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Stars of Christmas and Mann 29 November 2004 On Friday, 10th December 2004 the Manx Museum
Heritage Shop will remain open until 7.30pm for late night Christmas shopping
and following this there will be a Public Lecture on the Stars of Christmas in
the Lecture Theatre. Why not combine the two events by enjoying a spot of
leisurely late night shopping with a glass of mulled wine and mince pie before
relaxing in the lecture theatre for a talk presented by well known astronomer,
Howard Parkin.
In 2001 as part of the Manx National Heritage Winter lecture programme, Howard
Parkin, Public Services Manager at MNH and well known astronomer was asked to do
a lecture at the Museum entitled The Manx Night sky, and this included many
references to astronomical events and activities. Following the talk, the
Chairman of the MNH Trustees at that time, Mr Bernard Caine, invited Howard to
return with an update of his findings sometime in the future.
Over recent years, Howard has in his capacity as Press Officer and now Chairman
of the Isle of Man Astronomical Society, as well as a part time teacher of
Astronomy at the IOM College, managed to find many more links to the subject
throughout Manx history.
Manx National Heritage are therefore delighted that Howard will once again be
giving a lecture entitled 'Rollageyn y Nollick as Rollageyn Vannin' ('Stars of
Christmas & Stars of Mann') at the Museum on Friday, 10th December 2004
commencing at 7.30pm.
This lecture will cover Howard's research into the Star of Bethlehem from a Manx
perspective along with a brief review of the work of the IOM Astronomical
Society and their observatory at Foxdale.
Howard said:
"I am delighted to be able, once again to share my enthusiasm for the subject
of Astronomy with the public, and topically enough it presents me with an
opportunity to talk about what might have been seen in Manx Skies at the time of
the birth of Jesus, and I thought it would be a nice touch to entitle the
lecture in Manx which helps provide the link to what is often regarded as one of
mankinds oldest professions."
In recent month there has been an increased amount of interest in the subject
both on and off Island, and last summer Manx National Heritage received on loan
from NASA, courtesy of ManSat, a Manx based company, a piece of Moonrock which
was displayed at the House of Manannan. More stories >>>
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