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He is well known for his humorous and politically incorrect astronomy talks, which number well over 200. On 18 December 2003 he discovered a nova in the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31). Mobberley filmed a three-hour interview with the prolific astronomical discoverer George Alcock in 1991, the only complete video interview ever granted by Alcock.
He was hired in 2000 as the Outreach Educator, tasked with bringing astronomy programs to schools around the area. [14] He has since become an expert in observational astronomy. [15] Regas delivers about 150 astronomy talks per year around the region and across the country to audiences of all ages. [3] He stopped working for the observatory in ...
Public talks given by experienced amateur astronomers and by university lecturers of astronomy on various astronomical subjects are held every third Wednesday of the month, from February through November, starting at 7 p.m., with observations offered thereafter. AVV members and visitors convene every Tuesday at 7 p.m.
The narrator describes listening to an astronomy talk, full of figures and charts and diagrams, and starting to feel sick and tired. They end up wandering off, to look up in “perfect silence ...
National Astronomy Week (NAW) is an event held every few years in the United Kingdom to promote public awareness of astronomy by celebrating notable astronomical events. The last NAW, Mars Encounter, was run during the week of 14–22 November 2020.
Star Gazers (formerly known as Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler and later Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer) is a short astronomy show on American public television previously hosted by Jack Horkheimer, executive director of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium.
Karen Meech specializes in planetary astronomy, in particular the study of distant comets and their relation to the early Solar System.She is also very active in professional-amateur collaboration and science teacher education and was the founder of the Towards Planetary Systems (TOPS) high-school teacher / student outreach program that helps educate science teachers in the Pacific islands.
David W. Hughes (7 November 1941 – 6 June 2022) [1] was professor of astronomy at the University of Sheffield, where he worked from 1965 to 2007. [2] Hughes published over 200 research papers on asteroids, comets, meteorites and meteoroids. He wrote on the history of astronomy, the origin of the Solar System and the impact threat to planet ...