We found out about the Armagh Planetarium from its Director - Dr Tom Mason.

MP3: Armagh Planetarium Interview

NAM isn’t just attended by professional astronomers. At the Education & Outreach session a talk was given by Jacquie Milligan and pupils from a school south of Belfast - Glenlola Collegiate School. Jacquie is a biology teacher but has been using astronomy for various out-of-hours activities. The pupils have been using the Faulkes Telescope for various research projects and impressed all the professional astronomers and outreach people in the audience with their work. They were an inspiring group and at lunch I caught up with them to get an interview.

MP3: Interview with Jacquie Milligan and Pupils.

Yesterday at coffee time I caught up with Emily Baldwin who is the Society for Popular Astronomy’s “Chief Stargazer”. I asked her what that involved.

MP3: Emily Baldwin Interview.

From authors Robert J. Simpson and Derek Ward-Thompson, the poster ‘SCUBA on Google Sky’ is listed as part of the ‘Education and Outreach’ session.

Abstract: The submillimetre maps produced by the SCUBA instrument on the JCMT have been made available on Google Sky. Using the complete SCUBA catalogue (Di Francesco et al 2006) and Google Earth’s new ‘Sky’ feature (Christian et al 2007), SCUBA data can now be easily accessed by the public, worldwide (Simpson 2008). Complete 850µm and 450µm autoreduced maps, along with the point source catalogue, have been made available. A short list of ‘interesting features’ is also included Some examples and uses are presented here, along with instructions on how to access the data.

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From authors Stuart Lowe, Nick Rattenbury, Tim O’Brien, Ian Morison, Megan Argo & David Ault, the poster ‘The Jodcast’ is listed as part of the ‘Education and Outreach’ session.

Abstract: Portable MP3 players are now seemingly ubiquitous and are becoming an integral part of the daily commute to school or work. Although commonly used for listening to music, they are increasingly used to experience podcasts - audio and video content delivered using RSS feeds. We report the development of Jodrell Bank Observatory’s astronomy podcast - The Jodcast - over the past two years. We also describe our plans to produce video podcast content in the run up to the International Year of Astronomy 2009.

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