As part of the 2020 Samhain agus Science festival at Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS), our Astronomy & Astrophysics section will launch its Royal Society-funded Citizen Science meteor-spotting project.

Our researchers will be joined by special guests from TCD and the Irish Federation of Astronomical Societies for an evening of meteor-themed discussions which will describe the basics of meteor spotting, how the project links into the larger NEMETODE video-based meteor observation network, what astronomers can learn from the data and how the public can get involved. Two of our recent research interns will also tell us about how they are contributing to the project, from building an online platform for sharing the latest observations to an ambitious machine learning initiative to classify them.

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This will be an outline event presented via Zoom.

Those registered will receive a link to the event 2 hours before the event is due to begin.

Anyone with queries please email communications@dias.ie