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2012 February 13 'Building and operating robotic spacecraft' By Dr. Leah-Nani S Alconel, Space & Atmospheric Physics Group, Imperial College London
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2012 January 09 'Searching for particles at the LHC, Cern. by Prof. Peter Watkins, University of Bermingham.
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2011 December 12 'Why Pluto isn't a Planet' by Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Oxford University.
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Astro-Expo2011
'Observing explosions on the Sun' By Dave Gradwell.
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'Faster than light-was Einstein wrong' by Dr Cormac O Raifeartaigh.
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2011 November 14 'The Birth and Death of Stars' By Dr. Gareth Murphy, School of Cosmic Physics, DIAS.
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2011 October 10 'Sounds of the Cosmos' by Dr. Lewis Dartnell, UCL/Birkbeck UK
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2011 September 12 'The Role of Supernovae in Modern Cosmology' By Tom Boles, Supernova Hunter
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Star-B-Q Aug 27 " The Universe" by David Moore, Astronomy Ireland
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Star-B-Q Aug 27 "Hunting Supernovae" by David Grennan, Raheny Observatory
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Star-B-Q Aug 27 "Black Holes and How They Work" by Paul Abel, The Sky at Night
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2011 August 8 'The next generation of Exoplanet Surveys', by Dr. Don Pollacco of Queens University Belfast.
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2011 July 11 The Extraordinary Universe; looking at Gamma-rays from Space By Dr. Mark Lang, Head of School of Physics, NUI Galway.
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2011 June 13 "The Sun and Space Weather" by Dr Lyndsay Fletcher, University of Glasgow, UK.
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2011 May 9 "Herschel; the first two years" by Dr Chris North, University of Cardiff.
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2011 April 11 "The LHC machine and recent operation with beams" by Dr. Stephen Myers, Cern, Switzerland.
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2011 March 14 "Amateur Rocketry; an uplifting hobby" by Colin Fitzsimons
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2011 February 14 "Astronomy in Irish pre-history" by Frank Prendergast DIT.
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2011 January 10 "ESA - current and future missions" by Professor David Southwood, European Space Agency.
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2010 December 13 "Does Astronomy Matter" by Dr. Ian Corbett, IAU
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2010 Astro-Expo "The first Irish Supernova" By David Grennan
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2010 Astro-Expo "Cosmology" By Prof. Carlos Frenk
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2010 Astro-Expo " Irish Radio Astronomy" by Dr Peter Gallagher
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2010 November 11 "The Universe" by David Moore, Astronomy Ireland
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2010 November 8 "Pulsars" by Dr Andy Shearer, Centre for Astronomy, NUIG
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2010 October 11 "Astrobiology" By Lewis Dartnell
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2010 September 13 "The Anthikythera Mechanism" By Professor Mike Edmunds, Cardiff University.
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Star-B-Q Sept 04 " The Universe" by David Moore
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Star-B-Q Sept 04 "Secrets of the Stones" by Anthony Murphy
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Star-B-Q Sept. 04 "Moon Hoax" by Dr. Martin Hendry, Glasgow University.
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2010 August 9 Gamma-ray Astronomy: "A New Window on the Extreme Universe" By Dr. John Quinn, School of Physics, University College Dublin
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2010 July 12 "Observations of Saturn's magnetic environment by the Cassini-Huygens mission" By Dr Caitriona Jackman, Imperial College London.
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14th June "Black Holes, The LHC, and The God Particle" by Dr. Cormac O'Raifeartaigh of Waterford IT
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10th May "Studying Winds from Red Giants with HST and FUSE" by Dr. Brian Espey of Trinity College Dublin
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12th April "Mercury -New Insights" by Dr. David Rothery of the Open University, UK.
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8th March "Behold Mars" By Kevin Nolan of the Planetary Society.
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8th February "Living with a star" By Dr. Chris Davis, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
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January 25th 2010 "400 Years of the Telescope" by Professor Allan Chapman, Wadham College, Oxford.
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December 14th "European Southern Observatory" by Professor Tim De Zeeuw, ESO.
