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The following guest speakers have agreed to share their time and expertise and give talks at IISAC2009:
* Andrew Murrell and John Bambury: What's in the Sky at Lostock.
Andrew and John are two of Australia's most experienced observers, and will give a run-down of some of the objects you can observe at IISAC2009 - categorised into targets for small scopes (under 12"), medium scopes (12-18") and large scopes (over 18").
* Lesa Moore: Big Island, Big Telescope.
Lesa's postgraduate research project was based on a deep stack of photographic images used to uncover previously unseen low surface brightness galaxies in Virgo. To determine if the galaxies belong to the Virgo Cluster, distance measurements (spectra) are needed and because the galaxies are faint, Lesa opted for a big telescope. This talk will illustrate the outcomes of her research and show highlights of her trip to the top of Mauna Kea.
* Greg Bradley: tba.
* Professor Geraint Lewis: A universe for me? The anthropic principle in Astronomy.
Geraint is a professor of Astrophysics at Sydney University, and his talk will discuss the anthropic principle - looking at the successes and failures of this controversial idea, as well as looking to the future, where some think that the anthropic principle may be our only guide to one of the major outstanding questions in physics, namely how do we construct a theory of everything?
The official agenda/programme will be available soon.
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