This yr’s Christmas message from the Archbishops of Armagh, which was filmed in Armagh Observatory and Planetarium and attracts on the theme of the Christmas Star, shall be broadcast on Christmas Day at 12.10pm on RTÉ One tv and 1.05pm on RTÉ Radio One. The programme may even be out there after broadcast on the RTÉ Participant.
Archbishops Eamon Martin and John McDowell with youngsters from Armstrong Major College and St Patrick’s Major College having fun with an interactive show at Armagh Planetarium.
The message shall be accompanied by carol signing by a choir from Armstrong Major College and St Patrick’s Major College and interviews with Professor Michael Burton (Director of the Observatory and Planetarium) and different astronomers who’re based mostly within the ecclesiastical capital.
Archbishops Eamon Martin and John McDowell on the filming of this yr’s RTÉ Christmas Day message in Armagh Observatory.
Armagh Observatory, one in every of Eire’s main centres for astronomical analysis and schooling, was based in 1790 by Archbishop Richard Robinson, and its outreach work to varsities and the broader neighborhood was drastically enabled by the opening of the Planetarium in 1968 underneath the management of then Director, Dr Eric Lindsay. Three of the oldest Observatories on the planet are to be present in Eire – in Armagh, at Dunsink and in Birr, and they’re a part of a singular North–South partnership of Astronomical Observatories.
Professor Michael Burton seems to the skies at Armagh Observatory, the setting for this yr’s RTÉ Christmas Day broadcast with the Archbishops of Armagh.
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