Time to reach for the stars with the expert help of Roger Noble who recently retired from a leading role at the famous Jodrell Bank radio telescope.
His illustrated talks, as well as giving a general understanding of the cosmos, will ask this year “Are We Alone? If there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, how will we know?”
Roger also brings a fine computer-guided optical telescope so we have opportunities to spend late evenings literally star-gazing. Saturn and Jupiter are both likely to offer us good views.
Among the other activities on offer you may find a rocket launching and a hands-on model of the solar system… in which you can be a heavenly body!
These astronomy weeks are designed for families; they can sow seeds of a lifelong interest. Inevitably younger children will have a limited grasp of Roger’s talks, but the universe is mind-boggling even for the best informed adult!