{"id":2639,"date":"2013-10-23T15:40:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T15:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=2639"},"modified":"2014-08-07T13:01:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T13:01:43","slug":"presentation-intro-to-practical-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2013\/10\/23\/presentation-intro-to-practical-astronomy\/","title":{"rendered":"Presentation &#8211; Intro to Practical Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I gave a talk to Astro2, the Astronomy &#038; Physics society in NUI Maynooth. This is a slightly updated version of a talk I&#8217;ve been developing over the past few years. It&#8217;s an hour long an aims to explain the jargon you&#8217;re likely to come across on Astronomy websites (or magazines if you still do the dead-tree thing), to quickly summarise the kinds of things you can see in the sky, and to look at the kinds of equipment you might want (no, you really don&#8217;t need a telescope).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/presentations\/131022-IntroToPracticalAstronomy\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/AstroIntroTitleSlide.jpg\" alt=\"Instroduction to Practical Astronomy\" style=\"border-width:0px;\" width=\"490\" height=\"377\" \/><br \/>View The Presentation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I gave a talk to Astro2, the Astronomy &#038; Physics society in NUI Maynooth. This is a slightly updated version of a talk I&#8217;ve been developing over the past few years. It&#8217;s an hour long an aims to explain the jargon you&#8217;re likely to come across on Astronomy websites (or magazines if you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[506,36,491],"series":[],"class_list":["post-2639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-astronomy","tag-astro-2","tag-astronomy","tag-presentation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t9xK-Gz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2640,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions\/2640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2639"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}