Meeting are held on the first Monday of every month from September to June at the Westwood House Hotel  which is located on the western side of the city next to the N59 Galway-Clifden Road. Further details below.

All upcoming meetings will have a new observing workshop to help beginners with their observing skills. Nights out with telescopes within  the city area will also become a regular part of our program with members being informed via text. 

Upcomings Meetings 2010/11 Season

August 23rd (at NUI Galway, Dillion Theatre): "Origins of Water on Earth - Research of the University of Hawaii NASA Astrobiology Institute"

Speaker: Dr Jacqueline Keane, University of Hawaii

September 6th: "The Hubble Space Telescope : History still in the making"

Speaker: Mr Seanie Morris, Midlands Astronomy Club

Worldwide Space week http://www.worldspaceweek.org/

October 4th: “Is the Universe a Machine for Producing Life?”

Speaker: Peter Household, Chairman of the Cork Astronomy Club

http://www.corkastronomyclub.com/

After a quick survey of the current scope of the search for life in the Universe Peter will suggest some avenues that amateur astronomers keen to enlarge their knowledge of this subject may wish to pursue. What is life? How does it arise? What does the evolution of life on earth suggest about the sort of life we may find in space? What may we hope to learn from current projects such as synthetic biology, attempts to create artificial intelligence, and the exploration of Lake Vostok

 November 1st: “ A Beginners Guide to Cosmology: The Science of Everything”

Speaker: Dr Ian Mclaren, Centre for Astronomy, NUI Galway

December 6th: "Big, Bigger, Biggest, The  European Extremely Large Telescope: Science goals and Technology challenges"  http://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/e-elt.html

Speaker: Dr Alexander Goncharov, Centre for Astronomy, NUI Galway

January 10th 2011 "Galileo and the Copernican Revolution"
Speaker: Prof. Markus H. Woerner, Dept of Philosophy, NUI Galway

February 2nd "Pulsars: Death and Rebirth"
Speaker: Dr Andy Shearer, Dept Head, Centre for Astronomy, NUI Galway

March 4th-5th Galway Astronomy Festival 2011

March 14th  "The Extreme High Energy Universe"

Speaker: Dr Mark Lang, Centre for Astronomy, Senior Lecturer and
Head of School of Physics , NUI Galway

April 4th: "The Living Cosmos"
Speaker Kevin Nolan, Lecturer in Physics, Tallaght IT & author of the book "Mars A Cosmic Stepping Stone"

May 2nd: "Astronomy 3-D"
Speaker: Dr Brian Epsey, School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin

June 6th: AGM + Roving MARS DVD

Other Activites involved in

September 18th: International Observe the Moon Night

October 4th: International Space Week

October 22nd: Joyce Counrty  Festival Clonbur, Co Galway

November 21st: Galway Science and Technology Fair

December 13th-14th: Geminid Meteor Shower Observing nights