The last public lecture of the season is by tradition Members Night and in a first, and this year we had music. Colm Philpott (main photo) sang his own compositions about Titan, Mars, Europa, and the Pinwheel Galaxy.
The evening also featured two short talks from members “Looking Up – the amazing achievements of the Grubb, Parsons and Holland Families of the 19th and 20th Centuries” John Burgess, smaller image left, told of the extraordinary achiemnets of these Irish engineering familes. Before the meeting began, members had a look round the historic Crawford Obervatory, right next door to the lecture theatre, with Grubb instruments in perfect working order.
And “The James Webb Space Telescope and Supernova Encore” Pat O’Sullivan, right, told how astronomers must wait another 15 years for light to arrive from a supernova which will help calculate the speed of the expansion of the universe. .
This will be a Cork Astronomy Club public lecture, all welcome.