Limerick Astronomy Club

We had some fine luck with the weather, it improved in the afternoon with a small bit of clouds when we arrived at the site at 7.30-45. This gave everyone enough time in the setting sun to comfortably set up their equipment, there was a good spread of dobs, refractors and SCTs there, we had a glance at the thin cresent moon in the far western horison as it set.
The sky had patchy clouds until about 9pm and then it cleared completely, no haze and with as dark a sky as we could have hoped for which is great since the site has a 360 degree perfectly flat horison. Robin Scagill gave the site a 9/10 in terms of darkness/horison, which is a great thumbs up.
The milkyway was ablaze through cygnus and could be easy seen right down through sagittarius, the teapot was easily visible and a number of good clusters were hunted there.
Many other deep sky views were had, the nebulae all popped into view, my favourites were the N. american, helix, californian and veil nebulae, and the globular cluster gave their usual stunning views, especially so as the seeing was very good with hardly and movement.

Jupiter was showing up well in the scopes with some great detail visible, the GRS became visible later on in the night. Uranus and Neptune were also spied on.

The wind became a little gustier as the night wore on, but wasnt too bad. We finished up at 3.15, tired and worn out.