4th February 2009
2009 AGM
We had our AGM as per usual and
nominated the committee members, and went through the clubs accounts.
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12th March 2009
SAC PRO - Conan McDonnell,
newspaper interview
Conan did a fab interview in the
Limerick Independent newspaper advertising next months public observing session,
publicising the club and publicising astronomy in general, weldone
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2-5th April 2009
International Year of Astronomy
public outreach observing sessions
The club ran public outreach
observing sessions at O'Callaghans Strand in Limerick from 8pm on these 4
nights. We had many people show up, where they saw the Moon, the planets and some
deepsky objects.
Its was an enjoyable event, one which will be repeated.
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10th August 2009
West Limerick FM interview
Dave and Frank went along to
Newcastle West and visited the West Limerick FM radio station and had a good
hour long interview
where we went through the clubs history and details, the starparty and general
astronomy information.
Its one we'd look forward to doing again.
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9th September 2009
Thomas Bopp presents Whirlpool
print the Lord Rosse
Thomas (invited speaker for this
years BSP) presented a high quality print form the hubble space telesscope to
William Parsons,
7th Earl of Lord Rosse in the Birr castle science center.
Dave Lillis / Frank Ryan / William Parsons / Thomas Bopp / Gordon Lawlor
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25-26th September 2009
Burren Starparty
This years starparty was a great
success, the speakers were Chuck Woods from Sky&Telescope and LPOD, Piers
Bizony and Kevin Nolan.
The spoke about Observing the Moon, Astronomy and Scifi and MArs exploration
respectively.
See here for
more details
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