Limerick Astronomy Club

Hey Peter, If you want to look for a galaxy, you can always try M51, keep in mind that with a 4 inch refractor, all you'll see is a small fuzzy blob. The challenge isn't to eek out hubble space telescope views of these objects, the challenge is to find them and evaluate what you can see of them. Und...

Looks like there is big aurora activity in scandinavia.
There is another CME on the way, its due to hit in the next day or two.

Hi all, I've put together a map of the summer 2013 planetary conjunction, its in the "this months sky guide" page of the main website, Hopefully we'll get a chance to see some of this. http://www.shannonsideastronomyclub.com/2013_conjunction.htm http://www.shannonsideastronomyclub.com/images/summer_...

what if I spelt it Cassey lol

Thanks John, The astro gear is here to stay, so's the tv, I'll be selling the furniture first :) gosh so many names, celeste, cassy, selene, , could be a boy yet, thats a much tougher one tbh.... how about castor,,,, haha, dont think so, he'd get a rough time at school with that one between the ghos...

thanks man,
now I've a genuine reason to be up all night instead of been wrapped up warm asleep.

yip, I'll give you a hand with that, let me know on the boards here when you need the help.

heeeey,
I never got my tenner

yea, sounds like the
"the Mattel and Mars Bar Quick Energy Chocobot Hour"
a classic

Awesome, thanks for the link .

some spectacular CME's on the sun over the past 24 hours,
see
http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php ... &year=2013

Hey all, for all those with solar scope of solar filters, keep an eye out for the growing number of sunspots on the Sun, also keep an eye out for aurora as CME activity has increased abit. For aurura, have a look at the bottom of the clubs weather page for details, http://www.shannonsideastronomyclu...

Now there is an interesting idea, hadnt thought of that, or how about Buzz, since he is still alive. or how about Alcor, sounds like something out of he-man :), would you mess with anyone called Alcor ? lol the only real one I can think if is Andy, after Andromeda, then again Andromeda was a woman, ...

@Conn, very many thank for your generous offer of the of the castors. The base of the 12" is supported by 3 pads, so i'm guessing we would have to use 3 castors as well....... and contribute nicely to its steampunk look as well steampunk, I love it, haha, we need more brass though. ;) Seriously thou...

Lads, I saw how the 10 and 12" scopes were been used last week at the public observing nights and I have to say I was chuffed at how well they performed. :P I cant get over how sharp the views were through the 12" now that its optics were aligned using the new collimator, I'd now put it as been bett...