London Astrofest Treat Today
by Kevin Brown : last updated: February 23, 2009Welcome back!
Astrofest 2009 Lecture Theatre
I’m just back from European Astrofest held in Kensington, London over the past two days.
And it was a treat!
Interesting presentations in the lecture theatre, plus a wealth of trade stands full of knowledgeable people to learn from. And not forgetting, astronomy products to drool over.
A real highlight today was the “Apollo 11 Remembered” session – a moving recall of those triumphant days in Summer 1969 (which I well remember as a schoolboy), when it seemed as though Science had no boundaries… We, humankind, really could achieve anything if we worked together, applied our cumulative knowledge and set out single-mindedly towards a clear goal.
Apollo 11 Remembered with Moore, Hunt and Turnhill
The Apollo 11 Remembered session was presented by the very people so many of us remember from that time – Patrick (now Sir Patrick) Moore, Garry Hunt and Reg Turnhill.
After this inspiration, I did mini-interviews with a number of the exhibitors at Astrofest today, which I found most interesting.
The interviews will appear here as podcasts very soon.
