Limerick Astronomy Club

Lads,
it could be clear tomorrow(Saturday) night, any takers ?

Hey Frank,
Anything up there in Flickr by me, you are free to use.

Looks like a good location, I'm abit torn between been as far north west as possible and then having to look east for it, the location you picked is as good a horizon as your going to get without going to the east antrim coast, but wow is that a long journey, never thought I'd be north of Carndonagh...

Yea, the North cost is littered with hotels, accommodation is not going to be a problem, what will be a problem will be the decision to go or stay put, a critical decision. You could go up to the Giant's Causeway , but to be honest I'm not sure I want to be that far east, aren't there some fab cliff...

Lol, would there be that much difference between limerick and shannon??, I must check my times again when I get a chance

ok, I had a look at starrynight and I pinned down some times for this. The occultation starts at 4.53.53pm on Saturday the 25th of october, the moon fully obscures the planet+rings by 4.55.10pm, so it takes the Moon 1 minute 17 seconds to cross the planet, the entire things happens at an altitude of...

Watch out for potential solar activity in the coming week, one of the biggest sunspots of this solar maximum has just appeared on the limb of the sun, you never know but if it fires a big flare in our direction, then it could be spectacular

Tbh I wouldn't fancy lahinch. Too far for me.
Wouldn't somewhere on gallows hill be good for this?
What time is sunset and what time is this setting, also isn't that comet passing by Mars this weekend, some people are going to try view it apparently, I think that's going to be a tough one tbh

Yip, let's go for it, a good SW horizon, hmm where would you have in mind ?

Hi All, As I'm sure some of you know by now, there is a total solar eclipse crossing the Atlantic on March 20th, 2015. With our typical luck in this country, were just off the totality path, some are going up on planes or going to Faroe or Svalbard for it, fair play to them. For those who are stayin...

Hi All,
Ifas are doing a 2015 astrophotography calender, theyre looking for entries to be voted on for selection.
If you're interested and have an image to submit, have a look at
http://www.irishastronomy.org/index.php ... Itemid=211

Hi all, What a super night !!, we showed up at 7.50 , Frank Prendergast did an interesting talk on stone circles across Ireland and further afield and how they compare, and the possible astronomical significance of the stones in the one at Lock Gur. At the end, we set up the clubs 12" dobsonian tele...

Guys,
Who is down to do this talk ?

Hi,
As I'm sure you all know by now, Frank Prendergast will be giving a talk at the center at loch gur this evening at 8, a number of us are heading out there, who else is going out ?

I'm selling my Intes MK-67, it's a 6" F/12 Maksutov gauranteed at 1/8 wave accurate optics. I'm selling cos I've got bigger scopes so this scope never gets used. Here's what this scopes comes with, Bobknobs collimation bolts (fitted) Padded carry bag (fits airline luggage carry-on size restrictions)...