The next in a series of public talks organised by NUI Galway’s Centre of Astronomy will explore the topic of Giant Telescopes.
The free event takes places at 7.30pm on Wednesday, 9 December, in the McMunn Lecture Theatre, Arts & Science Building, NUI Galway.
A lecture, presented by NUI Galway’s Dr Alexander Goncharov, will focus on telescopes such as the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). The lecture will also cover observing the night sky with a naked eye, amateur telescopes and professional optical telescopes. Essential scientific challenges including the search for earth-like planets will also be discussed.
The series of public talks co-incides with the International Year of Astronomy which takes place throughout 2009.
Further details about the talk can be found on NUI Galway’s website.
