Yearly Archives: 2020

LTO suspends operations for the rest of March 2020

Due to the current Corona Virus pandemic environment, we have decided to suspend our operations and all activities, including public star night, for the rest of March 2020.

At the end of March we will reassess this decision and update you on our next actions.

Contact met meinte@starkids.org if you have any questions

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Public Star Night 20 March 2020 – Movie “The City Dark”

After our very successful January Public Star
Night on the Importance of Dark Skies, we have decided to follow this up with
the screening of the movie “The City Dark” from film maker Ian Cheney.

THE CITY DARK chronicles the disappearance of
darkness. The film follows filmmaker (and amateur astronomer) Ian Cheney,

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Public Star Night 21 February 2020 – Dr Emily Hardegree-Ullman – Erased from History

Our guest speaker for this public star night will be Dr. Emily
Hardegree-Ullman.  The title of her
presentation is “Erased from History”.

Einstein, Hawking, Hubble. Ask a stranger to
name a famous astronomers and 9 times out of 10 they will think of a man.
Despite the incredible contributions of women to astronomy,

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