Mayo Dark Skies

🔭🪐 Space weekend in Newport!
From the edge of the solar system to the junk orbiting above our heads, Newport is the place to be for astronomy this weekend.
Saturday 31 Oct
🔭 10am · Stephen Kershaw (KTec Telescopes): a practical guide to telescopes
🪐 11.30am · Derek Dempsey FRAS, founder of Newport Astronomy Club: Pluto’s discovery, demotion and new horizons
🎻 2.30pm · Karen Dervan: the Voyager Golden Record, reimagined
🌫️ 4pm · John Zarnecki: Titan, the moon where the sky is always cloudy
Sunday 1 Nov
🎬 10am · Free family film: Touching the Asteroid
🛰️ 11.30am · Niall Smith, co-founder of Blackrock Castle Observatory: “Look out! There’s space debris about!”
🧱 2.30pm · Michael Wise: how space telescopes really get built
🌟 4pm · Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell: the discovery of pulsars
👧 FREE planetarium shows both days at Newport National School (no booking, just turn up).
🏮 And on Sunday night: the Lantern Walk at 6.30pm, then Jack L at 7pm.
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