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The ScottishPower Planetarium at Glasgow Science Centre is the best planetarium in the UK, and is home to an evening lecture series with speakers from around the world lecturing on many different astronomical subjects. Lectures occur monthly on the last Thursday of every month from February to November inclusive. Tickets cost £4.95 per person, although a Privilege Pass ticket is available at £29.95 allowing entry into all ten of this year's lectures. To receive further information on these lectures please send an e-mail to steve.owens@glasgowsciencecentre.org
These lectures are sponsored by PPARC, the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council
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January:
The Plough
February:
Canis Major
March:
Gemini
April:
Leo
May:
Bootes
June:
Cygnus
July:
Ursa Minor
August:
The Summer Triangle
September:
Pegasus
October:
Cassiopeia
Novemeber:
Taurus
December:
Orion
