Perched on a barren mountaintop in the arid Chilean desert region of Coquimbo, the Vera C Rubin Observatory is a state-of-the-art telescope connected to the world’s largest camera, set to change our understanding of astronomy.  And it will offer opportunities to citizen scientists. William O’Mullane (pictured below) is its data management project manager. With family connections in County Cork, he will be visiting here in May, and has kindly offered to give this lecture, which is extra to our normal programme.

Our Club has heard from the Rubin Observatory before,  when the observatory’s Amanda Bauer honoured us with a remote lecture in March 2021.

Note : Please arrive 10 minutes early.