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From: TerryMoselaol.com Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:49:09 EST Subject: Lectures, TV, Mercury Hi all, 1. LECTURE: The next IAA public lecture will be by Robert Hill of Armagh Planetarium, well known throughout these Isles and further afield as a tireless and enthusiastic ambassador for public outreach in astronomy, space exploration and research, and of course promoting and encouraging the use of the Faulkes Telescope by schools and amateur astronomers. He will give an update on the major developments at Armagh Planetarium, and the latest on using the Faulkes 2m Telescope. It will be on Wed 22 February, 7.30 p.m., Lecture Room 5, Stranmillis College, Belfast. Admission is free, and all are welcome. 2. INAUGURAL PUBLIC LECTURE: Professor Alan Fitzsimmons will give his inaugural professorial public lecture as follows: "Asteroids and Comets: Worlds of Fire and Ice", Thursday 23 February, 5 p.m., Larmor Lecture Theatre, Physics Building, Queen's University, Belfast. Admission free. 3. BBC4 TV, Mon 21 Feb., 19.05, BBC Four: The first in a series of Sky at Night programmes covering atmospheric activity, i.e. the weather on Earth and in space, and on planets elsewhere in the solar system. 4. MERCURY: The 'mini evening star', is now very well placed for observation. Start looking from about 35-40 minutes after local sunset. On Tuesday 21 Feb. at about 6.30 p.m. it will be magnitude -0.8, which is brighter than any star except Sirius, and just South of West, and about 8 degrees above the horizon, as seen from Belfast & Dublin. If you are much further W, wait about 10 minutes for the same circumstances to apply. To locate it, follow the line from Alpha Persei through Gamma Andromedae (the nearest one to Perseus in the line of 3) down to the horizon. Or find Rigel in Orion, and then turn exactly 90 degrees to your right, and look about 1/3 as high above the horizon as Rigel. Next night it will be in approximately the same position, but over the next few evenings it will move slightly higher, and slightly further to the left, of those directions. Binoculars will help you find it; once located it should just be visible to the unaided eye. Clear Skies, Terry Moseley
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