Limerick Astronomy Club

Frank, Would you have a go at sketching at the eyepiece next time ?

Sounds like we made an impression, I'm glad they think it went well.

Hard to believe that was 2 years ago, its seems alot more time then that.

No problem, let me know nearer to the time when you are free.

That is one very impressive looking truss Dob, but there is one thing that design is not taking into account, DEW ! The secondary will fog over and so will the primary given the pic above, the one thing the obsession has is a very big mirror box, this serves as a mini dew shield for the 20" mirror a...

H Frank, Its great that you now have this scope, we all know the bad state the mirror is now in, you can compare it to the images further up in this thread, it was not looked after. They were taken about 3 years ago and it was in pretty good shape back then. I think you and I agree that this scope n...

No worries, We started at around 9 and finished at about 1am, This time using high power (500x), we were able to see the central star of the ring nebula, its certainly a difficult object. See more here http://www.irishastronomy.org/boards/viewtopic.php?t=7044&highlight=&sid=12cd80e54597e65b008068129...

Hi All,
Observing session to be held in Boher as per usual, we'll meet at the pub car park at 8.30, see you then.!

Its up to you Dave to raise the bar and get a 25" scope, and a trailer + car to bring it around :lol: Glad you enjoyed the night. The one thing you'll find about astronomy is that the more you know about it, the more there is learn, there is no end to it, everything from scope optics and abberations...

Its an excellent program Dave, the graphics it has are some of the best out there.
Were you able to find with the aid of the search feature what you saw ?

Well lads what a fantastic night, !! :P It was probabily the most transparent night we've ever had up on the hill, the milkyway was was clearly visible from Perseus on the northeastern horizon to Sagittarius in the south, the Cygnus rift was easily visible right down to Ophiuchus. We set the scopes ...

Message sent, this web texting system is really cool, !

Lads, the weather is looking good, I'm going to send out an observing notice soon on the automated system, if you're not on it and want to be, then let me know.
We'll be at Boher at 8pm, if you have any issues send me a pm or make a post here.

Frank, I'm going to do up a CD with all images that are not yet on the site, I'll give it to you sometime in the next few months as the list is quite extensive.

Just giving the heads up again, Mark doesn't want this scope, we can talk more about it at the club meeting in 2 days.
Before I had a big scope, I would have walked over burning coals barefoot to get this scope, I had it for a number of years way back and I can tell you its a fine scope optically.