International Observe the Moon Night Sat Sept 18th

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Frank Ryan
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International Observe the Moon Night Sat Sept 18th

Post by Frank Ryan » Mon Sep 13, 2010 2:14 pm

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Keep Saturday Night (the 18th Sept) free.
It's international Observe the Moon night
http://observethemoonnight.org/

If you want to take part in this, BRING YOUR SCOPE!
SAC will have the Club 10'' set up at O'Callaghans Strand at 8PM.
Set up with us!!!
The Moon will be well placed with a nice phase for observation then.
ALL THIS OF COURSE IS WEATHER PERMITTING!

See more local events here:
http://www.irishastronomy.org/cms/forum ... 5843#86148

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Post by Dave Lillis » Wed Sep 15, 2010 1:03 pm

lets hope the weather plays ball, I'll be bringing my camera.
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Post by Frank Ryan » Wed Sep 15, 2010 1:42 pm

Weather looks good this week but bad on sat.

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Post by Frank Ryan » Sat Sep 18, 2010 10:37 am

Weather looks bad. Clouds coming in and lots of em.
I'll still head in anyway.
I'll bring my 70 mm skylux.
Shur. You never know

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Post by stephen gleeson » Sat Sep 18, 2010 12:58 pm

would we get a bigger crowd on clancys strand as they pass going to the match ?

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Post by Frank Ryan » Sun Sep 19, 2010 8:29 am

Disaster of a night weather-wise.
Gerry said it was clear in Bruff and
when I got home is was clearing here in Ballycasey.
It's just pot luck as usual.
They really should make these international
events a week long. IMHO.

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