WOLVAS free public lecture by The Sky at Night's Professor Chris Lintott

The Wolverhampton Astronomical Society proudly presents their annual free public lecture on Monday, 8 March online at 7:30 pm by Professor Chris Lintott on "The Crowd and the Cosmos", The story of the Zooniverse project.

Professor Chris Lintott is a British astrophysicist, author and broadcaster well known for presenting the BBC television series "The Sky at Night".

Join the talk live on YouTube.

Astronomer Chris Lintott explains how you could help astronomers sort through galaxies, explore the surface of Mars, or even discover a planet. This is the story of the Zooniverse, which has enlisted more than two million people in the search for cosmic truth.

Using stories drawn from contemporary research, this talk describes their discoveries – including the most mysterious star in the Milky Way – and argues that the search for the truly unusual could rely on you. The talk includes at least one picture of penguins.

The University of Wolverhampton has close ties with the Wolverhampton Astronomical Society after a chance meeting between Steve Wootton (WOLVAS) and Dr Andrew Gascoyne (Senior Lecturer in Mathematics). Since then, the two organisations have been collaborating on events in and outside the University with the mission of igniting and establishing the public interest in Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Caption:  Doug Bickley of WOLVAS giving a talk on the Faulkes Telescope at the University of Wolverhampton