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Lecture DVDs for Sale

Lectures, suitable for members, beginners and the general public, are held on the second Monday of every month in Trinity College Dublin. Of course, it is not always possible for people to travel to the lectures and attend them in person. We are pleased to be able to offer these lectures to our valued members and everyone who shares our interest in astronomy and space on DVD.

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8th February "Living with a star" By Dr. Chris Davis, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK order online
"400 Years of the Telescope" by Professor Allan Chapman, Wadham College, Oxford. order online
"The European Southern Observatory" by Professor Tim De Zeeuw of ESO. order online
 
Nov. 14 Astro-Expo 2009 (€10 inc.P&P each or all 3 Astro-Expo lectures for €20 inc P&P)
"Imaging the night sky" by Kevin Sweeney order online
"Mars - a Cosmic Stepping Stone" by Kevin Nolan order online
"Meteorites" by Dr Ian Sanders, TCD. order online
 
November 9 "The Big Bang" By Dr. Cormac O'Raifeartaigh, Physics Department, Waterford Institute of Technology. order online
October 9th "The View From Saturn: Images From The Cassini Spacecraft" By Professor Carl Murray of Queen Mary University of London order online
September 14th "Searching for exoplanets"
By Dr. Chris Watson, Astrophysics Research Ctr, QUB HERE
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August 10th "Mad about Meteorites" By Matthew Parkes, of the National Museum of Ireland. order online
23 July "Moonshot" By BBC journalist Dan Parry order online
13 July "Dark matter and the smallest galaxies, elementary particle physics to the Universe" By Professor Gerry Gilmore Cambridge University, UK.  order online
15 June "Hanny's Voorwerp" by Hanny Van Arkel Sorry Not Recorded
8th June "Asteroids - recent Irish discoveries" by David Grennan and Dave McDonald order online
11th May Public Lecture "Shamrock and Space" by NASA Scientist Anthony Heijenga. order online
20th April Public Lecture "From the Moon to Matroshka" 
by Professor Denis O'Sullivan , School of Cosmic Physics,
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1st April "Evening Class Telescope Lecture" by David Moore, Chairman of Astronomy Ireland. order online
16 March "The European Space Agency" By Professor David Southwood, Director of ESA. order online
9 February 2009 "Cosmic Casualty: Farce and Fortuity in the Exploration of Space" By Doug Ellison of unmannedspaceflight.com order online
12 January 2009  "Touchdown on Titan" by Professor John Zarnecki of the Open University order online
8th December "Living in the Sun's Atmosphere" By Dr. Lucie Green, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, U.K.  order online
10th November "Smoking Stars" by Dr. Simon Jeffery of Armagh Observatory. order online
 
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 order online
'Celtic Rock - hunting for Asteroids' by Dave McDonald.  Dave recently discovered the second asteroid ever from Ireland (2008 TM9). order online
'The Coming Space Power of China' by renowned space author and A&S contributor Brian Harvey.  order online
 
13th Oct "Search for Radio Emission from Extrasolar Planets"  by Gregg Hallinan NUI Galway. order online
8th September "Light Pollution in Ireland" by Albert White of ILPAC. order online
11th August "The Cosmological Distance Ladder - our key to understanding the Universe" by Professor Michael Rowan Robinson. order online
14th July "From Babylon to the Big Bang - History of Astronomy" by Couper & Henbest order online
9th June "Direct Dark Matter Searches" by Professor Tim Sumner, Astrophysics Group, Imperial College London.    order online
12 May Public Lecture "Astronomy in Ireland" by Robert Hill of the Northern Ireland Space Office in Armagh Planetarium. order online
14 April "CERN - searching for Dark Matter and mini Black Holes" by Dr. Brian Cox, CERN, Geneva order online
31 March "Adventures with the Hubble Space Telescope" by Lars Lindberg Christensen, Head of Communications ESA/Hubble order online
10 March "Shooting the Planets and Eclipse with Patrick Moore" by Carl O'Beirnes and David Grennan order online
11 February "LISA - Gravitational Wave Mission"
By Dr Harry Ward, Institute for Gravitational Research, University of Glasgow, Scotland.
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14 January "Meteorites - New Evidence Uncovered"
By Dr. Ian Sanders, Trinity College Dublin.
order online
 
                            Astro-Expo 2007
" The Sun" by Dr. Miruna Popescu, Armagh Observatory order online
"Astrophotography" by Carl O'Beirnes, Astronomy Shop. order online
"Light Pollution" by Albert White of ILPAC, order online
 
