Mon 10th Sept 2018 “Mars: not this good again till 2035” – Frances McCarthy, Education and Outreach Officer, Blackrock Castle Observatory
Mon 8th Oct 2018 “Exoplanets – the past, present and future”, Dr Chris Watson, head of the exoplanet group, Queens University Belfast.
Mon 12th Nov 2018 “The 1919 solar eclipse – a centenary worth observing” – Prof Paul Callanan, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, UCC.
December 2018 – no lecture
Mon 14th Jan 2019 “Watch out! There’s space debris about” – Dr Niall Smith, Head of Research CIT / Head of Blackrock Castle Observatory
Mon 11th Feb 2019 “The Character of the Universe – It’s Written in the Stars” – Tom Bonner, a leading member of our Club
Mon 11th Mar 2019 “How we got to the moon and back” – Brian MacGabhann, About the Apollo 11 mission. Galway Astronomy Club
Mon 8th April 2019 “Dark Matters – viewing the dark in a new light” – Georgia MacMillan, light pollution campaigner and one of the organisers of Mayo Dark Sky Festival
Mon 13th May 2019 CIT’s Dr Niall Smith and Club member Eddie Lyons will debate the rights and wrongs of terraforming Mars and sending life to other planets.
