Next meeting: 8pm on Monday November 27th 2006 at our new venue: The Claddagh Hall, Nimmo's Pier, Claddagh Quay, Galway.
Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Devaney (NUI Galway) with a talk entitled "The Challenge of Very Large & Extremely Large Telescopes"
Dr. Devaney obtained his PhD at UCG/NUIG in 1989, became Research Associate at the Royal Greenwich Observatory from 1989 to1991 and at the Observatoire de Meudon, Paris from 1991 to 1992, Support Astronomer at the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias from 1993 to 1995, and
From 1995 to 2005 he he held the prestigous role as Adaptive Optics manager at the 10.6m GTC telescope Canarias, the largest single mirror in the world. In 2005 he returned to NUIG as a lecturer in Applied Optics.
Admission: Members: €2.00. Non-members: €5.00. Newcomers welcome.
Weather permitting, we shall be doing some observing after the talk. If you have a telescope, please bring it along!
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www.galwayastronomyclub.ie
Ronan Newman
Galway AC
  