Moore Marathon

Roy Stewart · Post by **Roy Stewart** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 12:42 pm

Hey Guys...

I was checking out the Sky at Night website
and noticed that they'll be broadcasting for 55years
this year and to celebrate it they have a Moore Marathon..
It's were Sir Patrick Moore picked out 55 of his favourite
night sky objects and called it the Moore Marathon...

I think its something we should undertake as a club
and submit our results to the Sky at Night website
and who knows the club might even get a mention
on the May edition of the show...

Here is the link to the PDF file, Just take a look and let me know what ye think..

http://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/sites ... edForm.pdf

Dave Lillis · Post by **Dave Lillis** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 1:39 pm

yea, I'd seen this on the IFAS site, Carl O'Biernes is co-ordinating it here in Ireland. see
http://www.irishastronomy.org/index.php ... d=40#92938

now guys, I'm thinking of just doing this if we manage to have a club observing sesison, I dont want to set a date and be beaten by the weather. I dont want to commit a weekend to this in advance, only if we HAPPEN to have a clear night. This way it is no extra work/pressure/promises or commitment.

As PRO, Roy, would you be able to contact Carl and ask him what we need.
he's at carl@webtreatz.com

If we end up doing it on a GAM night, all the better.

Frank Ryan · Post by **Frank Ryan** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 1:47 pm

is there some way we could each do our own piece observing and then
add it all together? i cant open the pdf here at work.
whats the list!?

Roy Stewart · Post by **Roy Stewart** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 1:55 pm

Its a comprehensive enough list
made up of...

1- Naked Eye Objects

2- Bino Objects

3- Telescope Objects(ranging from easy to hard to spot objects)..

I'll get onto Carl right away and sort out what we
need as a club to do this..

Cheers Roy

Dave Lillis · Post by **Dave Lillis** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 2:06 pm

excellent, put up here what he says and any links to online forms/documents.

Frank Ryan · Post by **Frank Ryan** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 5:20 pm

yay!
astronomy stuff (Awesome) as opposed to
outreach / admin / committee stuff (Nawsome)

Dave Lillis · Post by **Dave Lillis** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 5:47 pm

yea exactly, I was thinking the same, normal stuff.

Roy Stewart · Post by **Roy Stewart** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 9:46 am

Hey Guy's...

Carl got back to me with what
we need to do the Moore Marathon..
I'll get to printinng them up and have
em ready to hand out at next months meeting.

How many do you think we'll need???

Cheers Roy

Dave Lillis · Post by **Dave Lillis** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 10:23 am

well, how about we keep it simple, print out one copy, bring them along to the GAM nights and we'll fill it in as we go along, we can all sign it when done,
how does that sound ?

Roy Stewart · Post by **Roy Stewart** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 11:32 am

Well it certainly beats doing
up about 20 copies as each
copy has about 15 pages..
So OK I'll print off 1 copy
and we'll go from there...

Cheers Roy