Soil into Orbit” by Sara Vero of Teagasc. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2014 August 11 “Comets and Culture” By Dr. Patrick McCafferty, Queens University , Queen’s University Belfast | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2014 July 14 ‘Imaging other worlds’ by Dr. Markus Janson, Queen’s University, Belfast. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2014 June 9 “Puzzles of the Gamma Ray Universe” by Dr. Masha Chernyakova, DCU. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2014 May 09 “Dreams and Aspirations: A vision becoming a reality?” by Dr Norah Patten Icomp, Univ. of Limerick. Info…. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2014 April 14 “Exploring the Dynamic Universe” by Professor Andy Newsam, Liverpool John Moore’s University. Info… | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2014 March 10 “Detectors for Particle Physics at CERN and other applications” By Professor Val O’Shea, University of Glasgow. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2014 February 10 “Our Dynamic Sun” by Dr. Helen Mason, University of Cambridge. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2014 January 13 ‘Einstein and the expanding Universe’ by Dr Cormac O’Raifeartaigh, WIT. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2013 December 9 ‘ESA Missions Present and Future’ By Professor Alvaro Giménez Cañete, Director ESA. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| Astro-Expo 16/11/2013 | |
| 2013 November 16 ‘Comet ISON on Camera’ By David Moore. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2013 November 16 ‘Chasing Solar Eclipses’ By Dr Kate Russo. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2013 November 16 ‘Exploring Mars, Discovering Earth’ By Kevin Nolan. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2013 November 11 ‘How to build a Galaxy’ By Dr. Mark Wilkinson, University of Leicester. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2013 October 14 ‘Building and operating robotic spacecraft’ By Dr. Leah-Nani S Alconel, UCL, London. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2013 September 16 ‘The Past, Present and Future of Lunar Science’ By Dr Katherine Joy, University of Manchester. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| Star-B-Q 31/08/2013 | |
| “Solar Maximum: The Sun-Earth Connection” by Dave Gradwell. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| “Light Pollution in Ireland” by Dr Brian Espey, Trinity College Dublin. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| “A Tour of the Universe” by David Moore, Astronomy Ireland. | |
| 2013 August 12 ‘Plasma and the Early Universe’ by Professor Steven Cowley UK Atomic Energy Authority. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2013 July 08 ‘Are We Alone’ by Dr Robin Catchpole, Cambridge University. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2013 June 10th ‘Meteorites: Myth, Mystery and Marvel’ By Dr. Caroline Smith, Curator at Natural History Museum, London. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2013 May 13th ‘A New View of the Cold Universe; first results from ALMA’ by Professor John Richer, Cambridge University. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2013 April 29th ‘The Gloria Project in a Nutshell’ by Professor Lorraine Hanlon, UCD. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2013 March 11th ‘Fingerprinting the Universe’ by Dr. Andrew Liddle of Edinburgh University. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2013 February 11th ‘Exploring the Current Solar Cycle with the Solar Dynamics Observatory’ By Dr. Ryan Milligan, Queens University Belfast. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2013 January 14th ‘Exploring Mars: Curiosity, Water and Life’ By Dr Peter Grindrod, UCL, London. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2012 December 10th ‘Exploring Extrasolar Worlds: from gas giants to terrestrial habitable planets’ By Dr Giovanna Tinetti, Dept of Physics and Astronomy, UCL London. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| ASTRO- EXPO | |
| ‘The Universe’ – David Moore | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| ‘The Latest from the Mars Curiosity Rover’ – Kevin Nolan | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2012 November 12th ‘Gaia: Mapping the Milky Way’ By Dr. Nicholas Walton, Cambridge University. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2012 October 08 ‘The God Particle Explained’ by Dr. Cormac O Raifeartaigh, Waterford Institute of Technology. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2012 September 15 Star-B- Q Lecture by Sky at Night’s Pete Lawrence. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2012 September 15 Star- B-Q Supernova Lecture by David Grennan. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2012 September 10 ‘In Search of the Northern Lights’ by Dr. James Wild of Lancaster University. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2012 August 13 ‘Ancient Astronomical Alignments’ by tour guide Martin Byrne. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2012 July 13 ‘Current developments at CERN’ by Prof. Rolf Heuer, CERN, Geneva. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2012 July 09 ‘Fingerprinting the Universe’ by Prof Andrew Liddle Sussex University | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2012 June 11 ‘Upgrading Humans: a user guide’ by Professor Kevin Warwick, Cybernetics, Reading University. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2012 May 14 ‘The Science of Armageddon’ by Jay Tate of the Spaceguard Centre, Wales. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2012 April 16 ‘Telescopes of the 21st Century’ by Professor Michael Merrifield, University of Nottingham. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2012 February 13 ‘ The Future of Astronomy and Space Exploration’ by Kevin Nolan of the Planetary Society. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2012 January 09 ‘Searching for particles at the LHC, Cern. by Prof. Peter Watkins, University of Bermingham. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2011 December 12 ‘Why Pluto isn’t a Planet’ by Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Oxford University. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| ASTRO EXPO 2011 November 19 | |
