A free talk about the Sun is taking place in Preston later this month.
Emeritus Professor Don Kurtz will host How far away is the Sun? on Thursday 26 June.
Professor Kurtz will take attendees on a journey to explain how astronomers were finally able to determine the distance of the Sun.
It is a story of a cold castle tower, a dungeon, a Great Dane, a hypochondriac, Shakespeare, a child prodigy, a genius, sea battles and voyages of discovery, royal observatories, a clockmaker, a gentleman returned from the dead, and even Dixieland jazz – all leading to the greatest payoff of all time.
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Professor Kurtz, who spent 44 years working as an astrophysics professor at the University of Cape Town and the University of Central Lancashire, said: “The angular size of an object of unknown size does not provide us with enough information to determine how distant that object is.”
How far away is the Sun? will take place at 6.30pm in the University of Central Lancashire’s Harrington Lecture Theatre in Victoria Street. Refreshments will be served from 6pm.
Register for free tickets on Eventbrite and email Dr Victor Debattista at VPDebattista@uclan.ac.uk with any questions.
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