Grygar in Beroun

A day after his own birthday a famous Czech astronomer and famous popularizer of the science arrived to Beroun's Museum to have a speech about the Future of Astronomy in the next 10-20 years.

This year it's been exactly 400 years since the time Galileo Galilei first invented a telescope (Galileian telescope) and started to study the night sky. A year later he published a Starry Messenger in which he described all he found out. And not only this happened...it was also the period of Tycho de Brahe and Johannes Kepler. It was Kepler that replied to Galilei's Starry Messenger with his own speculations about the meaning and implications of all this new era of discovering what is above our heads (Conversation with the Starry Messenger). Later it was him who published his own book about his own discoveries (as he invented a much more sophisticated telescope - Keplerian telescope) which later led to Kepler's laws.

We were told about all the discoveries and inventions that made us progress and made us learn many new things we did not expect to find out. And from all this he speculated on what we could probably find out in the next 20 years and what mankind could possibly invent to help us in this cause.