History of Astronomy Group Meeting: 'Galileo and Sidereus Nuncius: The Starry Messenger'
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Royal Observatory Greenwich
Blackheath Avenue Greenwich Greenwich SE10 8XJ United KingdomDescription
Flamsteed History of Astronomy Group Meeting.
In 1610, Galileo published Sidereus Nuncius – The Starry Messenger – the first book of observations of the night sky with a telescope. The craters on the Moon, the moons of Jupiter, and the wealth of stars in the Pleiades, Orion, and the Milky Way were all wonders of the universe that had never been seen before. In this talk, Andy Sawers brings Sidereus Nuncius to life, explaining what Galileo saw, what he understood by it all and some of the controversy about the book that would later come to haunt Galileo.
THIS EVENT IS OPEN TO MEMBERS OF THE FLAMSTEED ASTRONOMY SOCIETY ONLY.
Please do not book a place on this event if you are not a member of the society. Your booking will be cancelled if your name does not appear on our membership database.
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The Flamsteed is an amateur astronomy society at the Royal Observatory and National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London SE10. It has around 400 members who represent the full range of interests and experience in astronomy. Many are beginners. It is named after the first Astronomer Royal, John Flamsteed. The Society was founded in 1999, and is part of the membership organisation of Royal Museums Greenwich. Our lecture meetings are held on the first Monday of each month between September and May in the lecture theatre of the National Maritime Museum, or in the Peter Harrison Planetarium at the Royal Observatory Greenwich (ROG). The Society regularly holds observing evenings using members’ own telescopes. In addition the Society stages viewing sessions with the ROG’s Great Equatorial refractor, the largest of its kind in the UK, and seventh largest in the world. We are members of The Federation of Astronomical Societies.