Got a day out in London this year to sample AstroFest 2011. Will be dipping into the Friday programme.
Friday, February 4, 2011
10.00 Phobos and Deimos, the amazing moons of Mars Emily Baldwin (Astronomy Now)
10.35 Observing with the Faulkes Telescopes Paul Roche (Faulkes Telescope)
11.10 Coffee break
11.40 Epsilon Aurigae: Eclipses from beyond the Solar System Nathalie Thureau (University of St Andrews)
12.15 Strangers and giants: Uranus and Neptune Chris Arridge (UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory)
14.30 Fred Hoyle, cosmologist and controversialist Simon Mitton (Department of the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge)
15.05 Lunar Transient Phenomena and modern understanding of the Moon Chuck Wood (Planetary Science Institute, Arizona)
16.15 Seeing how galaxies form: new observations from Hubble and Herschel Steve Eales (Cardiff University)
16.50 2012 ? No time to end the world Ed Krupp (Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles)