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Telescopes, Books and Equipment
September 2023
Star-B-Q 2023
September 9
Book early to avoid disapointment!!
Great food, lectures, stands, telescopes and dark skies.
Public Lecture
Monday September 11
Astrobiology and the search for Extraterrestrial Biosignatures.
By Dr Sean McMahon (University of Edinburgh)
August 2023
Public Lecture
Monday August 14
“The Beginning of Everything“
by Dr. Steve Barrett, Physics Dept. (University of Liverpool)
July 2023
Public Lecture Monday July 10
Searching for Dark Matter
By Professor Dan Tovey (University of Sheffield)
June 2023
MAY 2023
Public Lecture
Monday 8th May
We’re going to Mars -bar the shouting!
By Dr Martin Braddock, FRAS. Working in the field of Space Medicine.
APRIL 2023
Public Lecture
Monday 10th April
“The End of Everything”
by Dr. Steve Barrett, Physics Dept., University of Liverpool.
March 2023
PUBLIC LECTURE To Celebrate Irish Astronomy Week
Monday 20th March *Note Date Change!
“Is the Hubble Constant a Constant”
By Dr. Eoin OColgain, Atlantic Technological University Sligo
February 2023
Monday 13th February
“Last Horizons: The Edge of the Solar System”
By Dr. Steph Merritt, Astrophysics Research Centre QUB.
Wednesday 1st February 2023
Beginners Evening Classes
Ever popular so book earlier so as not to be disappointed!
January 2023
NEW YEAR LECTURE
Monday 9th January
New Eyes on the Universe: The James Webb Telescope
By Dr. Henrik Melin, STFC James Webb Fellow, Leicester University.
December 2022
Christmas Lecture 12th of December
“The Star of Bethlehem”
By Dr. Steve Barrett of Department of Physics University of Liverpool.
A light hearted look at astronomical canditates for the Star of Bethlehem
November 2022
AS PART OF SCIENCE WEEK
November 14th Public Lecture
“The Science of Star Wars”
By Professor Martin Hendry of Glasgow University
A look at what is fiction and what is fact!!
October 2022
Tuesday October 25th
Partial Solar Eclipse
Email your images to us at magazine@astronomy.ie for your chance to be featured in our magazines special eclipse report.
Monday 10th Public Lecture
“Ten ways the Universe tries to kill you”
by Stephen Tonkin, Author and Astronomy Communicator
September 2022
Monday 12th Public Lecture
“The Spaceguard Centre”
by Jay Tate Principal Spaceguard
Examining the threat posed by objects from outer space
August 2022
Nationwide Perseid Watch
All from the comfort of your own home
Night of 12th and into the 13th August
No specialist equipment needed just your eyes.
Monday 18th July Public Lecture *Note date change*
James Webb Space Telescope – First Results Update
By Dr. Patrick Kavanagh, Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies
Celebrate World Asteroid Day FREE LECTURE June 30th
“Near-Earth Asteroids or why Dinosaurs Should Have Learned Physics”
By Dr. Carrie Nugent of Olin College of Engineering, USA