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November 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
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"Mars - a Cosmic Stepping Stone" by Kevin Nolan of Planetary Society
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"Meteorites" by Dr. Ian Sanders, TCD.
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November 9th "The Big Bang" By Dr. Cormac O'Raifeartaigh, Physics Department, Waterford Institute of Technology.
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October 9th "The View From Saturn: Images From The Cassini Spacecraft" By Professor Carl Murray of Queen Mary University of London
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September 14th "Searching for exoplanets"
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10 August "Mad about Meteorites" By Matthew Parkes, of the National Museum of Ireland
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23 July "Moonshot" By BBC journalist Dan Parry
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13 July "Dark matter and the smallest galaxies, elementary particle physics to the Universe" By Professor Gerry Gilmore Cambridge University, UK.
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8th June "Asteroids - recent Irish discoveries" by David Grennan and Dave McDonald
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11th May Public Lecture "Shamrock and Space" by NASA Scientist Anthony Heijenga.
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20th April Public Lecture "From the Moon to Matroshka"
by Professor Denis O'Sullivan , School of Cosmic Physics, DIAS.
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1st April "Evening Class Telescope Lecture" by David Moore , Chairman of Astronomy Ireland.
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16 March "The European Space Agency" By Professor David Southwood, Director of ESA.
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9 February 2009 "Cosmic Casualty: Farce and Fortuity in the Exploration of Space" By Doug Ellison of unmannedspaceflight.com
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12 January 2009 "Touchdown on Titan" by Professor John Zarnecki of the Open University
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8th December " Living in the Sun's Atmosphere" By Dr. Lucie Green, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, U.K.
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10th November "Smoking Stars" by Dr. Simon Jeffery of Armagh Observatory.
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Astro-Expo 2008
'The Wrath of Ra' by Dr. James McAteer of NASA and TCD Astrophysics
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'Celtic Rock - hunting for Asteroids' by Dave McDonald.
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'The Coming Space Power of China' by renowned space author and A&S contributor Brian Harvey.
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13th October " Search for Radio Emission from Extrasolar Planets" by Gregg Hallinan NUI Galway.
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8th September "Light Pollution in Ireland" by Albert White of ILPAC.
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11th August "The Cosmological Distance Ladder - the key to understanding the Universe" by Professor Michael Rowan Robinson
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14th July "From Babylon to the Big Bang - History of Astronomy" by Couper & Henbest
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9th June "Direct Dark Matter Searches" by Professor Tim Sumner, Astrophysics Group, Imperial College London.
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12 May Public Lecture "Astronomy in Ireland" by Robert Hill of the Northern Ireland Space Office in Armagh Planetarium .
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14 April "CERN - searching for Dark Matter and mini Black Holes" by Dr. Brian Cox, CERN, Geneva
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31 March "Adventures with the Hubble Space Telescope" by Lars Lindbergh Christensen of ESA/Hubble.
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10 March "Shooting the Planets and Eclipse with Patrick Moore" by Carl O'Beirnes and David Grennan
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"LISA - Gravitational Wave Mission"
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"Meteorites - New Evidence Uncovered" By Dr Ian Sanders TCD.
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Astro-Expo 2007
"The Sun" by Dr. Miruna Popescu of Armagh Observatory
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"Astrophotography" by Carl O'Beirnes of the Astronomy Shop
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"Light Pollution" by Albert White of ILPAC
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10 December "Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence" .
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Nationwide November Lectures "The Day the Sun attacked the Earth" by Stuart Clark
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12 November "Near Earth Asteroids" .
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October "Extrasolar Planets and the hunt for life in the Universe" By Dr. Ian Stevens, University of Bermingham, Uk.
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10 September "Supernovae - hunting exploding stars"
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13 August "Building a Universe - Byte by Byte" by Professor Brad Gibson, Theoretical Astrophysics, University Central Lancashire, UK.
