Dates for interest group meetings

Programme of July activities(details will also be published in relevant issues of the Hermanus Times):

Monday 4 July

The Cosmology Group of the Hermanus Astronomy Centre will be presenting its Cosmology Lectures via DVD at SANSA (formerly the Magnetic Observatory) at 7.30 pm.
Part 29:  ‘Back to the GUT – matter and forces emerge’ and Part 30: ‘Puzzling problems remain’.  For more information please contact Pierre Hugo at pierre@hermanus.co.za or 028 314 1638.

Thursday 7 July

The Hermanus Astronomy Centre will hold its monthly meeting at SANSA (formerly the Magnetic Observatory) at 7.00 pm. Centre member David Kershaw will e presenting a DVD entitled ‘The story of CERN: a fifty year journey into the heart of the matter’. This will be followed by stargazing from the SANSA car park (weather permitting). An entrance fee of R20 will be charged per person for non-members and R10 for children & students. For more information, take a look at our website www.hermanusastronomy.co.za or contact John Saunders at shearwater@hermanus.co.za or 028 314 0543

Monday 11 July

The Hermanus Astronomy Centre will hold a Beginner’s Astronomy evening at 7.00 pm at SANSA (formerly the Magnetic Observatory). It will be the first DVD in a five-part BBC series titled ‘Wonders of the solar system’ presented by Prof. Brian
Cox.  Part 1: ‘Empire of the Sun’. This will be followed by stargazing from the SANSA car park (weather permitting).
An entrance fee of R20 will be charged per person for non-members and R10 for children & students.  If you wish to come along please contact John Saunders on 028 314 0543 or by e-mail at shearwater@hermanus.co.za to reserve a place.

Monday 18 July

The Cosmology Group of the Hermanus Astronomy Centre will be presenting its Cosmology Lectures via DVD at SANSA (formerly the Magnetic Observatory at 7.30 pm.
Part 31:  ‘Inflation provides the solution’ and Part 32: The quantum origin of all structure’. For more information please contact Pierre Hugo at pierre@hermanus.co.za or 028 314 1638

Monday 25 July

The Hermanus Astronomy Centre will hold a Beginner’s Astronomy evening at 7.00 pm at SANSA (formerly the Magnetic Observatory). It will be the second DVD  in a five-part BBC series titled ‘Wonders of the solar system’ presented by Prof. Brian Cox.  Part 2: ‘Order out of chaos’. This will be followed by stargazing from the SANSA car park (weather permitting).
An entrance fee of R20 will be charged per person for non-members and R10 for children & students.  If you wish to come along please contact John Saunders on 028 314 0543 or by e-mail at shearwater@hermanus.co.za to reserve a place.

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