Whirlpool Star Party 2010 - Oct 8th to 10th

hi all,

Tony O'Hanlon sent me the details yesterday for the 2010 Whirlpool Star Party being run from October 8th to 10th.

The programme is below and more details about prices/contact details are available at www.birrcastle.com/events-exhibitions-birr-castle-ireland.php

Hope to see you there!

John

Saturday 9th Oct.
10.00hrs Opening of WSP at Birr 2010 weekend, 7th Earl of Rosse.
10.15hrs The role of Supernovae in Modern Cosmology, Tom Boles
11.30hrs Black Holes, Black Magic and Interstellar Travel, Prof John Brown

Break for lunch and castle activities

16.15hrs Robotic Telescope Farms, a better use of smaller apertures, Dr Niall Smith
17.30hrs Solar Storms and Space Weather, Dr Lyndsay Fletcher
20.45hrs The Rosse Observatory, Dr Peter Gallagher


Sunday 10th Oct
10.00hrs VERITAS, Dr John Quinn
11.15hrs Earth in Space, Jerry Stone

Break for lunch

14.00hrs Title TBA, Leo Enright

Sounds like a great weekend, bit like the old days, superb speakers there too, €40 sounds like
very good value for money, will be heading to Birr, who else is going?

Ronan Newman

PS I doubt the

booom boooom booom disco music till 3 in the morning

will keep me from going

hi Ronan,

I'll be there ... will drop you a line in the next couple of days.

John

Here is the milion dollar question:

Does the famous telescope finaly WORK?

Jouke

Hope to be there for the Saturday. Will be travelling over and back on the same day.
Big gap between the 3rd and 4th talks though. Perhaps this would be a good slot for the IFAS AGM?

Hopefully Birr Castle will have the Space Odyssey 2010 Exhibition available to those who go on the Saturday.

Michael.

astroguy wrote:

Here is the milion dollar question:
Does the famous telescope finaly WORK?
Jouke

Was there last week, and the answer is no.