10 December "Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence"
By Dr. Tim O'Brien, Jodrell Bank Observatory, UK.
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November "The Day the Sun attacked the Earth" by Stuart Clark. order online
12 November "Near Earth Asteroids"
By Dr. Neil McBride, Open University, UK.
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8 October "Extrasolar Planets and the hunt for life in the Universe" By Dr. Ian Stevens, University of Bermingham, Uk. order online
10 September "Supernovae - hunting exploding stars" 
By Professor Stephen Smartt, Queens University, Belfast
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13 August "Building a Universe - Byte by Byte" by Professor Brad Gibson, Theoretical Astrophysics, University Central Lancashire, UK. order online
09 July "The Birth of Stars and Planets" by Dr Emma Whelan of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) order online
11 June "The Heliosphere - Living inside the Sun's Atmosphere" by Dr. Peter Gallagher, NASA/TCD. order online
14 May "Digital Deep Sky Astrophotography" by Dr. Dave Grennan and Jed Glover order online
16 April "Black holes: observation, theory and geometry " " by Dr. Oisin Mac Conamhna order online
12 March "Bang - A Complete History of the Universe" by Dr. Chris Lintott of BBC's Sky at Night program order online
12 February "The Universe a Biography" By Dr. John Gribben order online
8 January 2007 "Black Holes and White Rabbits" by Prof. John Brown. order online
11 December "Women in Astronomy" by Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Oxford. order online
 
2 December Astro-Expo 2006
"Future far-infrared astronomy projects and prospects" by Dr. Neil Trappe of NUI Maynooth order online
"Island of the Setting Sun - In Search of Ireland's Ancient Astronomers" by Anthony Murphy, Mythical Ireland. order online
"European Southern Observatory" by Claus Madsen of ESO (Germany). order online
"Reaching out to ET" by Dr Martin Griffiths of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, Glamorgan University. order online
 
13 November "Blackrock Castle Robotic Observatory" By Dr. Niall Smith, CIT. order online
9 October "NASA’s Vision for Space Exploration/ ESA's Aurora Program" 
By Kevin Nolan of the Planetary Society
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11 September "Current European Space Exploration" by Prof. David Southwood, European Space Agency order online
14 August "Celestial Mechanics" by Patrick Browne, NUI Galway order online
10 July 2006 "Astronomical Imaging with a CCD Camera" by Kevin Sweeney order online
12 June 2006 "Adaptive Optics"  by Prof. Chris Dainty, NUI Galway order online
8 May 2006 "Archeo- Astronomy"  by Paul Griffin order online
10 April 2006 "Star Death: Cosmic Pollution and Cosmic Recycling"  by Dr. Brian Espey, TCD. order online
13 March 2006 "The hunt for extrasolar planets in globular clusters" by Dr. Ray Butler, NUI Galway. order online
27 February 2006 "Solar Eclipses - Past, Present and Future" by David Grennan also powerpoint presentation used during this talk. order online
13 February 2006 "Newton watches Adromeda with X-ray eyes" By Dr. Ulrich Kolb, Open University, UK. order online
12 January 2006 "The Big Bang" By Dr. Simon Singh Not recorded due to copyright
9 January 2006 "Challenger and Columbia" by Colm J. Cannon order online
 
12 December 2005 "Cosmology from beginning to end" by Chris Lintott of the BBC's "Sky at Night" Not Recorded due to technical difficulties
 
      19/20 November ASTRO-EXPO 2005
"Black Holes - The Irish Connection"  by Prof. Mike Redfern NUI Galway. order online
"String Theory Cosmology"  by Dr. Oisin MacConamha, Imperial College, London. order online
"Comets in the Classroom and Other Tales from Texas" by Larry D. Barr, Assistant Planetarium Director. Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas, U.S.A. order online
"Selling Science" by Ash McFadden, Inishowen Planetarium, Donegal. order online
 
14 November 2005 "The Chinese Space Program" by Brian Harvey, Space Author. order online
10 October 2005 "Meteorites and the Origin of the Solar System" by Dr Ian Sanders, Astro Geologist, TCD. order online
12 September 2005 "Historic Telescopes at Armagh Observatory" by Dr. John Butler of Armagh Observatory order online
08 August 2005 " Our Dynamic Sun" By Dr. Peter T. Gallagher, NASA order online
11 July 2005 "Time Travel Illustrated" By Brian Coleman order online
13 June 2005 Astronomy in Ancient Sligo and Meath” 
by Martin Byrne
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9 May 2005 "Looking inside the Stars"
Dr. Simon Jeffery, Armagh Observatory
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11 Apr 2005 “Albert Einstein - his life and times by Prof. Petros Florides Trinity College Dublin (Free admission) order online
14 Mar 2005 " Edgeworth Kuiper Belt Objects/Planet X"
by Astronomy Ireland's Eamonn Ansbro of Kingsland Observatory
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14 Feb 2005 "The Cassini-Huygens Mission"
By Prof. Carl D. Murray, Astronomy Unit Queen Mary College, London
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10 Jan 2005 "William Rowan Hamilton (1805--1865),  Ireland's greatest mathematician."
By Dr. Fiacre O'Cairbre, NUI Maynooth
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10 Dec 2004 Lord Rosse: The Beginning of Deep Space Astronomy in 19th Century Ireland by Dr. Allan Chapman of Oxford University order online
8 November 2004 "High resolution imaging of the Planets"
by Damian Peach. UK. Director of BAA Saturn section
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11 Oct 2004 "The search for Novae and Supernovae - from visual to laptop"
By Guy M. Hurst UK President British Astronomical Assoc
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NB: Lecture recordings can vary in quality due to lecture conditions, background noise, clarity of speaker etc.  Every effort is made to bring you top quality recordings given the above variables.

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