Last night I gave a talk to Astro2, the Astronomy & Physics society in NUI Maynooth. This is a slightly updated version of a talk I’ve been developing over the past few years. It’s an hour long an aims to explain the jargon you’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’t need a telescope).

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