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Type Talks and tours
Location
Date and Times Friday 8 August 2025 | 6pm-8pm
Prices Adults: £12 | Students and Under 25s: £8.50

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Join us after hours for a panel discussion highlighting and celebrating the past, present and future of astrophotography.

You'll have the opportunity to hear from expert judges and winners from the world's biggest space photography competition, Astronomy Photographer of the Year.

Afterwards, take a look around the spectacular exhibition of shortlisted and winning photographs from Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2024.

 

Meet our panellists

 

Martin Lewis

Martin Lewis is a previous winner of the both the Planets, Comets and Asteroids, and Our Moon categories in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition and is now an APY judge. He is an optoelectronics engineer, telescope builder and hi-resolution planetary imager.

 

Melissa Brobby

Melissa Brobby is an amateur astronomer, space writer and science communicator. Melissa's love for space led to her passion to promote this subject to a wider audience through social media, and has created science education videos for families. 

 

Dr Lee Macdonald

Dr Lee Macdonald is Librarian and Archivist at the History of Science Museum, University of Oxford. He holds an MPhil and a PhD in History and Philosophy of Science. He specialises in the history of astronomy and observatories, and is the author of numerous articles plus a book, 'Kew Observatory and the Evolution of Victorian Science, 1840-1910' (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018). A second book, on the history of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich from 1881 to 1939, is to be published next year. A long-time amateur astronomer and astrophotographer, Lee is also the author of 'How to Observe the Sun Safely' (Second Edition, Springer, 2012).

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