Bluedot Volume1

STARGAZING
“Look you, this brave o’erhanging
firmament, this majestical roof
fretted with golden fire.”
Hamlet, William Shakespeare
Our obsession with the stars is as old as humanity itself.
Drawing upon this timeless impulse, bluedot’s Stargazing
series is set to propel you into the cosmos. Stargaze as never
before as our panel of experts guide you through late-night talks
and tours of the night sky in the darker corners of Jodrell Bank.
These will be headed up by bluedot’s resident cosmic expert
TIM O’BRIEN, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of
Manchester, and PETE LAWRENCE from the BBC’s Sky At Night.
TIM O’BRIEN
PETE LAWRENCE
As well as chairing talks and introducing acts on the Lovell Stage,
Jodrell Bank’s Associate Director will be hosting two extraordinary live
links with two of the world’s leading observatories. One will be to
LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) sin the
USA where the detection of gravitational waves was made earlier this
year. The second will be to eminent scientist Christine Corbett Moran,
who’s currently working in the extremes of the Antarctic darkness using
the South Pole Telescope at the Amundsen-Scott research station.
As well as being a presenter on the Sky At Night and an astronomical
consultant for Stargazing Live, Pete Lawrence is a leading expert in
astrophotography, capturing beautiful views of the sky. Pete will bring
his great expertise and knowledge of the night sky to bluedot, showing
off some of his most spectacular photographs of the universe – including
the Northern Lights, Jupiter, Saturn and the Sun.
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