The final purchases are being made as AstroFest 2010 draws to a close. It's been a wonderfully busy two days, and it's been great meeting you all. Wishing you a safe trip home, and we look forward to welcoming you back to AstroFest next year!
Patrick Moore and Brian May discussed their shared love of astronomy and music and took questions from the audience.
Meeting the authors of Bang!
My signed copy of BANG! (if you're still in the queue a word of advice - make sure the ink has dried before closing the book!!!)
The hall is filling up fast for Session 3 - it's a total sell out!
The 3D Universe is proving to be very popular at the Astronomy Now stand!
Sign up the Society for Popular Astronomy at a discounted price of £12 for the year!
Even our speakers are Tweeting from inside the AstroFest conference hall! If you're here and tweeting, use the #AstroFest hashtag.
Keith and I were just given a rocket cake by a young lady who enjoyed reading our Starlight magazine during the International Year of Astronomy. Mmmmm!
More on Starlight: www.starlight-news.co.uk
Well that's day one of AstroFest 2010 over, but we'll be doing it all again tomorrow - doors open at 9am for the exhibition and the talks kick off at 10am with solar storms and supernovae! We'll also be welcoming special guests Sir Patrick Moore and Dr Brian May in the session before lunch. Don't forget to come say hello to us on stand 16, too!
The Astronomy Now stand was visited by the University of St Andrews astronomy society today, in specially made AstroFest t-shirts sponsored by Astronomia (stand 22-23)!
There's a packed out conference hall for this afternoon's lecture programme which features William McKinnon on the Galilean Satellites, Mark Sullivan on the accelerating Universe, Jill Tarter on the first 50 years of SETI and Allan Chapman on 'Aliens: a history from Selenites to ET'.
Conference chair Ian Ridpath introduces the afternoon session.
Professor McKinnon kicks session two off with a grand tour of the Galilean Satellites - 400 years after they were first discovered by Galileo.
