Limerick Astronomy Club

A fantastic shot Frank, Was it a tiny bit hazy, did that cause the 2 streaks in the image >

nahh, to many other astronomically related expenses at the moment.

We'll soon find out.

Thanks Mikkel,
I think that the same price as last year,

I had a good look at this comet through the 12" tonight and decided to put the canon on the back of the scope and try get a pic or 2. This is 300k, so sorry in advance to our dial up friends. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2149/1819414518_6b466f7bb5_o.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2149/18194145...

humble??, you gotta be kidding me, that's a great image !! If the camera and adapters are the same then the 2 pics are to scale, reports have come in that this thing has expanded alot , to me it now looks quite diffuse to the naked eye, it wasn't like that on Thursday. you should post that in the Co...

Frank and I headed to Doonbeg in Clare last night, a fantastic site illuminated only by the moon. We had a good look at this comet through the 20", there is definitely a steller like nucleus with a fan shaped wedge mini tail completely contained within the coma, the coma had a very definite outline ...

Frank, The setting you show aren't so different from what we were using. We had no luck for the past 2 evenings due to bad weather & equipment issues. Equipment issues??, whoever said manually pointing a half meter wide eight and a half foot long telescope with a 10 arc minute field of view at a tar...

What a picture !!! did you ever thought you'd see the likes.
Fair play to Chris Lintott for been great craic !

How are we for articles at the moment, do we have a good buffer count?

Those price for re coating the mirror are excellent! We really need to do this now, or it will never be done. I'd be reluctant to do this until we have a good cap for the primary, you saw how much dust got on it in only 3 days. Once done, I agree, the coatings are top priority. I was thinking again...

She's a beauty now, especially compared to what it did look like, see http://shannonsideastronomy.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=16 I'll make up a drawing for the primary mirror cell and then figure out what materials we need for it. As for recoating the mirrors, I did a quick look around and found http...

All receipts are been kept John, we can have a good talk about this at the club meeting on Wednesday.

Sounds great to me Frank, give me a call about it when you're ready.
We should take pics before and after for comparison.

Hi, Frank and I started the long awaited revamp of the clubs 12" scope last night, we cleaned both mirrors as best we could. We centered dotted both mirrors to aid collimation. We put a hatch in by the primary mirror so that we can get access to the mirror, this hatch also acts as a lid/cover for th...