Limerick Astronomy Club

Great stuff! thanks for posting it.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2074/1623375573_8e361c2e5b.jpg WOW Dave! That is a FANTASTIC image. I can't see and onion effect, it's totally smooth. The balance is perfect and you can just see the streamers in the tail without going over the top in pushing the levels. The startrailing gives a love...

WOw! Conn, they are fantastic!

The comet has grown in size for sure...
Check this animation out on Spaceweather..

http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php ... &year=2007

I can see the change even with the naked eye now.
What an awesome comet!

Wow Conn thats class.
How did you photograph it?
(your 'humble' image is as good as I've seen anywhere! - you should post up more!)

Lads and Lassies, it looks like its getting bigger and brighter for sure!!!
(based on tonights observation anyway)

Sweet! First images of a comet! :D http://www.frankryanjr.com/Comet_17P_Holmes_4.jpg Taken Wed 24th around midnight with the ETX125PE. Phillips Spc900 webcam (no barlow) Here's a wide angle shot from thes same night.... http://www.frankryanjr.com/Comet_17PHolmes_widefield_outburst_24.10.07copy.jpg [...

Still keeping an eye out for the ISS tonight. I reckon if it was clear we would have stood a chance. There were a few bright stars visable so focus and exposure could have been sorted. Even though the clouds were around you could still see it quite plainly through them. Here is a quick shot: http://...

Actually Dave,
Here is a shot of the settings I used for the webcam that time I
Photographed the ISS & Shuttle,
I think is's slightly different to what we had in terms of shutter speed and gain?

Hi all, Just a quick note to let ye know what some of us are up to lately... As ye know the ISS is passing over Ireland again this week. I had some succes photographing it through my 5'' ETX a while back: http://www.irishastronomy.org/boards/viewtopic.php?t=6591&start=0 But Dave gave me a shout the ...

Now here is a photo I never thought I'd see!

Dr. Chris Lintott at the Whirlpool starparty

Those price for re coating the mirror are excellent! We really need to do this now, or it will never be done. As for the Logo. I've started the stencil for it and should be able to do the artwork on Wed evening. I was thinking again about where it would look best and to be honest, I reckon on the fr...

Well we spent the whole day on this today at my workshop. From Midday to 9PM pretty much straight through! Phew!! First up, we had a look at the old base. Simply put it was in such bad repair that it needed to be rebuilt from scratch. We used some of the marine ply I got cut in B&Q. Attached a new p...

I got a small Sheet of Marine Ply today in B&Q for the base. 9'' x 3'' Its 18mm thick so its nice and durable. I got them to cut it into 3, 3x3 squares. All I need now is the Formica from you Dave. I also got 3 big teflon slider pads that have a metal support and are perfect for the bottom of the ro...

All I can say is I do know you dont need any artistic skill to make astronomical obsevations. A few dots here and a shady line there is perfect for recording star positions, banding on planets and all that. Even observations of the moon is fine with simple lines and shapes. But like everything else ...

Wow. Thats some going Conn! Question. It's yourself that writes these each week is it not? I must say they are always very interesting. How do you come up with the topics!? By the way, I've been working away on adding the past ones to the website. It's a huge amount of work so it's gonna take some t...