Limerick Astronomy Club

Dave,
Open to the public, but you have to book seats!

Guys, Check it out! 15/10/2011 10.00 and 14.00 Jean Monnet Lecture Theatre University of Limerick Meet NASA Astronaut Greg Johnson, Pilot of STS-134 Endeavour (June 2011) - the penultimate mission of NASA's Space Shuttle Programme. Greg, who has undertaken three separate missions to Space, will desc...

Hey Guys,
Have ye finished processing the images taken last night, can't wait to see the results!

Nice shot Frank, one of my favourite clusters!

Thanks for that Frank, I have the gear but never gave it a real try if I have to be honest with you. I never realised how much hard work goes into capturing and processing those AVI's to get a few images. I should have more patience when it comes to Planetary imaging, as I've always said, I perfer t...

Sounds good!

Ya Frank was watching the forecast last night, doesn't look good at all, oh well there's always the pub to fall back on?

Hi John,
Toolmaker done a smashing job on mine! he took the existing celestron bracket drilled and tapped the Telrad mount to it. its perfect!

me too Thanks for the cuppa Roy!

Great stuff Roy!

Ya great nights viewing Roy. The time flew by! Great to see Jupiter back again as well as seeing Neptune and Uranus for the first time! The moon was very nice as well, plenty to see along the terminator. Alot of nice double stars in Cygnus and Lyra. The ISS looked great shooting across the sky and t...

Would have loved to have seen it!

Nice one Roy!

Hi Dave,
Looks like programs are using diffrent tracker files. Diffrences in Latitude, longtitude and time are not the problem, that one is quite obvious to me.
I pulled down TLE data from Celes Trak and sucessfully imported data into satellite tracker.Its just .txt file with orbital data.

Hi Guys, Anyone know where I can get current satellite TLE data for any space junk that might be passing over Ireland. Scope is connected and tracking using satellite tracker,thanks Dave for the software! But there are differences between the satellites I see on Starry night and satellite tracker pr...