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run in association with the Discover Science and Engineering project,
was a terrific success with thousands of people attending the event from
all corners of Ireland and the UK.
The deputy Lord Mayor of Dublin Cllr. Andrew Montague opened the
event. The European Space Agency sent astronaut Gerhard Thiele specially
to ireland to open the event and give a lecture on Space Travel.
He also talked to people afterwards, signed photographs and gave
interviews. Space Encounters provided the Mobile Planetarium at the
exhibition. Our popular Astronomy Ireland dinner on the Saturday
in the nearby Regency Hotel proved a great success with 40 people
including guests Astronaut Gerhard Thiele and his wife, who is an
equally charming person, Speakers - Oisin MacConamhna, Prof. Mike
Edmunds (Isaac Newton), Dr. Andy Newsam among others. A late
night was had and new frienships were made. Gerhard Thiele
returned to Cologne having developed a fondness for Guinness.
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Astronaut Gerhard Thiele Being interviewed by TV3 News |
List of Exhibitors
- European Space Agency (Paris)
- Astronomy Ireland
- Astronomy and Space Shop
- Astrosoc - DCU Astronomy Club
- San Pitz Studio - Tony
Oakey (Kilkenny)
- Armagh Planetarium
- Dunsink Observatory
- Brownstown Observatory (Meath)
- DCU Astrophysics
- Irish Raelian Movement
- Irish Skeptics Society
- Kingsland Observatory (Roscommon)
- Liverpool John Moores University, Astrophysics
Research Unit
- Marsh's Library
- Natures Treasures (Meteorites etc)
- NUI Galway Astrophysics
- NUI Maynooth Astrophysics
- Planetary Society
- TCD Astrophysics
- Space Encounters (Mobile Planetarium)
- Shooting Stars Ceilings
List of Lectures and Lecturers
Saturday 13 November
- 1:00pm Space Travel - Gerhard Thiele ESA
Astronaut and Shuttle Veteran
- 3:00pm The Cosmological Constant by Oisin MacConamhna - Stephen
Hawking's Irish Student.
- 5:00pm Spaceship One - Paul Reilly. Eyewitness account
with pictures of the launch of the first commercial tourist
spacecraft.
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Oisin MacConamhna's excellent lecture on Cosmology |
Sunday 14 November
- 1:00pm Astronomy with Robotic Telescopes
by Dr. Andrew Newsam, Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John
Moores University
- 3:00pm Isaac Newton Remembers....... - By Isaac Newton (aka
Prof. Mike Edmunds)
- 5:00pm Ireland's Search for Extrasolar Planets - SuperWASP by
Damian Christian. The imaging and detection of planets around
other stars
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Isaac Newton (Prof. Mike Edmunds) in full flight |
Our thanks to the people from Discover Science and Engineering who
helped make Astro- Expo 2004 the success that it was and hope to see
you all at Astro-Expo 2005.
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