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From: TerryMoselaol.com Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 18:53:31 EST Subject: IAA Xmas/New Year Party; Connaught Star Party Hi all, 1. Don't forget: The IAA's Xmas / New Year Party + Film. Saturday 7 January, 7.30 p.m. Tudor Private Cinema, Comber, Co Down. Film: "War of the Worlds". Same prices as last year! Price: Adults £10; family: (2 adults + 2 children) £25; children £5. Cut off date for booking: 31 December, money must be with treasurer John Hall on or before that date. George Brannan will be running the quiz; super & various prizes will be awarded. The price includes the film, and lots of lovely seasonal eats, plus a selection of hot & cold drinks of varying strength! Best value anywhere! Directions to the Tudor Cinema will be given later. Send a cheque, payable to the IAA, for the required amount to John Hall, 3 Vaddegan Avenue, Newtownabbey, Co Antrim, BT36 7SP. 2. CONNAUGHT STAR PARTY: Ronan Newman sent me the following information, although I have added some details & comments, and abbreviated slightly in places: Galway Astronomy Club host their 3rd Connacht Starparty on Saturday January 28th 2006. As for the two previous years, entry fee is still only €20. Venue: Westwood Hotel, Newcastle, Galway City. PROGRAMME: 1. Dr Mary Brück: "Irish wives in two famous Astronomical Parterships" Mary Brück was born in Co. Meath, and is a Physics graduate of University College Dublin. She obtained her PhD at Edinburgh in the field of solar spectroscopy, after which she was appointed as an astronomer at Dunsink Observatory where her main research interests focused on photographic measurements of the colours and brightness of stars.She then moved to Edinburgh University gaining her doctorate for research in "Studies of H-Alpha line profiles in prominences" . In 1957 she encouraged her husband, the late Professor Hermann Brück, to apply for the post of Astronomer Royal for Scotland. He held this post until his retirement in 1975. The Brücks were the last family of astronomers to live in the official residence at the Royal Observatory.Her most recent Book is entitled: "Agnes Mary Clerke & the Rise of Astrophysics" Agnes Clerke, a woman historian of astronomy of the last half of the 19th century, details a significant period in the rise of modern astrophysics with the development of larger and better telescopes, the use of photography in the mapping of the skies, and the invention of the spectroheliograph. Working primarily from archival sources, in this captivating biography Dr Mary Brück describes the life and work of an erudite but unassuming woman. The story chronicles the development of astronomy in the last decades of pre-Einstein science, introducing many of the great figures of that age, their achievements and rivalries. She also explores, for example, Clerke's friendship with William and Margaret Huggins, and her prolific correspondence with eminent astronomers of the age such as David Gill of Cape and George Ellery Hale of Mount Palomar. 2. Leo Enright: "Mars 3-D" Ever wondered what it would be like to walk on the surface of Mars? Find out during this unique presentation by well-known broadcaster on astronomy and space, Leo Enright, with a new illustrated lecture presented entirely in 3-D. 3. Dr Paul Roche: "21st Century Robotic Telescopes" Dr. Paul Roche is Director of the Faulkes Telescope Project, and UK National Schools' Astronomer. Based at Cardiff University he was Lecturer in Astronomy at Sussex University, Head of Education at the UK National Space Centre, and presented the BBC2 monthly astronomy/space programme "Final Frontier", and more recently the BBC "All Night Star Party" and "Stardate: Venus Transit" shows. 4. Dr Sean O'Donnell: "William Rowan Hamilton: a reluctant Astronomer" Dr Sean O'Donnell is a Science graduate from Galway and Edinburgh universities who for many years contributed a weekly Science column in the Irish Press and articles on famous Irish scientists and astronomers. His books include "William Rowan Hamilton - a Portrait of a Prodigy". PLUS: There will be a first CSP '06 Dinner in the evening from the hotel's extensive menu (optional extra), & Table Quiz afterwards. There will be an imaging workshop during the lunch break. The NUI Galway Observatory will again be open to the attendees by Professor Mike Redfern. [The observatory consists of a 'state of the art' semi-automated Cassegrain with high quality instrumentation, and a 3 meter radio telescope. The telescope is a 40cm (16") from Astrooptik, in a proper dome. The optics are by Lomo (St Petersburg). It is a classical Cassegrain with 3-element field flattener. The mount is a really massive german equatorial, also from Astrooptik. It has an Apogee 1024 x 1024 camera with an E2V thinned, back illuminated chip. What really tickled me was the finder / solar viewing scope custom-mounted on the main telescope: it looked very familiar! Yes, the amazing LIDL 70mm Skylux refractor! Well worth seeing, unless you are prone to envy..... T.M. ] I'll circulate details of accommodation in the area in the New Year. Thanks for all the kind messages of thanks and seasonal greetings that I get from many of you at this time of year. Finally, once again, I wish you all a very Merry Christmas, and a peaceful, happy and clear-skied New Year! Terry Moseley
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