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Astronomy
Ireland tries to make all of its events a national affair as the majority
of our members live outside Dublin - something we cherish.
So all lectures in Dublin are made available on DVD for everyone in
Ireland (you can "BOOK TICKETS" or "ORDER DVD" if you
can't get to Dublin).
Similarly the 'Watches' we are famous for running are held in several
events around Ireland - if you have a telescope and want to set it up in
your area in association with one of our Watches please email our
Director director@astronomy.ie
Check back on this page regularly for updates.
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| January 2008 |
| Jan 8-12 |
BT Young Scientist &
Technology Exhibition |
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Venue: RDS Dublin
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| Jan 14 |
New Year Lecture |
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Title: "A new paradigm for the early
Solar System" - evidence from meteorites by Dr. Ian
Sanders, Geology Dept. Trinity College Dublin.
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| Jan 30 |
Our ever Popular Evening Classes start
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Venues: Trinity College
Dublin, Athlone IT and Jury's Hotel, Western Road, Cork.
Starting in the above venues on Wednesday 30
January and continuing every Wednesday
for 8 weeks from 7:30 to 9:30 each night. Book early as
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| February 2008 |
| Feb 11 |
Public Lecture |
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Title: LISA - Astronomy by measuring picometer
movements over
gigameter baselines
by Dr. Harry Ward,
Institute for Gravitational Research, University of Glasgow,
Scotland.
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| March 2008 |
| Mar 10 |
Public Lecture |
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"Shooting the
Eclipse with Patrick Moore"
by Carl O'Beirnes and David Grennan.
BOOK
TICKETS
ORDER DVD
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| March 2008 |
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| Mar 12 |
Moon
Watches |
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Public Moon Watches
will be held in various locations all over Ireland including
Dublin, Carlow, Tipperary, Louth, Clare more......
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| *Monday Mar 31 |
Public Lecture
*NB date/venue change Monday 31st March in Hamilton Bldg,
Trinity College. |
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"Adventures
with the Hubble Space Telescope"
by Lars Lindberg Christensen,
ESA/Hubble Munich Germany.
In association with the
Irish Times
Lars is very much the public face of ESA and the Hubble Space
Telescope. He is also Press Officer for the IAU
(International Astronomical Union) MORE
BOOK
TICKETS
ORDER DVD
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| April 2008 |
| Apr 14 |
Public Lecture |
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"CERN -
searching for Dark Matter and Mini Black Holes"
by Dr. Brian Cox, University of
Manchester and CERN, Geneva.
BBC-
Horizon
program with Brian
Cox - a keyboard player with pop sensation with
D-ream in the 1990's now one of the world's top scientists
working in CERN Geneva >>>>
BOOK
TICKETS
ORDER DVD
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| Apr 15 |
Saturn Watches |
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Astronomy Ireland is holding Saturn
Watches all over Ireland tonight more....
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| May 2008 |
| May 12 |
Public Lecture |
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"Astronomy in
Ireland"
by Robert Hill of the Northern
Ireland Space Office.
Robert
Hill is one of Ireland's foremost Astronomy and Space
communicators, based in the Nothern Ireland Space Office MORE
BOOK
TICKETS
ORDER DVD
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| June 2008 |
| Jun 9th |
Public Lecture |
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"Direct Dark Matter Searches"
by Professor Tim Sumner,
Astrophysics Group, Imperial College London.
BOOK
TICKETS
ORDER DVD
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| July 2008 |
| Jul 14 |
Public Lecture Dublin |
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To promote their
New Book
"From Babylon to the Big Bang - a History of Astronomy"
by best selling authors and TV
Producers
Heather
Couper and Nigel Henbest.
Heather
Couper who was awarded a CBE in 2007 along with Nigel Henbest
are two internationally renowned popular science authors and
media personalities. Heather will present 'Cosmic Quest'
BBC 4 30 part series in Summer 2008 MORE
BOOK
TICKETS
ORDER DVD
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| Jul 15 |
Public Lecture Cork |
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To promote their
New Book
"From Babylon to the Big Bang - a History of Astronomy"
by best selling authors and TV
Producers
Heather
Couper and Nigel Henbest.
Heather
Couper who was awarded a CBE in 2007 along with Nigel Henbest
are two internationally renowned popular science authors and
media personalities. Heather will present 'Cosmic Quest'
BBC 4 30 part series in Summer 2008 MORE
BOOK
TICKETS
ORDER DVD
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| Jul 23
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Private screening for AI members
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Astronomy
Ireland
in Association with Walt Disney Studio Motion Pictures (
Ireland
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An Exclusive Private Screening of Wall-E
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| August 2008 |
| Aug 11 |
Public Lecture |
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'The Cosmological Distance Ladder - the key to understanding
the universe'
by Professor Michael Rowan Robinson, President of the Royal
Astronomical Society, Imperial College London,
UK.
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| Aug 30 |
Star-B-Q |
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Star-B-Q - Ireland's biggest annual star party - an event not to be missed
- fun food and astronomy. More details here....
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| September 2008 |
| Sept 8th |
Public Lecture |
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"Light
Pollution in Ireland"
by Albert White of the Irish Light
Pollution Awareness Campaign.
Albert
is a tireless campaigner for keeping our skies dark. (ILPAC)
the organisation he founded in 2003 is part of The
International Dark Sky Organisation
BOOK
TICKETS
ORDER DVD
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| October 2008 |
| Oct 9th |
Popular Evening Classes |
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Venues: Trinity College
Dublin, Cork, Athlone and other venues TBA
Starting on Thursday Oct 9th and continuing every Thursday for 8 weeks from 7:30 to 9:30 each night. The
classes go from strength to strength.
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| Oct 13 |
The Colm
J.Cannon Memorial Lecture |
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"Looking for a
Pulse, the search for Radio Emission from Extrasolar Planets"
by Greg Hallinan, Centre for
Astronomy, NUI Galway.
The
Search goes on. Several hundred extrasolar planets have
sofar been discovered some of those posisibly 'life bearing'.
BOOK
TICKETS
ORDER DVD
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| November 2008 |
| Nov 10 |
Public Lecture
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"Smoking Stars"
by Dr. Simon Jeffery, Research
Scientist, Armagh Observatory.
BOOK
TICKETS
ORDER DVD
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| Nov 8th |
Astro-Expo 2008 - in the Science
Gallery, Trinity College |
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The biggest Astronomy and Space
exhibition on this island. This year the event is centred
around the search for extrasolar planets. Other exhibits will
include planetaria, meteorites, imaging
displays, telescopes, Astronomy Degree courses and a full
compliment of lectures and activities. Definitely not to
be missed!!!!! |
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| December 2008 |
| Dec 8th |
Christmas Lecture
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| Dec 21st |
Winter Solstice
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Winter Solstice 2008
Astronomy Ireland ran a Solstice Watch in Sean Moore Park where we observed the Sun rise in alignment with the James Joyce Memorial and another standing stone 100m away. More here... Read the report here.
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| Dec 31st |
Venus-Moon Conjunction
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Venus and the Moon in Conjunction on New Year's Eve
On New Year's Eve the Moon hung in the sky next to the brilliantly bright planet Venus. Our phone lines were jammed with people calling us from all over Ireland asking about this amazing spectacle in the heavens. Read more here...
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