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Conference Programme
Friday 6th February 2009
Session 1 (morning)
The Universe in 3D
Greg Smye-Rumsby, Astronomy Now
The hunt for Planet X
Govert Shilling, Astronomy journalist and author
Nebulae, birthplaces of stars
Carolin Crawford, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
Space debris: danger in orbit
Rivhard Crowther, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Session 2 (afternoon)
Activity cycles in stars
David Hathaway, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Cosmic dawn: The search for the first stars and galaxies
Dan Stark, Caltech and Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
What we learned from Apollo
Wendell Mendell, NASA Johnson Space Center
Saturday 7th February 2009
Session 3 (morning)
Sharpening your image
Richard Myers, University of Durham
Barred spiral galaxies
Johan Knapen, Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Tenerife
The red spots of Jupiter
John Rogers, British Astronomical Association
Apollo 11 remembered
Patrick Moore, Garry Hunt, Reg Turnhill
Session 4 (afternoon)
Predicting the sunspot cycle
David Hathaway, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Return to the Moon
Wendell Mendell, NASA Johnson Space Center
The Allan Chapman lecture: Thomas Harriot and Galileo’s English contemporaries
Allan Chapman, University of Oxford
One additional lecture to be announced.
Lecture programme is provisional and subject to change.