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09 July "The Birth of the Stars and Planets" by Dr Emma Whelan of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS)
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11 June "The Heliosphere - Living Inside the Sun's Atmosphere" Dr Peter Gallagher, NASA/TCD
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14 May "Digital Deep Sky Astrophotography" by Dave Grennan and Jed Glover
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16 April "Black holes: observation, theory and geometry
" by Dr. Oisin Mac Conamhna .
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12 March "BANG - A Complete History of the Universe" by Dr. Chris Lintott.
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12 February "The Universe - An Biography" by Dr. John Gribbin, Sussex University.
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08 January "Black Holes and White Rabbits" by Professor John Brown, Astronomer Royal for Scotland
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11 December "Women in Astronomy" by Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Oxford
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ASTRO-EXPO 2006
"Future far-infrared astronomy projects and prospects" by Dr. Neil Trappe of NUI Maynooth
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"Island of the Setting Sun - In Search of Ireland's Ancient Astronomers" by Anthony Murphy, Mythical Ireland.
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"European Southern Observatory" by Claus Madsen of ESO (Germany).
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"Reaching out to ET" by Dr Martin Griffiths of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, Glamorgan University.
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13 November "Blackrock Castle Robotic Observatory" by Dr. Niall Smith of CIT
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9 October "NASA's Vision for Space Exploration/ ESA's Aurora Program"
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11 September 06 "Current European Space Exploration" by Prof. David Southwood, E.S.A.
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14 August 06 "Celestial Mechanics" by Patrick Browne, UCG.
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10 July 06 "Astronomical Imaging with a CCD Camera, by Kevin Sweeney
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12 June "Adaptive Optics" By Professor Chris Dainty, NUI Galway.
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8 May "Archeo-Astronomy" by Paul Griffin
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10 April "Star Death: Cosmic Pollution and Cosmic Recycling" by Dr. Brian Espey, TCD.
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13 March "The Hunt for Extrasolar Planets in Globular Clusters" by Dr. Ray Butler NUI Galway.
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27 February "Solar Eclipses - Past, Present and Future, by David Grennan
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13 February 2006 "Newton watches Andromeda with X-ray eyes" by Dr. Ulrich Kolb of the Open University, UK.
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9 January 2006 "Challenger and Columbia" by Colm J. Cannon
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19/20 November ASTRO-EXPO 2005
"Black Holes - The Irish Connection" by Prof. Mike Redfern NUI Galway.
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"String Theory Cosmology" by Dr. Oisin MacConamha, Imperial College, London.
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"Comets in the Classroom and Other Tales from Texas" by Larry D. Barr, Assistant Planetarium Director. Tarleton State University, Stephenville,
Texas, U.S.A.
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"Selling Science" by Ash McFadden, Inishowen Planetarium, Donegal.
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November 2005 "The Chinese Space Programme" by Brian Harvey
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October 2005 "Meteorites and the Origin of the Solar System" by Dr. Ian Sanders, Astro Geologist
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September 2005 "Historic Telescopes at Armagh Observatory" by Dr. J. Butler of Armagh Observatory
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August 2005 "Our Dynamic Sun" by Dr. Peter Gallagher, NASA
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July 2005 " Time Travel Illustrated" By Brian Coleman, BC Systems
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June 2005 “ Astronomy in Ancient Sligo and Meath ”
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May 2005 "Looking inside the Stars"
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April 2005 “Albert Einstein - his life and times ” by Prof. Petros Florides Trinity College Dublin
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March 2005 " Edgeworth Kuiper Belt Objects/Planet X" by Astronomy Ireland's Eamonn Ansbro of Kingsland Observatory
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February 2005 "The Cassini-Huygens Mission"
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January 2005 "William Rowan Hamilton (1805--1865), Ireland's greatest mathematician."
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December 2004 "Lord Rosse: The beginning of Deep Space Astronomy in Ireland" By Dr. Allan Chapman Modern History Faculty, Wadham College, Oxford and star of Channel 4 Series "Chariots of the Gods"
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November 2004 " High resolution imaging of the Planets " by Damian Peach . UK. Director of BAA Saturn section
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October 2004 " The search for Novae and Supernovae - from visual to laptop " By Guy M. Hurst UK President British Astronomical Assoc
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