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May 2019
Our day trip this year is to Birr Castle. We will be taking in the science museum, Leviathan telescope and the
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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing on July 20th the Galway Astronomy Club will be hosting a special
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Talk: The first direct experimental test of Einstein's theory of general relativity involved a pair of expeditions to measure the bending of
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On the 20th July 1969 a human being stepped on to the surface of the Moon for the first time ever, marking
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Talk: ‘Walking (slowly) towards space’ In 2014 Niamh Shaw announced to the world that she wanted to go to space; and then
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Talk: "Stellar winds are blowing bubbles" A stellar wind bubble is a cavity light years across filled with hot gas blown in
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Talk: “New uses for VERITAS: Asteroids and Aliens" VERIRAS (Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System) is a ground-based gamma-ray instrument operating at
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Talk: “Making the Extraordinary Possible for Amateur Astronomers" How a background in meteorology, optics, astronomy and instrumentation has led to new understandings
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Talk: 'Longitude - Astronomers v Clockmakers' This talk will take you back to the fascinating story of the 18th century longitude problem
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