| ‘Observing explosions on the Sun’ By Dave Gradwell. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| ‘Faster than light-was Einstein wrong’ by Dr Cormac O Raifeartaigh. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2011 November 14 ‘The Birth and Death of Stars’ By Dr. Gareth Murphy, School of Cosmic Physics, DIAS. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2011 October 10 ‘Sounds of the Cosmos’ by Dr. Lewis Dartnell, UCL/Birkbeck UK | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2011 September 12 ‘The Role of Supernovae in Modern Cosmology’ By Tom Boles, Supernova Hunter | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2011 August 27 Star-B-Q “The Universe” By David Moore, Chairman of Astronomy Ireland. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2011 August 27 Star-B-Q “Hunting Supernovae” By David Grennan, Raheny Observatory | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2011 August 27 Star-B-Q “Black Holes and How They Work” By Paul Abel, The Sky at Night. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2011 August 8 The next generation of Exoplanet Surveys by Dr. Don Pollacco of Queens University Belfast. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2011 July 11 The Extraordinary Universe; looking at Gamma-rays from Space By Dr. Mark Lang, Head of School of Physics, NUI Galway. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2011 June 13 The Sun and Space Weather by Dr Lyndsay Fletcher, University of Glasgow, UK. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2011 May 9 Herschel; the first two years by Dr. Chris North, Cardiff University. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2011 April 11 The LHC and recent operation with beams by Dr. Stephen Myers, Cern, Switzerland. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2011 March 14 Amateur Rocketry; an uplifting hobby by Colin Fitzsimons | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2011 February 14 Astronomy in Irish pre-history by Frank Prendergast DIT. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2011 January 10 ESA – current and future missions by Professor David Southwood, director ESA | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2010 December 13 Does Astronomy Matter by Dr. Ian Corbett, General Secretary, IAU | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2010 Astro-Expo “The first Irish Supernova” by David Grennan | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2010 Astro-Expo ” Cosmology” by Prof. Carlos Frenk | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2010 Astro-Expo ” Irish Radio Astronomy” by Dr. Peter Gallagher | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2010 November 11 The Universe by David Moore | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2010 November 8 “Pulsars” By Dr. Andy Shearer, Centre for Astronomy, NUI Galway. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2010 October 11 Astrobiology By Lewis Dartnell | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2010 September 13 The Anthikythera Mechanism By Professor Mike Edmunds of Cardiff University | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2010 Sept 4 Star-B-Q “The Universe” By David Moore, Chairman of Astronomy Ireland. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2010 September 4 Star-B-Q “the Secrets of the Stones By Anthony Murphy | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2010 September 4 Star-B-Q “Moon Landings Hoax By Dr. Martin Hendry, University of Glasgow. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2010 August 9 Gamma-ray Astronomy: A New Window on the Extreme Universe By Dr. John Quinn, School of Physics, University College Dublin | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2010 July 12 “Observations of Saturn’s magnetic environment by the Cassini-Huygens mission” By Dr Caitriona Jackman, Imperial College London. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2010 June 14 “Black Holes, The LHC, and The God Particle” by Dr. Cormac O’Raifeartaigh of Waterford IT | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2010 May 10 “Studying Winds from Red Giants with HST and FUSE” by Dr. Brian Espey of Trinity College Dublin | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2010 April 12 “Mercury -New Insights” by Dr. David Rothery of the Open University, UK. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2010 March 8 “Behold Mars” By Kevin Nolan of the Planetary Society. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2010 February 8 “Living with a star” By Dr. Chris Davis, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2010 January 25 “400 Years of the Telescope” by Professor Allan Chapman, Wadham College, Oxford. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2009 December “The European Southern Observatory” by Professor Tim De Zeeuw of ESO. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| Nov. 14 Astro-Expo 2009 | |
