Hi all,
RADIO AND TV
1. Mon, 17 Oct, 7.00pm, BBC4 TV: Journeys from the Centre of the Earth - the influence of geology on art (3/6).
2. Tue, 18 Oct, 7.00pm, RTE2 TV: Two Extreme: End Day - new series on catastrophies.
8.30pm, BBC2 TV: What the Ancients Did for Us - Woodhenge and Stonehenge.
3. Tues 18 Oct, BBC2: First episosode of a new comedy drama "Supernova" about a British scientist who leaves London for a job in an observatory in the Australian Outback (the AAT?). Probably not much science, but maybe worth a look for the views, and to spot any scientific boobs!? [ albertw : I think its funny, but the science is dire and best ignored!]
4. Thu, 20 Oct, 9.00pm, BBC2 TV: Horizon - Titan, Saturn's largest moon, as seen from the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft.
LECTURES
5. Tue, 18 Oct, 6.30pm, DIT, Aungier St, DUBLIN: Prof. Simon Conway Morris (Cambridge) on 'What evolution tells us about extra-terrestrials'. Admission free; to register phone 01-4024583 or email peter.kavanagh@dit.ie
6. Wed, 19 Oct, 7.30 p.m. Lecture Room 5, Stranmillis College, Stranmillis Road, BELFAST. Irish Astronomical Association, Public Lecture, by Dr Ian Sanders (TCD) "Evidence in meteorites for the origin of the Solar System." Admission Free, including light refreshments.
EXHIBITIONS
7. From 28 Sep. for four months at NMI, Collins Barracks, DUBLIN: "LIGHT & TIME" - an exhibition to celebrate Hamilton Year. The highlight is a laser demonstration of Conical Refraction, predicted by Hamilton in 1832. See
www.museum.ie
8. Until 28 Oct. at Farmleigh, Phoenix Park, Dublin: "MAKING TIME" - an art exhibition marking Einstein Year. Thu-Sun, 10.00am-4.00pm. Admission free. Catalogue as PDF at
www.farmleigh.ie
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9 MARS is now approaching its best, almost as close now as it will be on 29 October - and that won't be bettered for another 18 years! A brilliant ruddy beacon, it's getting high in the SE sky by local midnight, even allowing for BST. If you have a telescope, do have look on the next good night!
The Irish Astronomical Association will be holding public Mars-Watch observing sessions, weather permitting, at the end of October & early November, probably at the car park at the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum, Cultra, Co. Down. More details later.
Clear Skies,
Terry Moseley
  