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City of Stars is the theme for this year’s Galway Astronomy Festival, which will take place in the Westwood Hotel on Saturday. The festival — now the biggest annual gathering of amateur astronomers in the country — will feature talks by some of top names in astronomy from the US, UK, and Ireland, as well as exhibitions, workshops, trade stands, and a trip to the NUI Galway observatory timed to coincide with the new moon.

This year Galway city has been crowned the Astronomy Capital of Ireland during global celebrations for the UN sponsored International Year of Astronomy and this weekend (January 30 and 31) Galway Astronomy Club hosts a celestial extravaganza at the Westwood House Hotel.