| “Imaging the night sky” by Kevin Sweeney | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| “Mars – a Cosmic Stepping Stone” by Kevin Nolan | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| “Meteorites” by Dr Ian Sanders, TCD. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2009 November 9 “The Big Bang” By Dr. Cormac O’Raifeartaigh, Physics Department, Waterford Institute of Technology. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2009 October 9 “The View From Saturn: Images From The Cassini Spacecraft” By Professor Carl Murray of Queen Mary University of London | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2009 September 14 “Searching for exoplanets” By Dr. Chris Watson, Astrophysics Research Ctr, QUB HERE | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2009 August 10 “Mad about Meteorites” By Matthew Parkes, of the National Museum of Ireland. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2009 July 23 “Moonshot” By BBC journalist Dan Parry | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2009 July 13 “Dark matter and the smallest galaxies, elementary particle physics to the Universe” By Professor Gerry Gilmore Cambridge University, UK. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2009 June 15 “Hanny’s Voorwerp” by Hanny Van Arkel | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2009 June 8 “Asteroids – recent Irish discoveries” by David Grennan and Dave McDonald | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2009 May 11 “Shamrock and Space” by NASA Scientist Anthony Heijenga. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2009 April 20 “From the Moon to Matroshka” by Professor Denis O’Sullivan , School of Cosmic Physics, | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2009 April 1 “Evening Class Telescope Lecture” by David Moore, Chairman of Astronomy Ireland. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2009 March 16 “The European Space Agency” By Professor David Southwood, Director of ESA. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2009 February 9 “Cosmic Casualty: Farce and Fortuity in the Exploration of Space” By Doug Ellison of unmannedspaceflight.com | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2009 January 12 “Touchdown on Titan” by Professor John Zarnecki of the Open University | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2008 December 8 “Living in the Sun’s Atmosphere” By Dr. Lucie Green, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, U.K. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2008 November 10 “Smoking Stars” by Dr. Simon Jeffery of Armagh Observatory. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| Astro-Expo 2008 from the Science Gallery TCD | |
| ‘The Wrath of Ra’ (a lecture on the Sun and how it affects us) by Dr. James McAteer of NASA and TCD Astrophysics | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| ‘Celtic Rock – hunting for Asteroids’ by Dave McDonald. Dave recently discovered the second asteroid ever from Ireland (2008 TM9). | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| ‘The Coming Space Power of China’ by renowned space author and A&S contributor Brian Harvey. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2008 October 13 “Search for Radio Emission from Extrasolar Planets” by Gregg Hallinan NUI Galway. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2008 September 8 “Light Pollution in Ireland” by Albert White of ILPAC. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2008 August 11 “The Cosmological Distance Ladder – our key to understanding the Universe” by Professor Michael Rowan Robinson. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2008 July 14 “From Babylon to the Big Bang – History of Astronomy” by Couper & Henbest | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2008 June 9 “Direct Dark Matter Searches” by Professor Tim Sumner, Astrophysics Group, Imperial College London. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2008 May 12 “Astronomy in Ireland” by Robert Hill of the Northern Ireland Space Office in Armagh Planetarium. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2008 April 14 “CERN – searching for Dark Matter and mini Black Holes” by Dr. Brian Cox, CERN, Geneva | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2008 March 31 “Adventures with the Hubble Space Telescope” by Lars Lindberg Christensen, Head of Communications ESA/Hubble | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2008 March 10 “Shooting the Planets and Eclipse with Patrick Moore” by Carl O’Beirnes and David Grennan | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2008 February 11 “LISA – Gravitational Wave Mission” By Dr Harry Ward, Institute for Gravitational Research, University of Glasgow, Scotland. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2008 January 14 “Meteorites – New Evidence Uncovered” By Dr. Ian Sanders, Trinity College Dublin. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| Astro-Expo 2007 | |
| ” The Sun” by Dr. Miruna Popescu, Armagh Observatory | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| “Astrophotography” by Carl O’Beirnes, Astronomy Shop. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| “Light Pollution” by Albert White of ILPAC, | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2007 December 10″Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” By Dr. Tim O’Brien, Jodrell Bank Observatory, UK. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2007 November “The Day the Sun attacked the Earth” by Stuart Clark. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2007 November 12″Near Earth Asteroids” By Dr. Neil McBride, Open University, UK. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2007 October 8 “Extrasolar Planets and the hunt for life in the Universe” By Dr. Ian Stevens, University of Bermingham, Uk. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2007 September 10 “Supernovae – hunting exploding stars” By Professor Stephen Smartt, Queens University, Belfast | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2007 August 13 “Building a Universe – Byte by Byte” by Professor Brad Gibson, Theoretical Astrophysics, University Central Lancashire, UK. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2007 July 09 “The Birth of Stars and Planets” by Dr Emma Whelan of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2007 June 11 “The Heliosphere – Living inside the Sun’s Atmosphere” by Dr. Peter Gallagher, NASA/TCD. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2007 May 14 “Digital Deep Sky Astrophotography” by Dr. Dave Grennan and Jed Glover | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2007 April 16 “Black holes: observation, theory and geometry ” ” by Dr. Oisin Mac Conamhna | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2007 March 12 “Bang – A Complete History of the Universe” by Dr. Chris Lintott of BBC’s Sky at Night program | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2007 February 12 “The Universe a Biography” By Dr. John Gribben | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2007 January 8 “Black Holes and White Rabbits” by Prof. John Brown. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2006 December 11 “Women in Astronomy” by Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Oxford. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2 December Astro-Expo 2006 | |
