IAA Display at Belfast Central Library: Saturday 12th October
Submitted by iaaadmin on Sat, 2013-10-12 11:535th October - Astronomy Day at Carrickfergus
Submitted by iaaadmin on Sat, 2013-10-05 13:39Lecture 2nd October - Dr Paul Dawson, DIAS
Submitted by iaaadmin on Wed, 2013-10-02 14:04"Star Chef: Cooking with the Stars "
TV schedules are full of cookery programmes. But of course, all the ultimate cooking, of the elements in food and everything else, was done either in the Big Bang or in the nuclear furnaces in the stars. And if you use an iron frying pan, the iron in it originated in a supernova explosion.
Society for Popular Astronomy to visit Northern Ireland - 21st/22nd September
Submitted by iaaadmin on Sat, 2013-09-21 07:30As part of their 60th Anniversary celebrations, the Society for Popular Astronomy will visit Belfast and Armagh. This invitation from Prof Alan Fitzsimmons...
On behalf of Queen's University Belfast, Armagh Observatory and the Society for Popular Astronomy, we would like to invite all amateur astronomers to an all-day meeting held in honour of the SPA's 60th anniversary.
IAA Opening Lecture, 18th September. Prof Colin Cunningham.
Submitted by iaaadmin on Wed, 2013-09-18 07:20"Mega Telescopes: how and why?" The European Southern Observatory will soon blast off the top of a mountain in the Atacama desert to start construction of a telescope five times bigger than any existing today. This telescope is known as the European Extremely Large Telescope, or E-ELT. The primary mirror will be made from 798 mirrors and will be 39m in diameter and be controlled to nanometre accuracy. In this lecture Prof Cunningham will describe the engineering challenges of this giant telescope and give a preview of some of the exciting astronomical discoveries that may result, from the first galaxies to Earthlike planets.