Public Lectures (Free)	EDINBURGH SCIENCE FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF ASTRONOMY (IYA) EVENTS	Grand Galilean Ceilidh (£8)
	Saturday 18th APRIL 2009 Edinburgh Student Union Debating Hall, Bristo Square

Public Lectures

2009 A SPACE ODYSSEY - I - FROM GALILEO TO HUBBLE AND BACKYARD
TELESCOPES
A Series of star-studded lectures
(OR - HOW TO BECOME A SKYWATCHING ADDICT)

10.00 - 17.30

ADMISSION - FREE
Participants may attend any part or all of the event, though all day attendance is encouraged.
All ages welcome

PROGRAMME

MORNING

10.00 - 10.25
Professor John C. Brown (Astronomer Royal for Scotland)
http://www.johncbrown.org
Welcome Remarks

10.25-10.50
Dr. Bill Samson (Former Director of Mills Observatory, Dundee)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Samson
Public Astronomy in Scotland

10.50-11.15
Ms Pauline McRae (Former Chairwoman Highland Astronomical Society)
The Dark Skies Scotland Project

11.15-11.40)
Dr. David Gavine (Former President Astronomical Society of Edinburgh
Variable Star Observing

11.40-12.05
Mr Charles Gleed (Astronomical Society of Edinburgh)
Robotic Telescopes for All

12.05 - 12.30
Mr Philip Perkins (Astrocruise)
http://www.astrocruise.com/
Imaging the Cosmos

LUNCH BREAK
12.30-14.00

AFTERNOON

14.00-15.00
Dr Chris Lintott (Sky at Night Presenter; University of Oxford; STFC Science in Society Fellow)
http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/astro/people/ChrisLintott.htm
400 Years of Unveiling the Cosmos

15.00-15.30
Mr John Braithwaite (Clydesdale Astronomical Society)
Buying, making and using telescopes

15.30-16.00
Dr Francisco Diego (University College London; STFC Science in Society Fellow)
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/star/personnel/people/diego.htm
Fire in the sky: The magic of solar eclipses and aurorae

16.00 - 16.30
Mr. Tom Boles (Codenham Observatory, World record holder for supernova discoveries)
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/tomboles/
Supernova Hunting and Cosmology

16.30-17.00
Dr. Helen Fraser (University of Strathclyde)
http://phys.strath.ac.uk/information/people/people.php?staffID=2005
How to hunt for life in the universe.

17.00
Professor John C Brown
Closing discussion

Followed by

GRAND GALILEAN CEILIDH
19.30 - 24.00 same venue (Edinburgh Student Union Debating Hall, Bristo Square)

Dance the night away like a Galilean Satellite to thesound of famed band The Occasionals
Bar on site (Minimum age 18)
Tickets £8 from Edinburgh Science Festival

Book tickets for Ceilidh

If skies clear are clear, between dances see Saturn as Galileo saw it. In any case plan some Jovial eight-some reeling in orbit around our grand Jovian surprise
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Details are also in the Edinburgh Science Festival programme and on the Website http://www.sciencefestival.co.uk/Events/Around-the-City/2009-A-Space-Odyssey-I-From-Galileo-to-Hubble-Backyard-Telescopes

Email enquiries to
lmccalman@blueyonder.co.uk
or
john@astro.gla.ac.uk

Organisers
John Brown, Lorna McCalman, Charles Gleed

Sponsors
IoP, RSE, Edinburgh Science Festival, Kevock Digital