AstroFest 2009

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AstroFest 2009

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.