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Midlands Astronomy Club will be setting up their high powered telescopes in the courtyard of Athlone Castle on Saturday, October 19, from 8pm until 11pm.

Comets, meteors, solar storms, and other phenomena that pose a danger to our planet will be explored at the annual Galway Astronomy Festival, which takes place in the Westwood Hotel this Saturday.

What could you call one of the best years a local astronomical club had in recent times? A ‘cosmic’ year? A ‘galactic’ year? How about just another great year?

Scientists at NUI Galway are developing technologies which mimic the human eye for use in large space telescopes.

Galwegians hoping to see tomorrow’s partial solar eclipse can view the event from a viewing point in Salthill, thanks to members of Galway Astronomy Club.

The Dean Crowe is set to celebrate the Summer Solstice with its third fair this Saturday June 21. The Dean Crowe Theatre and Arts Centre has been delighted to play host to a wonderful number of extremely talented local arts and crafts merchants since its first foray into holding fairs last Christmas. This is hoped to continue through the summer months and attract a wider catchment of potential buyers by targeting the tourists who will visit Athlone in their thousands this season.

A RHYTHM, dance, and fire, and spectacular to celebrate midsummer, takes place this Saturday, in Brigit’s Garden, Rosscahill, from 7.30pm to 11.30pm.

The Dean Crowe Theatre and Arts Centre, Athlone will host a summer solstice fair on Saturday June 21.

As the Voyager space probe recently left the solar particle field for regions where the sun’s influence does not penetrate, it is timely to look at the history of human attempts to understand the cosmos.

The NUI Galway Astronomy Society will welcome world renowned astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell for a special talk on Tuesday, September 24.