| “Future far-infrared astronomy projects and prospects” by Dr. Neil Trappe of NUI Maynooth | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| “Island of the Setting Sun – In Search of Ireland’s Ancient Astronomers” by Anthony Murphy, Mythical Ireland. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| “European Southern Observatory” by Claus Madsen of ESO (Germany). | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| “Reaching out to ET” by Dr Martin Griffiths of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, Glamorgan University. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2006 November 13 “Blackrock Castle Robotic Observatory” By Dr. Niall Smith, CIT. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2006 October 9 “NASAs Vision for Space Exploration/ ESA’s Aurora Program” By Kevin Nolan of the Planetary Society | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 11 September 2006 “Current European Space Exploration” by Prof. David Southwood, European Space Agency | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2006 August 14 “Celestial Mechanics” by Patrick Browne, NUI Galway | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2006 July 10 “Astronomical Imaging with a CCD Camera” by Kevin Sweeney | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2006 June 12 “Adaptive Optics” by Prof. Chris Dainty, NUI Galway | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2006 May 8 “Archeo- Astronomy” by Paul Griffin | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2006 April 10 “Star Death: Cosmic Pollution and Cosmic Recycling” by Dr. Brian Espey, TCD. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2006 March 13 “The hunt for extrasolar planets in globular clusters” by Dr. Ray Butler, NUI Galway. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2006 February 27 “Solar Eclipses – Past, Present and Future” by David Grennan also powerpoint presentation used during this talk. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2006 February 13 “Newton watches Adromeda with X-ray eyes” By Dr. Ulrich Kolb, Open University, UK. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2006 January 12 “The Big Bang” By Dr. Simon Singh | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2006 January 9 “Challenger and Columbia” by Colm J. Cannon | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2005 December 12 “Cosmology from beginning to end” by Chris Lintott of the BBC’s “Sky at Night” | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 19/20 November ASTRO-EXPO 2005 | |
| “Black Holes – The Irish Connection” by Prof. Mike Redfern NUI Galway. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| “String Theory Cosmology” by Dr. Oisin MacConamha, Imperial College, London. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| “Comets in the Classroom and Other Tales from Texas” by Larry D. Barr, Assistant Planetarium Director. Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas, U.S.A. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| “Selling Science” by Ash McFadden, Inishowen Planetarium, Donegal. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2005 November 14 “The Chinese Space Program” by Brian Harvey, Space Author. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2005 October 10 “Meteorites and the Origin of the Solar System” by Dr Ian Sanders, Astro Geologist, TCD. | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2005 September 12 “Historic Telescopes at Armagh Observatory” by Dr. John Butler of Armagh Observatory | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2005 August 8 ” Our Dynamic Sun” By Dr. Peter T. Gallagher, NASA | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2005 July 11 “Time Travel Illustrated” By Brian Coleman | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2005 June 13 “Astronomy in Ancient Sligo and Meath” by Martin Byrne | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2005 May 9 “Looking inside the Stars” Dr. Simon Jeffery, Armagh Observatory | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2005 Apr 11 Albert Einstein – his life and times by Prof. Petros Florides Trinity College Dublin (Free admission) | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2005 Mar 14 ” Edgeworth Kuiper Belt Objects/Planet X” by Astronomy Ireland’s Eamonn Ansbro of Kingsland Observatory | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2005 Feb 14 “The Cassini-Huygens Mission” By Prof. Carl D. Murray, Astronomy Unit Queen Mary College, London | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2005 Jan 10 “William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865), Ireland’s greatest mathematician.” By Dr. Fiacre O’Cairbre, NUI Maynooth | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2004 Dec 10 Lord Rosse: The Beginning of Deep Space Astronomy in 19th Century Ireland by Dr. Allan Chapman of Oxford University | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2004 November 8 “High resolution imaging of the Planets” by Damian Peach. UK. Director of BAA Saturn section | Call 086 06 46 555 |
| 2004 Oct 11″The search for Novae and Supernovae – from visual to laptop” By Guy M. Hurst UK President British Astronomical Assoc | Call 086 06 46 555 |