Hi
For any new IFAS members in the West of Ireland, Galway Astronomy Club have put together a great line up of talks for the coming Autumn 2013 - Spring 2014 season, some of these talks will possibly end up doing the rounds nationwide but why not see them in Galway first.
September 9th: “
Mountaineering on Mars at Gale Crater with the Curiosity Rover”
Leo Enright, Renowned RTE Space Correspondent
October 7th: "
Tree rings hint to past catastrophic encounters with Comets”
Prof Mike Baille, Queens University Belfast
Professor Emeritus of Palaeoecology at Queen's University of Belfast, in Northern Ireland. Baillie is a leading expert in dendrochronology
November 4th: “
The active Sun: The beating heart of our Solar System”
Daniel Ryan, Trinity College Dublin & NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland, USA
See
December 2nd: “
Surveying for Edgeworth Kuiper Belt Objects from Ireland"
Eamonn Ansbro, Kingsland Observatory
See one of his talks
www.arm.ac.uk/lindsay/presentations/Ansbro/Ansbro.html
January 6th: “
Using Celestial Mechanics for Solar sails & Satellites"
Patrick Browne, Dept of Mathematics, NUI Galway
February 1st
Galway Astronomy Festival 2014: Ireland's biggest Spring time Starparty
February 10th: “
Quasars & Beyond: Looking Back in Time”
Seanie Morris, Midlands Astronomy Club
March 3rd: “
We can but should we? Ethical limits to Space exploration”
Peter Household, Cork Astronomy club
April 7th: “
Infrared Astronomy: Studying the Cold Cosmos”
Dr Neal Trappe, NUI Maynooth
May 12th: “
On the Shoulder of Giants: The history of mankind’s quest to understand the Universe”
Brian McGabhann, Galway Astronomy Club
June 9th: "16th AGM & members night" & film "Space: The Irish Frontier"
“Back to Basics” Workshops program, Room 220, Physics Dept, NUI Galway
September 16th:"
Observing the ISS & other man made satellites" Ronan Newman, Galway AC
October 21st: "
Building & Equipping a back-garden observatory" Markus Woerner, Galway AC
November 18th: "
Astrophotography"Dr Ray Butler, NUI Galway
December 9th: “
Telescopes basics: Types, designs, and operation” Brian McGabhann, Galway AC
2014 (Abbreviations, AC: Astronomy Club)
January 20th: "
Software and apps for astronomy"
Ronan Newman, Galway AC
February 17th: “
Reading Star Maps and learning the constellations” Jan Kotek, Galway AC
March 24th: "
Building a DIY dobsonian telescope” Trevor Durity, Galway AC
April 14th: "
Celestial Navigation - appreciation of an ancient technique" Michael Conneely, Galway AC
Best wishes
Ronan Newman
Chairman
Galway Astronomy Club
IFAS Irish Astronomer of the Year 2012
