Limerick Astronomy Club

Hello fellow Earthlings, there is a free Hamilton Lecture 2020: The Cosmic Distance Ladder tomorrow Friday 16th October starting at 16:00; It's free, however, you have to register see link https://www.ria.ie/hamilton-lecture-2020-cosmic-distance-ladder. The lecture is presented by Terence Tao. "The ...

FYI the Limerick Radio Club is hosting the national Amateur Radio Society's (IRTS) AGM on the 9/10th April. There are free talks on Saturday 9th from 14:00 to 17:00, one of which is on EME and afterwards there will be a live demo of EME in the Car Park. Using simple 1296MHz equipment supplied by Joe...

There is a ARISS (Amateur Radio on the ISS) http://www.ariss.org/ contact planned for a school in the UK on Thursday 11th of February at 18:11:09. The school http://www.ariss.org/upcoming-contacts.html will contact the ISS direct and the Amateur Radio Licenced Astronaut, in this case Timothy Peake c...

Well done Dave.

Thanks Dave - very much appreciated.

Very nice Dave well done.

Gordon Lalor wrote:I'll be talking to Clare FM about the eclipse at 9:45 on thursday morning, if anyone wants to be entertained.

Well done Gordon.

May the force be with you Gordo

Great stuff Dave. I've got the 10" almost completed - a few screws and that's it.

I'll be going on the Saturday early. Got to pay insurance and IFAS membership to Bernie Foley. Looks like I may have 2 travelling with me - there is room for 1 more. Returning on Sat eve. Very good line up

A very pleasant surprise. Well done to IFAS
Simon

Logged in without a problem. Well done to all involved - good to have the boards back up. Simon

Just like Icarus, Comet ISON may have flown too close to the Sun, but hopefully not close enough, as there is evidence from the SOHO LASCO C3 camera that part of ISON has survived and is brightening. See link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j6nkLnH ... aOwo1H5gaB

Simon

Comet ISON will have it's close encounter with the Sun when it reaches perihelion this evening, Thursday 28th November, at 18:44 UTC. Let's hope it survives grazing the sun - at it's closest it will be just about 1 million Kms above the surface. There are many web sites with loads of informnation. T...

That would be a nice one Frank - looking forward to it.
Regards
Simon