Limerick Astronomy Club

On the Kiruna plus side, there's a place about 80km away called Abisko, nicely remote and very popular for aurora viewing in the winter and hiking in the summer: - http://www.visitsweden.com/sweden/Attractions/Outdoor-activities/Hiking/Abisko/ There's cabins available for rent up there that we staye...

Nope, no warm fuzzy feelings available for this transit unless we go to Thailand or somewhere that far east, I fear :) Though, and correct me if I'm wrong, a) I would imagine going somewhere that the sun is above the horizon for the entire length of the transit would radically increase our chances o...

It was saying 74% as opposed to 76% for Tromso for cloud cover... though whether that's the probability of there being SOME clouds in the sky or a totally clouded out sky, it doesn't say. Interestingly enough, Limerick has an 84% probability of cloud for the transit... I'm guessing somewhere we can ...

Hopefully I'm posting this in the right place now... first ever post up on here :D Another option worth considering for the Venus transit might be Kiruna, in Sweden... we'd need 2 flights to get there, Dublin-Stockholm with Aer Lingus and the Stockholm-Kiruna with SAS economy... looked at a few opti...

Check out

http://www.photographyireland.net/viewtopic.php?t=32790

for some exceptional night shots posted onto the Photography Ireland list...

Mike.