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SAAO Cape Town Open Night
June 22 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
The SAAO Open Nights in Cape Town take place on the second and fourth Saturday of every month at 20:00.
All Open Nights will start with a presentation on topics of astronomy or physics. Then, visitors will be given an introduction to the historic McClean telescope, the observatory museum, and the library. If the weather is clear, there will be a chance for stargazing using telescopes set up for the night.
Please email enquiries@saao.ac.za if you have any queries regarding bookings and tours for Cape Town Open Nights.
Speaker: Munira Hoosain
Munira is a PhD student at the University of Cape Town and the SAAO. She is a winner of a PhD Fellowship in the 2024 South African Women in Science Awards. Her research is on measuring how the quantity of neutral hydrogen gas has changed over the universe’s history using data from the LADUMA survey on MeerKAT.