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[djellison]

http://astronomy.ie/lecture200902.html

It would be great to see any of you who can make it.

[djellison]

Tried to take some push-frame imaging from the flight home, 1280 x 720 @ 15fps.. I'll see how it works

[helvick]

We had a great evening - Doug is a fantastic speaker and he really has put together an impressive and very entertaining lecture. If you ever have a chance to get to see him in full flight, you absolutely must do so.

The Schrödinger Theatre in TCD was definitely a great venue for the talk too - it's a proper old school lecture theatre that almostly certainly looks and feels exactly the way it did when Schrödinger (may or may not have) lectured there in the 1940's. Despite the class old school environment they have managed to add in the sort of modern presentation conveniences that are kind of important for a lecture like Dougs - like a projection system that works, and a decent sound system.

Doug's opening slide (the one with John Zarnecki's "It's called a cock-up" comment re the original Huygens release plan) was particularly funny this time round and set the event up perfectly as Astronomy Ireland's last guest lecture was by none other than John Zarnecki himself.