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Upcoming Meetings: Spring/Summer 2012


Our Club meetings are held on the first Monday of every month (at 7.30pm)  from September to June at the Westwood House Hotel  which is located on the western side of the city next to the N59 Galway-Clifden Road.

 Upcoming meetings will also include workshops  to help beginners with their observing skills while public observing nights within  the city area will also become a regular part of our program with club members being informed via text. 


Meetings generally take one of two formats:


  • An invited expert gives a talk/presentation – illustrated and/or animated – of an aspect of astronomy. Subjects are chosen because they're topical, practical – or just interesting to astronomers. Each year we arrange a balanced mix, covering a wide range of topics and levels.
  • A 'members evening', in which members present short talks on their own interests, projects, and topics of general interest.

Very occasionally, invited speakers have to cancel, (usually at extremely short notice), and at these times the meeting often takes the form of an astronomy DVD, or a hands-on Workshop.

Typically, the main talk of the evening lasts for an hour or so, after which we have a 5-10 minutesof audience questions.  Following this, the remaining time usually features Society news and business, (such as the latest reports from Observing Evening Reports, etc), and a short 'What's on?' feature describing events happening later in the current month. And if the weather is suitable we often set up telescopes outside the hotel to gaze up at some of the brighter objects of the night sky.


                                                                                                            

 

   January 9th 2012: Public Lecture

  

  "The Birth of Stars"

  By Dr. Ray Butler, Centre for Astronomy NUI Galway

     For more information click HERE


   February 6th 2012: Public Lecture

  "Urban Astronomy: Observing the Night Sky from Irish Cities"

   By Kevin Berwick of the Irish Astronomical Society

   For more information click HERE

 

 

    March 5th 2012: Public Lecture
     
   “Solar Activity & how it affects our Climate”
       
    By Dr Ian Elliott, Dunsink Observatory, Dublin 
 
For more information click HERE and HERE




   April 2nd 2012 : Public Lectures

Members Night

 
Two or three short addresses on aspects of astronomy given by Club members followed by Q&A

 
   
May 7th 2012: Public Lecture 

"A Fiesty Tuam Astronomer in Exciting Times"

Talk about John Birmingham, Galway's most famous 19th century Astronomer   
By Professor Paul Mohr, Dept of Geology NUI Galway
 
For more information Click HERE
  

June 11th 2012: Annual General Meeting
 
Followed by

IMAX HUBBLE 3D
 
An IMAX 3D camera chronicles the effort of 7 astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
See the trailer HERE