NRF|SAAO Cape Town Open Night
December 7 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
The NRF|SAAO invites you to join one of our 3 Open Nights in Cape Town during the December period.
All Open Nights will start with a presentation on topics of astronomy or related science fields. Visitors will then be given an introduction to the history of the observatory, library, museum, and the 120 year-old McClean telescope. If the weather permits, stargazing will take place with McClean and smaller telescopes.
Please email cptbookings@saao.ac.za or call +27 21 447 0025 if you have any queries regarding bookings.
Speaker: Abigail Thambiran
Abigail Thambiran is an Astrophysics Honours student at the University of Cape Town (UCT) currently undertaking the National Astrophysics and Space Science Programme (NASSP). She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of the Witwatersrand and also interns for the Science Engagement team at the NRF|SAAO part-time. She is passionate about making science accessible to the public and her current research interests include studying a small sub-class of radio pulsars called ‘mode-changing pulsars‘.
Abstract: TBD