Show Notes
Guests: Peter Gallagher, Director of Dunsink Observatory at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and an Adjunct Professor at Trinity College Dublin
John Regan from Maynooth University
Laura Hayes, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS)
If you would like to listen to Jonathan’s experience of flying into the path of totality of the solar eclipse in 2015, here’s the link: https://soundcloud.com/whipsmart-media/path-of-totality-1
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